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I find the title kind of exaggerated considering Google I/O sold out in less than an hour.

Google I/O got sold out because every body who got the ticket knew that they are going to get a latest android phone which is priced higher than the ticket price! Definitely a big motivational incentive to hit the buy button.

Not true for all attendees but probably for a good percentage.

To say that attendees know they will be getting the latest Android phone is a little presumptuous. That'd be like saying if I wanted a new car, all I need to do is be an audience member on Oprah.

Have all audience members on Oprah for the past 3 years been given cars?

The title is just a statement of how long it took to sell out, "WWDC sold out in ten hours." — tell me where the exaggeration is in that sentence.

I feel that the fact that OP mentioned the time, it was supposed to be read as a grand feat, which it wasn't. But if I'm wrong then I'm wrong.

10 hours might not seem like a "grand feat" but if I remember well, last year it took over a week for the tickets to be sold out...

It sure is a grand feat. Could you explain why you think that it isn’t?

In 2009 Google I/O was sold out only after ninety days and Apple’s WWDC was sold out only after more than thirty days. In 2010 both conferences sold out only after a few days.

That both conferences now sell out in substantially less than a day is newsworthy and a grand feat.

While it did sell out in less than an hour, you're exaggerating because that doesn't include the ample time offered to previous attendees beforehand.

http://phandroid.com/2011/01/31/google-io-registration-opens...

2008 marked the first year that WWDC ever sold out (they capped tickets at 5000).

2009 sold out in two months

2010 sold out in one week

2011 sold out in half a day.

And JSConf in ~40 minutes.

Concerts routinely sell out in minutes so Apple has nothing on this!

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