In 2012, all of the tickets for Google's
I/O developer conference sold out
in under 30 minutes. Last year? It took about
49 minutes. Don't worry about waking up early to register
this year, though: the folks in Mountain View are
running a lottery
instead. Google will take applications for I/O tickets from April 8 to
10, and will randomly reach out to lucky applicants not long after that.
Honestly though, your odds of nabbing a ticket are still dicey - the
event usually plays host to about 5,500 developers, and demand for
admission is through the roof... thanks in part to all the hardware swag
Google gives out. If you have neither the time nor the spare dough to
schlep out to San Francisco this summer, expect Google to stream its
announcements and developer sessions on YouTube too.