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Apple Cancels Apple Expo 2001
Ziploc writes: "Apple today announced the cancellation of Apple Expo 2001, which was scheduled to take place at Paris Expo, Porte de Versailles, from September 26th to 30th, 2001.
See the press release here."
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Steve Jobs promised "No new hardware at Expo Paris."
Looks like he'll be keeping his promise!
Serious question here. I'm sorry, but what does this have anything to do with the Paris Expo? Security is their #1 concern? I'm not following the relevance.
If God gave us curiosity
So the new hardware isn't going to get a pretty parade in Paris?
Writers imply. Readers infer.
It doesn't take me by surprise at all, and I don't really blame him. International flights out of the US are going to be a little scary for a while since the past Tuesdays affairs.
Since there was no new hardware to be displayed, I don't really see this as much of a loss anyhow.
Apple really needs to refocus and release tech. info on their older systems anyhow. I've been fighting for 2 years to get driver-level specs for a Powerbook 1400, and have yet to recieve anything but a runaround. MacOS X based on a BSD core is pretty cool, but Apple just like IBM-clones need a choice. BeOS comes close, but neither of these will run on my PB. I'd hate to think I'd wasted my money.
BTW, a 1400 CAN be installed, but PCMCIA and floppy support, you can forget about.
-What have you contributed lately?
Turns out there actually won't be any new products announced at Apple Expo this year.
I can't spell or type, but that doesn't mean I'm unusually stupid.
Apple will also be donating an iBook to each of these families with children.
And the men who hold high places must be the ones who start
To mold a new reality... closer to the heart
The expo starts on the 26th, 15 days after the attacks on the WTC. Apple has to move a lot of key personnel from Apple USA to Paris for the expo, personnel which are not always American citizens and some are quite likely "Arab looking".
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Am I the only one who thinks Microsoft is a misnomer? Perhaps Macrosoft would be a better fit?
I think it is still a bit too soon for a high energy SteveNote address right now. Good call.
"Things are more moderner than before- bigger, and yet smaller- it's computers-- San Dimas High School football RULES!"
Oh.. they've managed to disrupt. There's no doubt about that. And they've finally gotten what they've wanted after all these years: Distruction of a notable amount on US soil.
So be it, the trick is that we'll rebuild the World Trade Centers and surrounding buildings. We'll have Federal security instead of the lousy $6/hr wannabe's that will let you on a plane with a Bowie knife. It will be a safer than it was before, and not giving up any personal freedoms. But now, we all have a common goal to focus on, and this helps keep at bay the internal problems we've had in the past.
Maybe after this is all over with, we can have the military ACTUALLY patrolling the borders and keep more drugs/terrorists/etc. out of our country!
-What have you contributed lately?
I'd bet that it was because there would be logistics problems right now with the backlog of flights steming from last weeks events.
On one hand, I sympathize with security concerns. This is a frightening time. On the other hand, is a congregation of nerds in Paris really much of a target? If the terrorists were going after intellectuals, they could have crashed into harvard or MIT (15 minutes into their flight from boston). If they want to damage the economy, damaging such a narrow (1 company+peripheral manufacturers) target wouldn't be nearly effective as hitting, for instance, the Stock exchange. It's like my school, where janitors were posted to make sure nobody bombed. Seems like a bit of paranoia to me, but on the other hand Apple didn't have much to say.
My Karma is so good, I'm the Dalai Lama...or something.
Apple was not happy with the press ranting about "no new products".
The show would have been very weak, with another Jobs keynote just about the Mac OS X upgrade.
Now the terror threat comes in very handy to cancel the fiasco show.
-- bmp System Support - Vienna, Austria
In short, they're wimps
While I agree this was definately the right thing to do, it is a bummer that the events of last week are having longer term disruptions. The best thing, IMO, for the economy and stability is to go back to life as close to normal as possible, except with beefed up security.
-Sean
Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh.
Good work back in the 70's and 80's, but - what have you done for us lately? ;-)
(Yes, that was a joke. When a dual G5 hit's the shelves with MacOS 10.1, I'm probably buying one!)
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After all, they don't have many left as it is...
Strange, they are the only computercompany which didn't made a loss last quarter.
And the iBook and G4 ti is selling like crazy..
Typical anti Apple FUD as always.
but as much as I'd like to see things continue like normal, it is probably wise to cancel events such as these for a short time. Air travel has suffered a horrific blow that has made many unsure of the safety of air travel. I hate to see the world shut down over this but some things should be put on hold for a little while.
