Mac OS Ken: 04.26.2013

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7 • 996 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2013

⏱️ 13 minutes

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WWDC 2013 Tickets: Gone in 90 Seconds Apple Offers a Number of Developers a Second Chance at WWDC 2013 Tickets WWDC Alternative - AltWWDC - to Run at Same Time as WWDC in San Francisco iPad Takes Top Spot in Latest JD Power Customer Satisfaction Survey for Tablets Sprint Sells 1.5-Million iPhones in 1Q CY2013 AT&T Activates 4.8-Million iPhones in 1Q CY2013; iPhone Accounts for 80-Percent of Smartphones Sold in 1Q Apple Store Berlin to Open on Friday 3 May Apple Ordered to Pay $118,000 to Three Chinese Authors for Copyright Infringement Get your free audio book at http://audiblepodcast.com/macosken

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0:09.2	Start today with a free audio book at Audible dot com slash MacoS can. This is
0:25.0	Mac OS Kim.
0:35.8	W. W. D. W. D. D.C. tickets gone in 90 seconds. A few developers get a second shot, and the iPad is still top of the tablet heap.
0:36.8	It's Friday, April 26, 2013.
0:39.4	I'm Kan Ray, and this is news from MacO can brought to you by yours truly and
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1:07.0	One of the biggest complaints about tickets for W.W.D.C. 2012 was that nobody knew when they would go on sale. When they did,
1:15.4	developers saw them go from surprise availability to sold out in 61 minutes.
1:21.3	Likely to reduce such complaints this year, Apple gave developers a minutes. Daylight Time. 5,000 tickets went on sale for Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference 2013, with all 5,000 sold
1:37.8	out by 102 PM Eastern Daylight Time.
1:42.8	To give you an idea of how much, how much has changed in the last five years, Fortune points out that in 2008
1:49.7	it took Apple 61 days to sell out W.W. D.C.
1:54.8	Put a more amusing way, W. D.C. 2008 sold out in 87,840 minutes.
2:01.5	W.W. D.C. 2013 sold out in one and a half minutes.
2:07.0	Kind of.
2:08.0	Four or five hours after the tickets came and went, Apple started calling some developers yesterday who didn't get tickets
2:15.2	offering them a second chance. Cult of Mac had word of a few such calls.
2:20.2	One registered member of Apple's developer program told them how it went,
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