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Macworld Expo Comes Back To Boston in 2004

Posted by pudge on from the beans-beans-the-wonderful-fruit dept.

analog_line writes "According to this article in Business Today, in 2004 the summer Macworld Expo will move from New York City and the Javits Center back to Boston, where it rightfully belongs! As a Boston area resident, I'm ecstatic! Can't tell you how much I look forward to not having to go to New York. ;-)" This was rumored a few months ago, and I am glad to see it happen.

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  1. It's good news but.. by catwh0re · · Score: 2, Interesting
    It's good news for Boston, but NY I feel is a more relevant venue, first Macs are commonplace in the DTP & Graphic design centres in NY. (It's definitely more than 5% Apple usage in NYC). Also post all the 9/11 stuff, you'd want NY to have a bit more popularity.

    And no one can go past the whole Apple in the Big Apple stigma.

  2. no surprise by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The last Mac expo in NYC was such a dis-appointment to all that went (public, developers, media) that it is not shocking that NYC didn't want it to come back. That, and the fact that the charges for JJC are going up, while Boston offered it up for free! 10's of millions of dollars is a huge overstatement of the effect of the expo, at least in terms of $ for the host city. Besides, the Boston metro area has far fewer people than NYC does. Expect the attendance to be down in comparison to expo's of the past in NYC.

  3. Tight timeline by shaping_innovation · · Score: 5, Interesting

    According to the Herald, Macworld is scheduled for two weeks after the opening of the convention center. Given Boston's track record with large state funded construction projects, what do you think the actual chances are that the center will be completed within two weeks of their deadline? :)