One good thing to come out of this tradgedy -- NO ONE will ever successfully hijaak a passenger airliner ever again. The minute they try to take over, they'll be swarmed over by all the passengers and stomped into bloody bits.
Snagged from Macnn.com:
Message from Steve
From: Steve Jobs
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 07:12:15 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Message from Steve
Team,
Last week's devastating and tragic events have touched everyone at
Apple. We are all grieving for the victims and their families.
Thankfully, no Apple team members were among them. I know many of
you have taken time to support various relief efforts, give blood,
and support those around you. We all appreciate your extra efforts
to do so.
I want to let you know that Apple is donating one million dollars to
the families of the firefighters, police and other emergency
response personnel who lost their lives, through the American Red
Cross Disaster Relief Fund. In addition, we will donate one iBook to
each of these families with children this holiday season.
Also, today we are announcing the cancellation of Apple Expo 2001,
which was scheduled to take place in Paris on September 26-30. We
are very sorry to disappoint our customers and developers, but their
safety must be our primary concern at this time. Apple is a very
visible American company, and having a highly publicized event at
this time would be irresponsible.
We are also taking extra precautions to insure our safety. Apple
security will remain on heightened alert at all our facilities
around the world for the foreseeable future. Please immediately
report any suspicious events or personnel to security.
It's going to take time for the world to return to "normal", and
some things will never return to the way they were. The next few
months may be rocky. Please take the time you need for your
families, and please lean on one another. Together, we will all get
through this.
I want to commend everyone for their efforts throughout this
difficult time. As always, I am very proud of this team.
Steve
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Am I the only one who thinks Microsoft is a misnomer? Perhaps Macrosoft would be a better fit?
Welcome to the NEW world, folks! Not only can I for see the absolutely diabolical events of the last week doing more of this sort of thing, that the realization that "we" are no longer safe in
large crowds.
I'm wondering if there's going to be a Superbowl, Academy Awards...
:-(
I forget what the event was, but numerous luminaries in the US film business (most memorably Sylvester Stallone, since it was the Rambo era) refused to go to Cannes.
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E_NOSIG
This isn't meant to be heartless, but I think the world needs to get back to life as normal. I don't think the threats to security are any greater now than they have ever been, and we need to return to normal life for the sake of the economy. When are all these cancellations going to end?
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"Karma can only be portioned out by the cosmos." - Homer Simpson [1F10]
Too bad for you, they will gain one very soon. I'm fed up with PC:s giving me incredibly amounts of trouble (Windows) or being plain user hostile (Linux). My old computer will have to act as a server in the future, where Linux actually fits very well. The computer I will sit in front of and work on will run MacOS X all the time.
War is one of the most horrible things a human can be exposed to. And one of the worlds largest industries.
I wonder what happens when a firefight breaks out at 30,000 feet? How many bullets would it take to puncture the skin, have the air pressure tear it off and for people to be sucked out? Maybe we should start thinking about installing bulletproof seats on airplanes now?
Terrorists might view Apple as a target because of that.
The WTC didn't house many (if any) government offices, they were businesses.
Personally, I also think it's a little too reactionary; they should just beef up security and go on with the show.
There was a report on Marketplace on Friday about how many organizations within the US are cancelling their conventions because of the tragedy. The financial impact on the tourism industry of those cities is in the tens of millions of dollars. Think about it, if a convention has 30,000 people, and each person spends an average of $300 apiece on food, lodging, and such, then the loss of that one convention would mean the loss of $9 mil. in revenue.
Safety? What big name terrorist is going to hit a computer company convention? Sure they're pretty well known, but hardly a good target for destroying the Western world's economy or confidence. The number of attractive destruction targets that come ahead of Apple Expo number in the thousands. Why, even in Paris, I'd think there are more than a few famous landmarks that would be well publicized if they were to get destroyed. Apple Expo getting bombed would make front page news maybe, and only for one day.
If anything, we should be promoting these kind of event, not just to show that our lives continue on despite the terrorists attempts to change them, but also to help bolster the airline industry. If things don't pick up quickly, even with the gov't bailout, several of the majors may go down this year.
"No, no, no. Don't tug on that. You never know what it might be attached to."
That's exactly how I feel. If there was done nothing at the airports I would be afraid, However that's NOT the case.
ARM was supposed to have a training this week in San Jose, however the same thing happened and the training was canselled...Dumb dumb move.... DUMB!
Info here. It was going to be here in DC next week, and I imagine most of the attendees were flying into National Airport, which is closed indefinitely.
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And I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.
Berke Breathed
Apple is slowly dying anyway.
Well, duh! What did they expect when they decided to use BSD?
Slashdot is jumping the shark. I'm just driving the boat.
