Google I/O 2013

I/O used to be worthwhile, 2-3 years ago, there were tons of technical talks I was interested in.<p>Now it's just a dog &#38; pony consumer technology show, and Google has so many irons in the fire that each technology only gets a few, if any, talks.<p>They should go back to having a true developer conference, and have some other conference for the big wigs to play Steve Jobs.<p>...but of course I'll try and get a ticket this year.

If they don't want demand to be insane, maybe they should stop giving away so much hardware.<p>2012 free hardware: Samsung Galaxy Nexus ($300?), Asus Nexus 7 ($200), Nexus Q ($300), Samsung Chromebox ($330)<p>That's for a ticket price of $900.

I really want to see more Go talks this year, the Panel with Rob Pike and Ken Thompson was bad-ass.

Unfortunate, looks like I won't be going this year like I planned. It's overlapping with BlackBerry Live, that goes from May 14-16 in Orlando. Would've liked to have gone to both, since I love both platforms. Looks like I'll just have to catch the Web casts again.

Can someone who has been explain the value of attending?

I hope no startups that I invested in bother trying to go to Google I/O.

There's certainly a profitable startup idea somewhere that targets improving ticket sales and purchases for hot items. Google itself is absolutely miserable in this area, and I think most other large sites are as well.

Wish they would rent all of Moscone center instead of just Moscone West. I clicked to buy a ticket the second it opened last time and still didn't get one through that means. I was lucky enough to win a coding contest for my ticket the year before and work for an OEM the next year, who seemed to get some pity tickets because they kicked all the OEMs out to make more room for fake living room setups for the Q.

Prediction: Google IO will be heavily focused on Google Glass and they give everyone at the conference a free pair.<p>Hope they do this because I want to see some amazing Google Glass apps when they launch this year.

I wonder what the odds are for a free Pixel this year.

How does Google verify Academic tickets?