Google I/O 2013 Registration Sells Out In 49 Minutes

Re:Google I/O 2013 Registration Sells Out In 49 Minutes by objclxt on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @11:47AM (#5369201)

> Despite all that, last year WWDC was sold out in under 2 hours.

...and I'm willing to bet that if Apple announced the time WWDC tickets went on sale in advance, as Google do, it would sell out a lot faster.

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Re:Google I/O 2013 Registration Sells Out In 49 Minutes by Samuel_Michon on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @11:52AM (#5369228)

I doubt it. Just as with I/O, the ordering system is the bottleneck. If the systems could manage it, both events would sell out in mere minutes.

Recap of WWDC 2012 ticket sales: for the first time, Apple didn't pre-announce the WWDC dates or when ticket sales would start. People were quite upset because it was so sudden and because it was so early in the day – sales began at 8:30AM EST. Per John Gruber, on the day: "Sold out in two hours, before the U.S. west coast even woke up." http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/04/25/wwdc-2012

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