They didn't predict anything for MacWorld Paris, and it looks like they were right!!!
I imagine it's not, but the first thing that flew into my mind was that this was possibly a 'protest' against France's... umm... how to say it... 'lukewarm support' for American policies in tracking and punishing the terrorists responsible for the WTC attack.
'Life is like a spoonful of Drain-O, it feels good on the way down but leaves you feeling hollow inside'
Last week during the disaster, hundreds of websites changed their front page to reflect the horrible disaster which occurred. Everything from search engines like google.com to humor sites like keepersoflists.org and even Microsoft.com put something up about the disaster. Apple blatently ignored the issue for several days, and while a tech support individual I spoke with (about an unrelated issue) said they were all stunned by the event, the web site did not reflect this for several days. It made me a little less happy to be a Mac user. (Yes, I use linux/unix every day as well)
I wish Apple would have been a little cooler about the whole thing. At least they are finally catching up.
Yuck.
This isn't about him; he has a Gulfstream V he would have used to fly to the expo.
I predict a lot of large corporations are going to consider following his lead in the very near future.
D
We're already in the midst of one jihad, don't get another one started... :-P
There will likely be alot of disrupted PR events in the coming months, it's not going to just be Apple.
As for the next killer app/machine coming from SGI...ha. Thier stock is currently trading at 40 cents a share and are about to be delisted from the NASDAQ.
Apple has shipped many times more machines in the last two years than SGI has, sorry but if anyone is getting a nail in the coffin, it's SGI.
Honestly, you won't be more safe in the US than in the EU. My girlfriend and I both realize this and therefore are NOT canceling our Paris vacation, even though we're flying American Airlines from Boston. As long as they let us get on the plane on the 27th, we're going.
"I'm The Bounty Bear. I will find him anywhere. I'm searching."
As one of the Anonymous masses mentioned above, this is not merely an issue of fearing potential attack upon the expo itself. Each of these expos has 100+ exhibitors, all of whom need goods transported, on time, safely, and, worse, in this case, across international borders. This may be now, and for the next few weeks both more difficult, and probably more expensive.
Many companies nation, and even world-wide have issued directives stating that 'no one will be forced to fly'. Can you blame them for cancelling an event that may have been plagued by the resultant no-shows of the exhibitors? Business-wise it makes sense, and then, given that they are a prominent American corporation, the over-arching safety concern makes it a very sound decision indeed.
Linux user hostile? Nah, it is more like "honey, what's wrong? == What's wrong with the computer?"
The answer is to both questions "If you don't know I'm not going to tell you."
Solution? a lot of coaxing, key/ego stroking and looking in the right places and eventually you'll figure it/them/her out.
Moose.
There are two ways to argue with a woman, neither one works.
Have you read the moderator guidelines? Well, have you, PUNK? (and I want a Karma: Gnarly option)
SGI is doing such great business these days. FYI, Apple has enough cash to buy SGI if they were worth it....they arent. SGI's restructuring and wacko business model have basically doomed it. The intel based series is just more competition for Intergraph....now theres a wildly successful business ;-)
It absolutely amazes me how someone can talk about nails in Apple's coffin and in the same paragraph reccomend SGI. SGI died when they became SGI (As opposed to Silicon Graphics) They just dont know it yet. Maybe this kind of anti-FUD is enough to raise SGI out of the pink sheets....I doubt it.
Proud owner of 3 mips based SGI's...and 5 macs.
I agree with you about info on older systems. I'm sort of part of the dwindling community of Newton users (sort of because I used to use it quite a bit, but haven't touched it in the past few months), and low-level/never-released info on it could potentially REALLY be useful.
Sean Luke has succesfuly ported the Waba JVM to the Newton, and low-level info on how to access the QuickDraw routines in the Newton ROM would really speed up the graphics. It's been done (Fractor, by Jason Rukman - you don't happen to know him?), but I can't find him.. Diddo for how to access the inker directly. And for info on how to make an OSX app to connect to the internal Dock application, or having the source to the NewtonScript byte-code compiler to make a replacement for NTK. Heck, the whole darn source code for the OS would be nice to look at, as I'd think that there's nothing of particularly "strategic value" in there (except for legacy SE QuickDraw routines, which are just that - legacy) On a more ambitious note, info on the hardware specs would be useful, especially with regards to replacing the display, or perhaps putting in a larger one.
