If you’re lucky enough to get an invite to Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference this June, make sure you don’t turn up at Moscone West with your selfie stick.
Apple’s information page for the event confirms that selfie sticks and similar apparatus will not be allowed inside the venue or within the Yerba Buena Gardens, so if you really must take pictures of your own face, you’ll have to do it the old-fashioned way.
“You are not permitted to make audio or audiovisual recordings of WWDC or take professional photographic or video equipment, or wearable recording devices into Moscone West or Yerba Buena Gardens,” reads Apple’s rules.
“In addition, you may not use selfie sticks or similar monopods within Moscone West or Yerba Buena Gardens.”
The rules also ban devices like Google Glass, which have a built-in camera and would therefore be considered “wearable recording devices.” However, iPhones and iPads are allowed, so if you get the chance to snap a selfie with Tim Cook, you can pull out one of those instead.
Other things you cannot do at WWDC include smoking e-cigarettes (and obviously real cigarettes) within 20 feet of the lobby doors, and soliciting or selling items or services.
Source: Apple
Via: Chris Welch
Killian Bell is a freelance writer based in the U.K. He has an interest in all things tech and also covers Android over at CultofAndroid.com. You can follow him on Twitter via @killianbell.
10 responses to “Your selfie stick isn’t welcome at WWDC”
Sounds like they are not permitting anything outside of camera phones or point and shoots so why exactly are you singling out selfie sticks?
This is good. Selfie sticks defy words to describe how horrible they are.
Agreed, i call them narcissist sticks.
What kind of neckbeard thinks selfies are narcissistic? Grow up!
I didn’t say all selfies but i’m not the one getting their panties in a bunch over a comment lol. Have a great day.
no face on your profile, you must have a face for radio.
Really? That’s what you get out of not posting my face all over social media? I feel sorry for your friends,lol. Like I said, have a great day. And I’m sorry that my comment got you so riled up for nothing.
The last Apple conference I attended at Berlin my iPhone could only receive phone calls? was locked down from any other functionality? Apple… ?
It was probably just a metal roof or interference. But hey you never know.
When you don’t want an arm in the frame while making a duck face….