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Re: MacWorld '09 - Apple's last big show :( - sekker - 12-17-2008
I think they want to manage expectations. MacWorld generated a lot of unrealistic craziness from the mac zealots - and wall street.
Stevo must have decided this was just one too many things on his plate.
Let's hope it's nothing else.
Re: MacWorld '09 - Apple's last big show :( - Blankity Blank - 12-17-2008
This is...
Weird. I've gone to something like seventeen or eighteen straight expos in San Francisco. Maybe more. And now, the REAL expo is about to in all likelihood take its last breath. Macworld without Apple will become just another modest sized tradeshow as fast as you can blink. Blink again, and I have a feeling what we'll see in a year or so is the R.I.P. banners being hung.
Not at all surprising. Trade shows, especially "trade" shows that are largely attended by the general public, are dinosaurs. Video killed the radio star and HTML and QT streaming killed "Just one more thing..."
Inevitable. No Apple at Macworld? People are going to fly across the country and across continents to check out the latest offerings from Ambrosia and Microsoft? If Adobe was still on board, well if the Adobe of old was on board anyway, I might have hoped for the expo to keep going and transform into something with a pulse. Now, barely a flicker of hope from where I sit.
Just the last the way things are now. The party that was the Mac community has been changing shape and character for quite awhile now. It's a natural evolution, neither inherently good or bad. But "cardboard fort in the front yard where all your best buds come to play" feel is very much a thing of the past. We've moved beyond "local hangout" and even "college frathouse." It's been and continues to be a maturation process. It's still sad to lose some of the good bits though.
I've already got my exhibit pass for this year (Thanks, Larry!), so I'll take a few days off and dive into the splinter universe of macmacness one last time.
Who knows? Maybe by 2010 things will turn around and Apple will change their collective mind.
(Come on, humor me.)
Re: MacWorld '09 - Apple's last big show :( - OWC Larry - 12-17-2008
Ambrosia actually bailed on the show a good few weeks ago (unless I be mistaken)... and hey - we'll be there... this last time at least.
Apple stock seemed to respond well to the Apple announcement after hours - maybe because someone other than Jobs taking a lead keynote... assuming something important gets announced in that MW opener.
Oh well... silver lining, ya right. This bites.
Re: MacWorld '09 - Apple's last big show :( - deckeda - 12-17-2008
Macworld: Bag of Hurt
Re: MacWorld '09 - Apple's last big show :( - vicrock - 12-17-2008
MacWorld = preaching to the choir.
Apple is after switchers - and switchers aren't attending MacWorld.
Re: MacWorld '09 - Apple's last big show :( - incognegro - 12-17-2008
also:
iPhone has the Apple store, and software developers can market their $5 apps directly thru Apple, with no need to rent a booth or print up marketing materials.
there's always DefCon for you hardcore geeks.
http://www.defcon.org/
Re: MacWorld '09 - Apple's last big show :( - Blankity Blank - 12-17-2008
Macworld.
Big tractor trailers parked right on the show floor with vendors selling all kinds of cool hardware and software at prices you could only get at the show. Vendors giving away tons of software and t-shirts and books and umbrellas and bags and whatever else they could get their hands on during demos. Booth babes. Useless giveaways with the vendors name printed on them that clicked and blinked and annoyed the hell out of everyone. And everyone wanted one. Finding which vendor had the coolest canvas bag to haul all your swag from the show around in. Crowds so big you could hardly make your way through the aisles. In BOTH halls of Moscone. Seeing Peter Cohen or Glenda Adams or the Lynda from Lynda.com or Robin Williams of "The Little Mac Book" walking the floor. Bumping into six different people you know in the course of a day. Bumping into your boss, AWOL from work, on the show floor. Going to dinner with friends from New York and Canada and Kansas and England and Japan and god knows where else all here, once a year for the show. The Phd that uses his Macs to study climatology and the fabric designer and the guy who runs all the tests doctors order in the middle of surgery and the couple who had all the inside skinny on Apple's recycling efforts. And everybody gathers round the table close when the guy who works at that department at Apple brings out his Powerbook and and let's you get just a little peek at... well, I can't tell you that; I don't want to get him in hot water. He's an effing great guy. Then sitting in the lobby of one of the hotels BSing about Apple and Macs and global warming and movies and anything else till it was almost midnight. Meeting that cool kid and his dad. That cool kid still in junior high that was already doing things with a Mac that you never even heard about when you were in junior high school. Little dork is way too smart for his own good, dammit. And that goofy dork from Canada who does some cute little internet radio show about Macs. What a goon. His wife's hot though (And waaay smarter than he is. Though, she did marry him , so how smart could she be?). Well, even geeks get lucky sometimes. Making that one last trip down to the show floor for whatever before the show finally closes.
Finally closes.
Yeah that sucks.
Re: MacWorld '09 - Apple's last big show :( - Lee3 - 12-17-2008
Good one Blankity
Re: MacWorld '09 - Apple's last big show :( - Kiva - 12-17-2008
i read some other article that talked about apple always disliking that the show was after xmas...and they just want to be in control of where and when they announce products...
who knows..
kiva
Re: MacWorld '09 - Apple's last big show :( - Speedy - 12-17-2008
It was great press. Apple couldn't buy that.