Tickets for WWDC 2013 Sell Out in Two Minutes

After going on sale at 10:00 AM Pacific Time today, tickets for Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco have already sold out in two minutes.

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WWDC has sold out increasingly quickly in recent years, and this year in particular saw a massive rush of developers ready to purchase at the launch time due to Apple having announced the on-sale time a day in advance. Previously, Apple had begun sales at the moment it announced details on the annual conference, but with last year's tickets selling out in under two hours, some developers found themselves out of luck before they had even woken up for the day.

WWDC 2011 sold out in under 12 hours, while the 2010 edition took eight days. This marks the sixth straight year that WWDC has sold out, a streak that began in 2008.

With the increasingly quick ticket sellouts, there have been calls to increase the size of WWDC. Apple would, however, be hard pressed to do so given that a major focus of the conference is on assisting developers with their apps and Apple needs to have enough engineers on hand to provide that hands-on help.

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Top Rated Comments

Andy-V Avatar
156 months ago
I'd say one event a year no longer suffices.
Score: 25 Votes (Like | Disagree)
singhjeet29 Avatar
156 months ago
Wow!

Next year 30 seconds?
Score: 24 Votes (Like | Disagree)
NoNothing Avatar
156 months ago
And their server handled it. People can say Apple knows nothing of "cloud" and servers but they can handle this type of load much better than Google ever has with Google I/O.
Score: 19 Votes (Like | Disagree)
timborama Avatar
156 months ago
I got my ticket, but for those that didn't...
Score: 15 Votes (Like | Disagree)
JGIGS Avatar
156 months ago
I was debating to see whether it would make sense financially for me to go and decided to give it a shot....and failed, I logged in at 1pm EST....looks like i should have pre logged in because typing my email/password took too long :(

On the bright side you saved $1600 ;)
Score: 13 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Rudy69 Avatar
156 months ago
I was debating to see whether it would make sense financially for me to go and decided to give it a shot....and failed, I logged in at 1pm EST....looks like i should have pre logged in because typing my email/password took too long :(
Score: 13 Votes (Like | Disagree)