I still can remember my first WWDC in 2002 in San Jose in a far smaller venture than the Moscone center. That was far from being sold out. So getting a ticket was as easy as dropping a stack of money on a table. That was the year Steve Jobs buried MacOS 9 and the interest in Mac OS X was rather smallish at the time. (Developer relations actually phoned individual developers asking them, if they don't want to buy a ticket)

Admittedly in 2002 I was invited as a speaker, since I did some of the engineering labs so it was free for me.

The first sold-out WWDC was actually in 2008 (in the much larger Moscone Center). Nowadays it's only a movie being shown to the public, so why bother, going over there for just that.

If China re-integrates it's rebellious region back into its country we'll have far bigger problems than a few chip manufacturing plants. 
Read: 

2034: A Novel of the Next World War

 Then you no longer care about TSMC.

Right makes perfect sense. I try to get things done, am stressed already and then the iPad wants to p*ss me off with this useless dialog window, preferably modal. 

Kind of makes me wonder how such an iPad reacts when it hits the concrete wall right next to my desk, when it has been thrown with all the force I can generate at that moment. 

I know iPads are not the biggest sellers, but this could be THE biggest sales push for these things in years.

Wow $1000 for an old Apple Badge. I should have kept mine when I left Apple.

They are probably just embarrassed, that they were caught copying an ad from LG from 2008 https://boingboing.net/2024/05/09/apple-blatantly-rips-off-2008-lg-phone-ad-in-latest-ipad-commercial.html
Apple Ads used to be good and creative, but due to cost cutting that needs to suffer as well.