I ran across a post somewhere talking about the mounds and mounds of neat techology that Apple is just sitting on - QuickDraw GX, PowerTalk, KeyChain (off the table now, as it's in the OS), QuickDraw 3D (mostly supplanted by Quesa, but they still have some neat 3D-user-interface ideas for a mythical "Quickdraw 3D 2.0") and saying that Apple should release these gems as open-source. Put a moderatly restrictive licensing agreement on it saying that it can't be used in commercial software without written authorization from Apple (but that would invole $$$ on Apple's part to process requests, and you'd have to hire an army of lawyers to go after M$ if they tried to steal it.)
Hmm, any posibility of forming a "Coalition to Free Apple Technology" ("Apple Toys want to be free..."), and the prayer of getting an ear on the board of directors?
Miffed,
Jim Witte
jswitte@bloomington.in.us
I'm not sure where you get that impression? One of the first world leaders to speak out in support of the United States was the French Prime Minister.
I would confidently say that Apple had no political angle on this. I would suspect that Apple is primarily concerned about the logistics of people travelling all over the world to attend the conference. In addition, a sparcely attended event would only further aggrivate economic troubles that Apple will be facing from this tragedy. Like it or not, the terrorism has taken the wind out our sails for a little bit. I'm sure we will all get along with life once a critical mass of society feels normal again. That time hasn't been reached yet.
-- Solaris Central - http://w
Let us also put this in perspective, Apple secretly funded Be for a few months. If Apple wanted a company like Be instead of SGI, what hope does SGI have?
No deathnails need to be prepaired, Apple has the same market share as Linux. Death, Taxes and Apple. Always gonna be here. They have gone through a lot worse and they always seem to bounce back.
m.kelley
life is like a freeway, if you don't look you could miss it.
They have the same market share percentage that Linux has. Would you rather have a solid 5% or a weak 50% of users?
m.kelley
life is like a freeway, if you don't look you could miss it.
France has just reactivated it's anti-terrorist plan (called vigipirate).
It means: military people under the Eiffel tower. Every trash can in Paris is removed (it's not a joke...) and Jets with missiles at 10min of flight from Paris.
So France should be about as secure as the US...
Quentin
Thanks.
Give a hand, not a hand-out.
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apple??!?!?!?!? financial trouble??? Apple happends to be the only computer company who is still profitting. and they have a LOT of cash availible. they are giving away a lot of money to the victems(1 ibook for fammillies with children and one million dollars to the famillies of rescue workers).
Sig you!
(The canceled Expo announcement was out before the markets closed, and had no effect.)
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I wonder if this means that any other announcements (MacOS 10.1 intro) that were slated for AppleExpo will be held at Seybold in SF instead. It's also possible that they may have a special coming out party, like they did for the original iMac.
--------------------- Eddie Liu.
I can't think of any reason not to release specs on legacy products though.
One easy reason: Apple makes most of its money on hardware sales. They don't want you to keep your old stuff running; they want you to replace it with a new Mac instead.
It would be nice if they released all of their discarded software as public source, but hiring someone to sort through the old code files and tech notes costs money that a tech biz is hard to afford in these lean times. Maybe someone could convince Jordan Hubbard to let them do it as a volunteer?
this is the most likely explanation.
Many major events are canceled because of this very tight security measures.
"The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers." Bill Gates,
the fact that Prince Alwaleed (of Saudi royal family) has over $300m invested in apple.
Just another half-wit would-be soothsayer fortelling the demise of Apple!
You actually have a problem with an affordable video editing system with dvd burning? If you want to shell out the big bucks for an SGI station, go ahead!
Apple naysayers, like yourself, always find some little nit to pick. "Oh, their hardware is too expensive." Now, you're complaining it's too cheap. Perhaps the only nail being driven into a coffin here is the one that you've hammered in the coffin of English grammar. It's "existence," not "existance"... It sounds like your fiscal abilities are as poor as your English.
US Airliners are safer now then they have been in a long time thanks to beefed up US airport security. Noone has even made a peep that I've heard of a threatening move towards france.
This is the wierdest PR excuse for a chnage of direction I've ever heard. Can ANYONE make sense of it for me??
Frankly the US Airliens need the business, if Apple really was concerned with the fall out from this attack I'd thnk they'd want to help promote intercontinental flight...
After all, they don't have many left as it is...
That's right, and they certainly can't afford to give away ONE MILLION DOLLARS and a truckload of laptop computers.
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This isn't about him; he has a Gulfstream V he would have used to fly to the expo.
Is the FAA allowing private flights yet? They were only allowing commercial flights for awhile...
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Why is it, that when Apple donates $1m and probably another $1m in computers, /. cheers, but when MS gives away $5m and another $5m in software, they boo?
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Good for Apple.
Good for MS.
