On April 25, Apple put the tickets for sale on sale WWDC 2013 si in just 2 minutes, or 71 seconds, he managed to sell approximately 4500-5000 tickets to developers. The speed with which the tickets were sold, but also the fact that Apple started calling developers to give them the ordered tickets have raised some alarm signals, and the creator of Instagram offers some hypotheses Interesting. Practically, many developers wanted to buy tickets, but when they tried to complete the order, they encountered an error page that soon turned into the Sold Out message.
Apple started calling those developers telling them that their orders are valid even though they failed to buy the tickets through the website and it seems that many people were contacted in this way. Separately from these tickets offered to those who failed to complete an order, Apple began offering tickets to developers who contacted the company asking for additional tickets, and about 1000 tickets were reportedly sold in this way. Considering how Apple continued to sell the tickets, what happened in the two minutes that the website put the products up for sale?
According to Marco Arment, somewhere in the infrastructure of the Apple servers, something would have triggered the closure of the command system due to the very large number of connections, the Apple servers not being able to cope with the traffic. If this hypothesis is true, then the headlines that appeared later on the Internet presented the WWDC as a highly sought-after event that sells very well, but it is hard to believe that Apple would have sought to block everything quickly, considering that the developers they were trying to get to the event anyway and there weren't enough tickets.
A second hypothesis would be that Apple would have increased the number of people it receives during the events, so the crowd will be even bigger, but theoretically there should be more happy developers. Whatever the cause of Apple's problems with selling tickets for WWDC 2013, we remain with the fact that the event is extremely popular.
