weedhopper wrote:
> "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?
You mean like scheduling some overflow sessions into Moscone North and
South, which are mostly free during WWDC (which is only using Moscone
West)? That would make too much sense, and regardless, we aren't
allowed to question's Apple wisdom here.
Steve
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