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?
Or get a bigger place once they saw how quickly they were selling out.
Imagine the headlines of them needing to get a bigger place.
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