"George Graves" <gmgraves2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:0001HW.C45195A800043309F01846D8@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Wed, 14 May 2008 23:22:49 -0700, Steve de Mena wrote
> (in article <9aednTAa0PUnS7bVnZ2dnUVZ_hninZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>):
>
>> 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_500
>>>> 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
>
> Over 5000 attendees is an artificially low attendance cap? How do you
know
> this? Have you access to the event's capacity numbers? Size of session
> rooms
> and auditoriums in the venue chosen? Total amount of collateral produced
> in
> anticipation of the numbers of attendees? Without being privy to this
kind
> of
> info, I'd have to say that you don't know what you're talking about.
Mind
> you, I'm not saying that its impossible that you are right, I'm saying
> that
> you, like me and almost everyone else has NO IDEA what constitutes WWDC
> being
> "sold out" this year.
Why didn't they simply get a bigger place?
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