On Thu, 15 May 2008 08:12:36 -0700, Steve de Mena wrote
(in article <jt2dnVbG9NJ7z7HVnZ2dnUVZ_j6dnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>):
> George Graves wrote:
>> On Thu, 15 May 2008 00:14:02 -0700, Steve de Mena wrote
>> (in article <E4-dnfUAnNknf7bVnZ2dnUVZ_jGdnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>):
>>
>>> Chance Furlong wrote:
>>>> In article <9aednTAa0PUnS7bVnZ2dnUVZ_hninZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>>>> Steve de Mena <steve@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Chance Furlong wrote:
>>>>>> In article <jim-F22FA6.18235214052008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>>>>>> Jim <jim@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> For the first time in its history.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/05/14/wwdc_sold_out_with_over_5
>>>>>>> 00
>>>>>>> 0_attendees.html
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference, scheduled for June 9-11,
has
>>>>>>> sold out for the first time ever. Attendance at the event has
rapidly
>>>>>>> grown as interest in the Mac platform has snowballed in pro****tion
to
>>>>>>> rapid new sales of Macs.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Over 5000 attendees.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Read on.
>>>>>> Sold out? I wonder what Gates, Ballmer, and the resident Wintrolls
will
>>>>>> have to say about it. Cuss and discuss, Wintrolls.
>>>>> They set an artifically low attendance cap so they could proclaim it
>>>>> "Sold Out?"
>>>>>
>>>>> Steve
>>>> Prove the artifically low attendance cap, Steve.
>>> Other conferences, such as the two I mentioned, both in single
>>> locations, were able to handle more people.
>>>
>>> LinuxWorld, also at Moscone Center, has had 10,000 people attend.
>>>
>>> Steve
>>
>> Dolt! Linux World is a TRADE SHOW, like Mac World (last January they
had
>> over
>> 20,000 attendees). Not a developer conference. Do you even KNOW the
>> difference between a trade show where people walk through exhibits and
a
>> developer conference where people spend thousands of dollars to attend
and
>> set through sessions and cl***** on how to write software and hardware
>> drivers and use SDKs and HDKs from morning to night? Pretty silly
analogy
>> if
>> you ask me. It's like saying "Only 5000 attendees? More than that
attended
>> the Giants baseball game last night." That is about as relevant as
what
>> you
>> just said.
>
> Did you forget the two shows I mentioned, "EMC World" and "VMWorld".
> Each had 100s of technical presentations and workshops, just like
> WWDC. Attendance, 9,000 and 7,000 respectively.
Show me, in the thread quoted above, where you mention either of thse two
things? You only mentioned a trade show.
>
> Sorry if I am not "impressed" like most of you that Apple's poor or
> non existent planning resulted in WWDC being "Sold Out".
Nobody really cares what your irrational hatred of Apple and your
knee-jerk
reactions to anything positive about the company are "impressed" by. The
fact
that you can't figure out what would limit the number of attendees to a
conference like this speaks volumes.
|
