MacWorld '09 - Apple's last big show :(

[estnyc]

Oh, the swag, the swag...

It was always tremendous publicity for Apple. The huge lines of the faithful waiting for the Stevenote was an evergreen story. Apple might well regret this...

[estnyc]

jdc wrote:
that didnt sound misspent at all =)

Ah, if only last week were part of that misspent youth!

She doesn't look bad for 49. Or sound bad, for that matter.

[testcase]

Kramerica wrote:
This makes me sad. I've never been, but have always wanted to.

Same here .

[testcase]

Blankity Blank wrote:
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.

Wow! Now I REALLY miss what I've missed :eek:

[graylocks]

went to MacWorld twice when i lived in the SF Bay Area. don't remember which years but i still use a black WordPerfect umbrella that i got there.