With Apple's WWDC show immediately sold out, those who failed to get tickets are getting creative.
A group of indies are running IndieDevLab in San Francisco during WWDC.
It also sold out, although apparently a limited selection of passes have just been released.
If you really want to get tickets for WWDC, however, your options seem limited. Apple is cracking down on people transfering tickets or selling them on, meaning that there are likely to be spare seats in the 'sold out' event.
Highlight the problem
Chinese publisher CocoaChina has taken an alternative route.
It's launched WWDCWaitList. It says the reason is to "track the scale of this issue and provide a potential solution to Apple dev community".
The system works as people who bought WWDC tickets but won't be attending (for whatever reason) fill in their email address. That's the supply part.
The demand part is if you want to buy at WWDC ticket, you can put your email into the system.
Let them swap
"We hope Apple will then refund people who have entered their Apple IDs here and ultimately utilize the returned tickets to satisfy those developers genuinely interested in WWDC," says CocoaChina, very hopefully.
At the moment, there are 25 people who say they have tickets they want to sell, with 251 potential buyers.
WWDC attendance is around 6,000.
[source: WWDCWaitList]
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