Snit wrote:
> "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.
Apple should have been able to anticipate the size. They do research I am
sure. And if they need a bigger place I am sure they can rent more space.
No need for the claims of being sold out.
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