Apple are charging you to watch WWDC videos.

http://developer.apple.com/products/videos.html

by britman • 17 years ago

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Charging isn't really going to help developer adoption.Seems very short sighted.

rufo• 17 years ago

Just like they do every year...?

EDIT: Also, if you went to WWDC, you already get free access.

nailer2• 17 years ago

It still feels weird to me for a company to charge for instructional videos on their own platform. Google doesnt' do it with Android - there are heaps of tutorials on YouTube coverring different APIs. Microsoft doesn't do it for their tools either. Google want to sell Android apps, Microsoft wants to sell development tools, Apple want to sell iPhones. Why charge?

klaut• 17 years ago

Because Apple knows that people will pay.

jstevens85• 17 years ago

Apple is only charging for videos from WWDC. They provide a whole bunch of free iPhone development video tutorials if you sign up as an iPhone developer (which is free also). I'm not sure why they don't provide WWDC stuff for free, perhaps they're worried that it would discourage people from turning up to the conference.

jemmons2• 17 years ago

Do you have any idea how many man-hours go into the preparation of WWDC talks? Sure, other people may give away their development presentations. But then, they're not (IMHO, etc, etc) nearly as informative, polished, or well produced as standard WWDC fare.

Like seemingly everything related to Apple, if you don't perceive -- or just aren't interested in paying for -- the difference in quality, don't buy it. But also please at least consider not insulting the intelligence of those who do and are by claiming the cost isn't justifiable.

eloop• 17 years ago

Just like rag trade fashion costs.

lpgauth• 17 years ago

Of course you have to pay, what would be the point of paying 1500$ for WWDC if you can get all the session videos for free?

plinkplonk• 17 years ago

"what would be the point of paying 1500$ for WWDC if you can get all the session videos for free?"

other paid for conferences do release videos of the talks so this argument isn't very persuasive.

silencio2• 17 years ago

the labs. the people. the other attendees. the fact that you can actually go up to an engineer who worked on something that has been bothering you for weeks and at least leave with a workaround, if not a full on fix for it. that alone to me is well worth more than $1500.

Apple are charging you to watch WWDC videos.

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