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Macworld Expo May Return to Boston
Anonymous Being of Power writes "According to a New York Post Article, Macworld New York may be held once again in Boston due to rising costs and lower attendance."
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If Apple doesn't get something done about the processor performance/speed in the near future they may as well move their next expo to Sioux Falls for all the interest it's going to generate.
for this year might have been down to all the "rumors" flying around stating that there was no G5.
.Mac) is all a recipe for a pretty boring expo.
"there was not much interesting at this year's expo" in NY, and that is a quote from an ex-Bungie employee.
no new hardware of tecchnological note, lame new software and services (iTunes and
it is no different than this year's linux expo on NYC being smaller, and far less interesting, IMO, than 2 years before.
just some more effects of the dotcom bubble bursting.
I just got two troll points further odwn for making a wise crack about Apple and the sorry state of it's processors. Note that I'm a mac user. I personally was in the market for a new Mac laptop but was left wondering about the price/performance as compared to PC's which are so venemously put down by Mac users. Apple makes a brilliant OS in OSX but it's hardware is expensive and slow compared to PC's (Go and try a modern PC with XP or Linux to see for yourself. Look at the price tag while you're at it.)
I point out that Apple's iMac has stopped selling well and Macs are sitting in the stores in General at the moment. Apple doesn't acknowledge the fact that it is falling behind in performance and the macintosh fans are extremely reluctant to look at the facts in the face.
It is *NOT* getting better either as far as I can see. Even if Apple does get a break and manage to conjure up 1.8 to 2.0GHz CPU's how is Apple going to tell all those people that have recently bought a Macintosh that not only do they get to pay $129 for the OSX update but they also have machines that are less than half as fast as the newer ones selling at the same price. Wouldn't you be irritated?
I lived in Philly for two years, myself, and I stand by my initial assessment. Philly is a real city, and Boston combined with Cambridge still isn't remotely as large.
Boston has not given IDG a free ride, at least not yet -- IDG was pushing for it, and looking for leverage in dealing with the Javitts people. There still isn't an offer on the table from Boston, and AFAIK it'll be 2006 before the center is completed anyway.
The "Silver Line" is a bus, still rides on the roads, and is no more a subway than the Green Line is (less, actually). A bad joke, especially for those of us South Enders who are expected to use it.
Finally, no one stays in downtown Boston, they stay in Back Bay/Copley, by the airport, or not in Boston at all...and I'd hate to have to walk from any of those places to downtown, the WTC in southie, N./S. End for restaurants or anywhere else in the July heat.
Please, don't compare the pathetic cab system they have in Boston to that of NYC or Philly -- apart from a couple of train stations & Logan, you simply can't get a cab unless you're on Mass Ave or Boyleston.
We'll just have to agree to disagree, but I think its clear that Boston is not the site for a world-class event that Apple needs. Tokyo, London, San Francisco, and...Boston? I think not.