Bad for
I see one rather large thinking fallacy recurring in many replies here. Too many people are trying to psychoanalyze the terrorists and whether or not an Apple convention would be a target. However, this line of thought requires one basic assumption that is just downright wrong: the terrorists, whoever they might be, are not necessarily going to act logically. If they were that rational, they wouldn't have made such a futile and (likely) ultimately self-defeating move as to piss off the United States. Sure, an Apple convention might not be high on the laundry list of targets, but that might be what makes it so attractive: nobody would expect it. Anyway, bugger all. It doesn't particularly matter.
Surely the best thing to do would have been to carry on and show the murders that you are not afraid of them, that they won't disrupt your life, that things *will* carry on?
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If you go over to http://www.ntsb.gov and look at a few reports (as I did)... you may notice that there were some 42,000 fatal traffic accidents in 1999. There were 12 fatal air travel accidents in 1999, 1 in 1998 and a high point of 526 fatalities in 1985.
Doing the math (sorry punch in your own numbers) and even if you narrow the window to, say, 7AM EST to 11AM EST on September 11, 2001... it was still far safer to travel by air than to travel by car. Remember to correct for miles covered in trip.
"Don't sweat the technique."
Let's say you're a billion dollar corporation who's just seen a huge tragedy happen in your home country possibly with several employees directly related to people involved in the tragedy. Are you going to force them to hope on a plane to some expo? Besides that, are you going to ask a bunch of other corporations to do the exact same thing? You won't be a billion dollar corporation for long with that sort of insensitive bullshit happening. It's also pretty ludicrous to try to hae a big international expo at the same time as a major downsizing in the worldwide travel market.
I'm a loner Dottie, a Rebel.
people with email domain of hotmail shouldn't throw rocks
The stoppage of airline flights produced a tremendous backlog in essential flights, including medical-related ones. Organs that had deadlines had to be rerouted to lower-priority patients to avoid wasting them altogether.
There was a call for Americans to volounteer by giving up nonessential plane reservations. Jobs may or may have not had this in mind, but the Expo cancellation will help with this.
check out mac os x. i've had on my new ibook since early june and i've rebooted it twice since then. it's exceptionally stable, and kicks the fuck out the windows 2000 workstation i'm writing this on... doesn't touch my linux though (320+ days and counting)...
Every once in a while I like to masturbate a new word into my vocabulary, even if I don't know what it means.
not a 5, but worth reading. and 'offtopic' just barely applies... think before you mod down...
A: None. The Universe spins the bulb, and the Zen master merely stays out of the way.
Cash Donation / Earnings = Percent of Earnings Donated .065%
Apple: $1M / $67M = 1.5%
Microsoft: $5M / $7720M =
If Microsoft wanted to match Apple's donation (percentage wise) they would have to donate $115.8M and not just $5M.
IMO Apple also wins on the other donations since they're donating equipment (with a very low profit margin and high cost per unit) as compared to M$'s donation of software only (with an extremely high profit margin). The end cost will most likely be more for Apple.
Also consider this: This horrific act [of the WTC bombing] is a big windfall for M$. How many copies of Windows XP and Server 2k will they sell because of this attack? Alot more than $10M worth. Their per share price is up almost 3% today (18-09-01) while the market as a whole tanks. Out of respect to those that lost there lives I will not make a joke about this.
If it sounds like I hate M$ it's because I do. Their software sucks for what you pay for it and Gates is just plain evil.
Also both pale in comparison to the average "Joe Six Pack" who has been giving a higher percent of his income than either. Companies should not operate for the sole benefit of it's investors but also (and equally) to the benefit of their communities. In reality just about every for profit corporation fails miserably at this.
pherris
Income info from:
Microsoft (http://biz.yahoo.com/p/m/msft.html)
Apple (http://biz.yahoo.com/p/a/aapl.html)
"And a voice was screaming: 'Holy Jesus! What are these goddamn animals?'" - HST
Quite interesting for several reasons: -Nicely written, loaded with macabre humor, and on target as far as the "redneck" angle is concerned. -Most unusual to find this kind of political/historical awareness of American crimes around the world, coming from an American!!! -But unfortunately, he proves unable to draw the obvious conclusions from his awareness, and resorts to the usual jingoism and "let's fuck up the gooks responsible for this" attitude. Understandable in many ways, but... Here is another one who expects a cakewalk through the Hindu Kush, and who is going to be cruelly disappointed. The dancing arab kids may not have legs to dance on in a near future, but a similar fate awaits many a Texas redneck volunteer who encounters the reality of combat, away from Duke-Nukem and his playstation.