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Thats the thing that sucks about such events; $900 is very expensive.

If anyone wants to sponsor a fellow HNer, I'll give you a bunch of digital Karma :)

Doesn't the free phones pay for it? I'd suppose those early limited edition devices are worth more than the ticket.

The freebies last year (Galaxy Tab 10.1, Chromebook, verizon hotspot) more than outweighed the ticket price and airfare. Depending on which session you went to (which meant more freebies - arduino kits, more phones, etc), you could make a solid profit off a trip to I/O.

I'm curious at $900 of just how much they plan to give out this time.

Yeah, you figure at that price they're going to give out heads-up display glasses or something ridiculously cool like that. That was my first thought, anyway.

I'm hoping for a self-driving car giveaway myself

2011 aprox. $1100 and 2010 like $800

They might be worth the price of admission squared. It simply doesn't matter if the cost of that admission is out of reach. I worry that an ever increasing ticket price will put this event, if it hasn't already, squarely in the realm of corporate-sponsored attendance.

Cheaper than WWDC and it's likely you'll get a bunch of free hardware.

what kind of hardware?

Which means any healthcare related company isn't likely to attend, since this "free hardware" is against gift restrictions relating to healthcare related businesses.

I don't see why it would be -- couldn't you characterize it as development kit? I assume it belongs to the employer not to the attendee, but that's just a company rule. I thought the rule was you couldn't pay "kickbacks", not that you couldn't receive them, and a phone is hardly a healthcare service itself anyway.

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They didn't get rich by giving stuff away.

2010 - http://www.google.com/events/io/2010/gift-faq.html 2011 - http://androidandme.com/2011/05/carriers/verizon/samsung-and...

Apparently, they did get rich by giving stuff away...

The parent talked about Apple, not Google. But that post is now deleted.

Actually, I was making a play on words (typos really) where SteveJabs said one thing and I called him out for being the founder of Appel, asking him to be my benefactor.

It was poorly received as I dont think people saw that SteveJabs and Appel were both in parody...

No, I understood (also the Appel misspelling).

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