"weedhopper" <whopper@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> stated in post
354Xj.20826$C8.20570@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
on 5/15/08 4:58 PM:
>
> "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?
Did they anticipate that they would be sold out? It would be even better
news for them to say that they broke all records and had to get a bigger
place to match the growing crowds.
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