Tickets are now limited to 1 per person, or 5 per organization, which should help with scalping problems from previous years:<p><a href="https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/tickets/" rel="nofollow">https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/tickets/</a><p>It's going to be a tight squeeze - most of the hotel space is already filled in the city due to the US Open taking place over a superset of these dates.
I don't understand why they don't offer a second class of "virtual tickets" where you get the same access to prerelease software and live streaming of sessions. As far as I can tell there are 3 "decoupled" reasons to attend wwdc: 1. Sessions and info, 2. Asking real apple employees questions, and 3. Meeting other devs/socializing.<p>I know lots of people that currently just do #3 without a ticket. Similarly #1 becomes possible for everyone after they release the videos. So really the only genuine reason to attend is #2 -- real deal access to apple devs. Under this perspective it seems less likely there would be such frenzied demand if everyone had a shot of viewing the sessions and getting the redacted info at the same time. It would also save a lot of people the need to buy a plane ticket and hotel on top of this already expensive endeavor, if all they want is to see sessions.<p>So basically, imagine something like a $500 virtual wwdc pass where you get a live stream, and a $1600 "Pro" pass where you get the perks of being there in person.
iOS6 should be quite an event - assuming everyone on iOS5 does the simple OTA update, it will be one of the biggest and fastest adoptions of a new OS ever.<p>I'm really interested in what new features might leverage that. To some extent, iMessage is the best example so far, instantly adding features to text conversations between iOS users.
A more complete iCloud SDK? Something about the logo that makes me think of this image:<p><a href="http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/4f96e37b69beddd210000055/google-drive-demo-video.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/4f96e37b69beddd2100...</a>
I see a bunch of CPUs. I predict some upgrades on the iMac line.<p>Also Rounded Rects are everywhere, <a href="http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Round_Rects_Are_Everywhere.txt" rel="nofollow">http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Round_Rects_Are_E...</a>
Opening tickets at 5:30 PST is a huge dick move. I woke up to 3 text messages about WWDC tickets, jumped on my computer and found them all sold out. Now I'm probably going to have to spend twice as much for a ticket.
The logo hints at differently sized apps or elements - I'm thinking of something retina/resolution independence related.<p>Retina display MacBooks and iMacs, for example.