Apple now selling access to WWDC presentations via iTunes

[AppleInsider]

Apple has announced the availability of iPhone and Mac development sessions, recorded at this year's WWDC, for members of its Apple Developer Connection programs, including the free ADC Online and Registered iPhone developers.

Premier ADC members and WWDC attendees already have access to the session videos, but members of the Select ADC, free Online ADC and $99 Student Member programs for Mac OS X development, as well as the separate $99 Registered iPhone developer circle, have to pay.

Buying access to the WWDC sessions costs either $299 for the iPhone or Mac sessions, or $499 for the complete set of both. A full WWDC ticket costs $1595, with a $1295 early bird offer typically sold through April. In both of the last two years however, WWDC has sold out, making attendance impossible for many.

By selling access to the sessions for $500, Apple is reserving the value of attending. Some developers report that they find more value in talking to engineers at scheduled lab sessions rather than sitting through the lecture sessions that usually end with a brief question and answer session.

In previous years, Apple has lagged behind in making sessions available in iTunes after the event. This year, the company has managed to make its WWDC catalog of sessions available within a month and a half, its fastest turnaround yet.

To order sessions, users must sign up for one of the ADC programs, including the free Online ADC package. After buying access, Apple forwards the user an iTunes provisioning key that enables downloading and viewing of the session packages' videos and Keynote slide presentations.

The WWDC sessions require iTunes 8.2 and enough disk space to accommodate the downloads, with the combined package weighing in at 30GB. The Mac session package itself is 13GB, and iPhone session package is 17GB.

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[nace33]

So, does this mean that those of us who are ADC (Select and Premium) will get access to the 2008 WDC Videos for free? Currently, I can only download the 2007 WDC Videos.

[John the Geek]

The 2009 videos were available before June ended. It was less than 3 weeks, not a month and a half.

[GQB]

I wonder if they'll post the "Apple Store" session at which the presenters fled the room before the QA?

[Abster2core]

Originally Posted by nace33

So, does this mean that those of us who are ADC (Select and Premium) will get access to the 2008 WDC Videos for free? Currently, I can only download the 2007 WDC Videos.

If you are a paid up ADC Premier Member or if you held a WWDC 2009 E-ticket, the videos are free. http://developer.apple.com/products/videos.html

[nace33]

Originally Posted by Abster2core

If you are an ADC Premier Member or if you held a WWDC 2009 E-ticket, the videos are free.

I am just a Select Member. I don't even see the videos available for purchase anymore.

[itistoday]

After paying a good amount to be a "Select" member, I have access to the dev seeds of SL, but no access to these videos without paying more? What if I only want to watch a single session? Still gotta pay for all of them, huh? Pretty lame Apple, why not do it iTunes style? That would make a whole lot more sense, make us devs happy, and you'd probably make more $$ that way. No way am I going to pay for all of them when I only want to see one or two.

[Chintan100]

If only they were priced at 0.99 $ each.

[ascii]

Wow, that was quick. I remember last year it took several months before they were available.

Apple's got to be nice to it's developers now, lest they defect to Google OS!

[ascii]

Originally Posted by Chintan100

If only they were priced at 0.99 $ each.

I have bought these video sets twice before. They're definitely worth more than that. They have excellent production quality and good technical knowledge.

The main problem with last year's set was that several of the presenters were quite obnoxious/up themselves, I just couldn't watch them all the way through.

[al_bundy]

Originally Posted by itistoday

After paying a good amount to be a "Select" member, I have access to the dev seeds of SL, but no access to these videos without paying more? What if I only want to watch a single session? Still gotta pay for all of them, huh? Pretty lame Apple, why not do it iTunes style? That would make a whole lot more sense, make us devs happy, and you'd probably make more $$ that way. No way am I going to pay for all of them when I only want to see one or two.

If you a Microsoft dev you would pay for Msdn and all dev events they hold

[Abster2core]

Originally Posted by iPhone1982

It's called Apple Tax. You really should be used to it by now.

Get off it.

Just what entitlement does anybody have over any of us who have paid our share and without that, nothing would be available.

Just for your information, when Apple brought out the Mac in 1984, MacWrite and MacPaint were included. MacPaint 2 was introduced at $125, an upgrade was $25. A significantly low pricing policy that Jobs insisted on vs the $500 plus all the others were charging for their DOS software.

A Premiere member pays a heck of a lot more for more and in fact, their WWDC ticket and materials out of it are included. Just why anybody else is entitled to get any of these videos and sample code, etc., for free really behooves me.

@ itistoday
And why anybody, particularly a Select member, would think that getting the odd snippet or two isn't really serious or a f* liar. Or are you a genius that wants to be a neurosurgeon via a correspondence school or reading the table of contents in Coles Notes?

@ nacee33
Are you sure you are a Select member. I would think you would know how to navigate the tabs. http://developer.apple.com/products/membership.html

[wilco]

Originally Posted by Abster2core

Just why anybody else is entitled to get any of these videos and sample code, etc., for free really behooves me.

You don't know what words mean, do you?

[OC4Theo]

Why should same people who forked up money to go to this conference, have to pay again to see the sessions they couldn't.

Apple is wrong here because, that's taking advantage of people.

[palter]

Originally Posted by OC4Theo

Why should same people who forked up money to go to this conference, have to pay again to see the sessions they couldn't.

Apple is wrong here because, that's taking advantage of people.

If you attended the conference, you get the videos for free.

[Abster2core]

Originally Posted by wilco

You don't know what words mean, do you?

behoove as in "to confuse"

[Abster2core]

Originally Posted by OC4Theo

Why should same people who forked up money to go to this conference, have to pay again to see the sessions they couldn't.

Apple is wrong here because, that's taking advantage of people.

What the hell are you talking about? If you went, you get the videos for free.

Again, "If you are a paid up ADC Premier Member* or if you held a WWDC 2009 E-ticket, the videos are free."

* All ADC Premier Members automatically get a 'free' WWDC ticket as part of their membership.

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

[wilco]

Originally Posted by Abster2core

behoove as in "to confuse"

[ascii]

Originally Posted by iPhone1982

: to be necessary, proper, or advantageous for <it behooves us to go>

Maybe he was thinking of "befuddle."

[hypercommunist]

Originally Posted by ascii

Maybe he was thinking of "befuddle."

Bewilder?

[Abster2core]

Originally Posted by hypercommunist

Bewilder?

I'll take that one.

[itistoday]

Originally Posted by Abster2core

@ itistoday
And why anybody, particularly a Select member, would think that getting the odd snippet or two isn't really serious or a f* liar. Or are you a genius that wants to be a neurosurgeon via a correspondence school or reading the table of contents in Coles Notes?

Pardon me, but could you say that again in English?

[timgriff84]

Originally Posted by al_bundy

If you a Microsoft dev you would pay for Msdn and all dev events they hold

Msdn subscriptions are only for the software. All the videos etc are free!

Just like apple to charge people to learn how to produce for there platform dispite the fact that if people didn't make software for macs then nobody would buy them.

[justflybob]

Originally Posted by itistoday

Pardon me, but could you say that again in English?

Ummm, (that's for YOU, Wilco )

If you cannot comprehend Abster2core's comment, then it was more than likely directed at folks like yourself?

Just sayin'