Apple Treats Student Developers As 3rd Class Citizens (updated)
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Since arriving in San Francisco on Friday I have been pumped for the Steve Jobs Keynote on Monday morning. I’ve spent a bit of time planning my Monday morning, afterall the keynote is the main event of the week.
Today when picking up my WWDC badge and goodie bag I was informed that all students will be declined entry to the keynote and re-directed to an over flow room. I flew half way around the world and will now be forced to once again watch the keynote on a TV screen.
NOT! HAPPY! APPLE!
update
Upon entering Moscone West yesterday all of the students were sent off to wait in a room downstairs. We weren’t allowed out of that room until about 10.10am. When we were finally allowed out we were directed to the same over-flow rooms as everyone else, only the keynote had already started. I came in just as the Harry Potter demo was finishing.
June 10th, 2007 at 6:06 pm
I agree, even though I paid four times as much as you did to attend, with my own money, students are important to the Macintosh platorm and you should be allowed to have a chance to get to the keynote.
It seems though that this year will see record attendance. I was asked to get at 6AM in line if I wanted to be able to see the keynote. That seems to indicate that WWDC 2007 will be very successul indeed. Don’t worry. You will have fun.
June 10th, 2007 at 11:21 pm
The conference will be fun regardless, but a major kick start has always been the keynote. It is disappointing (assuming this is true) that they’ve chosen to deny Students the authentic keynote experience.
June 12th, 2007 at 8:24 am
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June 23rd, 2007 at 5:24 am
I agree Apple should have told student developers earlier. Nothing worse than having your positive expectations smashed. OTOH, I think that they didn’t let students into the main room this year was OK. FWIW, many of us developers (including me) ended up in the overflow room several minutes late, as well (barely saw the end of the “I’m a PC”-guy intro movie). So I guess it was mainly a problem getting the people into the rooms in time.
For other, less kind thoughts on some complaints made by fellow students on Student-Dev, I’ve blogged those at http://www.zathras.de/angelweb/blog-wrong-sense-of-entitlement.htm
June 24th, 2007 at 11:43 am
I totally agree with ‘Huibert’ “students are important to the Macintosh platorm” and to scorn them with such a raw deal with what was otherwise a great conference was pretty bad. Hopefully they will not do this next year, could there be some sort of student petition?