12-16-2008, 11:25 PM
At least as long as Jobs has been back at Apple for his second stint, they have really chafed at being forced to tie major product releases to the trade show cycle instead of being able to introduce them when they're good and ready.
Trade shows in general are dinosaurs, relics of the pre-Internet age. It's nice to see stuff in person, but it's been pretty rare that I've actually seen anything new at MacWorld. I used to go to Seybold every year as well, and I can't for the life of me remember when that show finally dried up and died off completely.
Sucks that we're deprived of one last Stevenote, though. And I guess MacWorld '10 is a guaranteed non-starter now.
Trade shows in general are dinosaurs, relics of the pre-Internet age. It's nice to see stuff in person, but it's been pretty rare that I've actually seen anything new at MacWorld. I used to go to Seybold every year as well, and I can't for the life of me remember when that show finally dried up and died off completely.
Sucks that we're deprived of one last Stevenote, though. And I guess MacWorld '10 is a guaranteed non-starter now.