Apple’s annual lottery for WWDC tickets officially ended this morning at 10AM PST and lucky developers have started receiving confirmation emails this evening. The developers who were lucky enough to win an opportunity to the attend event have received emails in their inbox and their credits have been charged.
For developers who did not receive a notification from Apple regarding their WWDC ticket, the company says that some sessions throughout the event will be live streamed, while most will be available to watch on-demand.
A developer ticket to WWDC runs $1599 and the annual event is being held from June 8th to June 12th at Moscone West in San Francisco. Apple officially announced WWDC 2015 earlier this week, teasing that it will be the “epicenter of change” and that “the future of iOS and OS X” will be showcased.
We reported earlier this year that Apple plans to unveil iOS 9 this year, with a focus on performance improvements. Apple is also expected to announce its streaming music service this year, after showing off an all-new Music app in iOS 8.4. Other possible announcements include a Web TV service for Apple TV and the Watch SDK for developing native apps for the Apple Watch.
It’s unclear if Apple is still sending emails to developers who won a ticket to WWDC, so if you’ve yet to receive an email, don’t lose hope just yet.
GOT THE GOLDEN TICKET! #WWDC #WWDC2015 pic.twitter.com/tbLezTOAnf
— Raffy Rabin (@XPDeveloper) April 17, 2015
No #WWDC ticket for me.
Thanks Obama 😋
— Oktawian (oktawian@mastodon.social) (@nsmeme) April 17, 2015
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I’ve got a #WWDC ticket!!
— Satoshi Ebisawa ❄️ (@satococoa) April 17, 2015
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The suspense is killing me, people are now beginning to get their rejection email. I haven’t gotten anything!
“Gentlemen, I know how anxious you’ve all been during these last few days. But now I think I can safely say that your time and money have been well-spent. We’re about to witness the greatest miracle of the machine age. Based on the revolutionary Computonian Law of Probability, this machine will tell us the precise location of the 3 remaining golden tickets.”
Winners?! They’re paying $1599 for the privilege! Not exactly winning anything other than the right to hand Apple even more ridiculous amounts of money! $400 a day! Lucky them!
They’re more like idiotic customers than winners especially when all the seminars are available online straight afterwards anyway! All of them!
Unbelievable how blinded by the Apple cart these people are.
For people whose livelihood depends upon Apple technology, the opportunity to meet with Apple’s engineers is well worth the cost of admission. Most people come away from WWDC extremely energized: watching videos just does not have the same effect. Not everything comes down to dollars and cents.
All the major platforms charge. Microsoft Build is $2095. Google I/O is $900. Apple’s is in line.
Just like internet w-h-inners are blinded by their hate for Apple.
Are the tickets transferable? Can someone sell these winning tickets for profit?
I’m not in the industry but it does seem a bit odd to charge what I assume (by winning) are Apples most favoured developers for WWDC. Surely these same developers already add to the Apple money pile and it’s not like they need it as it’s loose change to Apple.