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.