I'd try to find and solve one of the secret puzzles Google was hiding, to get a chance to buy a reserved ticket.
I find it amusing that giving money to Google is almost spoken in terms of privilege. "Today, Google will allow users to buy Google Glass for $1500" or in this case, solving a puzzle for the opportunity to buy a $900 ticket outside of the if-you-win-you-pay lottery.
More amusing is that I/O is a conference of how to use Google services and platforms[0]. Really, look at it. It's almost entirely talks on how to build products for their platforms and pay-to-use APIs.
The point you make is valid, but not unique to Google or its products. People yearned for WWDC tickets (a conference about how to use Apple services and platforms) and stand in line for the privilege of getting the latest and greatest Apple product.
You might say that it's a sign of success in the tech world when your brand builds this much of a following.
There is also a lot of content at I/O that's generally applicable to developing for the web- when I was there in 2012 most of the sessions I attended were on doing cool things with HTML5 and modern JS libraries. There's also a lot on Go, Dart, and general development practices.
More amusing is that I/O is a conference of how to use Google services and platforms[0]. Really, look at it. It's almost entirely talks on how to build products for their p
platforms and pay-to-use APIs.
Presumably the developers still get their money's worth. If /when they don't soon or later these conferences will be full of empty chairs. So the question each person asks: "what do I gain by it," not what Google gains by it.
The developers who manage to successfully get a ticket through the lottery*.
Why are the two coupled anyway? That's a huge issue with the WWDC and it's becoming an issue here. If you want developers, don't offer "the next big thing" in consumer electronics to anyone who attends, then leave registration open for everyone.
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I find it amusing that giving money to Google is almost spoken in terms of privilege. "Today, Google will allow users to buy Google Glass for $1500" or in this case, solving a puzzle for the opportunity to buy a $900 ticket outside of the if-you-win-you-pay lottery.
More amusing is that I/O is a conference of how to use Google services and platforms[0]. Really, look at it. It's almost entirely talks on how to build products for their platforms and pay-to-use APIs.
[0] https://developers.google.com/events/io/sessions
The point you make is valid, but not unique to Google or its products. People yearned for WWDC tickets (a conference about how to use Apple services and platforms) and stand in line for the privilege of getting the latest and greatest Apple product.
You might say that it's a sign of success in the tech world when your brand builds this much of a following.
There is also a lot of content at I/O that's generally applicable to developing for the web- when I was there in 2012 most of the sessions I attended were on doing cool things with HTML5 and modern JS libraries. There's also a lot on Go, Dart, and general development practices.
More amusing is that I/O is a conference of how to use Google services and platforms[0]. Really, look at it. It's almost entirely talks on how to build products for their p platforms and pay-to-use APIs.
Presumably the developers still get their money's worth. If /when they don't soon or later these conferences will be full of empty chairs. So the question each person asks: "what do I gain by it," not what Google gains by it.
The developers who manage to successfully get a ticket through the lottery*.
Why are the two coupled anyway? That's a huge issue with the WWDC and it's becoming an issue here. If you want developers, don't offer "the next big thing" in consumer electronics to anyone who attends, then leave registration open for everyone.