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Apple Won't Be At Macworld Boston
analog_line writes "Apple apparently is none too pleased about the decision to move Macworld to Boston from New York in 2004. So much so that they have said that they 'will not be participating in Macworld Boston.' They are also considering pulling out of Macworld New York 2003, though they say they will be at Macworld San Francisco."
Senior execs added: "Have you seen the hookers in Boston? I'm not traveling across 3 timezones for that..."
I don't understand why they would want to go to begin with. I mean, Big Mac's are pretty good, but personally, I would rather go to something like NachoWorld.
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Haha, what is a MacWorld without Apple exactly? I like how Apple is "important partner for Macworld". Maybe because they make the Macs?
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Sony announced that it wont be participating in E3 because it's not in Japan.
If you don't find the humor in this in the context of Mac's then you're just a little too dense.
Clearly you've never driven through New York. ;p
(Where it's being moved from)
Think Apple would mind if they moved the west coast event to Redmond?
According to their ad slogans, they want everyone to change...is it so hard to expect the same from management?
"she says i'm lousy conversation. as if that's supposed to help."
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I will not be at the MacWorld Conference either...
What, is Steve Jobs a Yankees fan or something?
dude, mad props if you can drive from NYC to Boston in 2 hours.
So they say...
I'll believe it when ny building stops shaking from all of the impact hammering.
2004 is a year after the big dig will be done.
but then, so is 1986...
Too bad IDG is not moving it to Hawaii. Now I would love to see MacWorld Honolulu!
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So I'm looking through waiting for the Big Apple puns, and I don't see any. Get to work, you guys.
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Maybe a lot more vendors will be there since they don't have to worry about Jobs coming over to their booths and yelling and screaming at them ;)
but its called MACWORLD!
In related news, Apple announced that they will be taking legal action against IDG to prevent the use of the term "MAC" in "MACworld". Consequently, the show will now be called "The UnixAlike PPC OS/Hardware World Exposition".
The light blue, Aqua theme has also been removed from all marketing materials.
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I've got it - there is not public transport, no taxi, no sidewalks in Boston. All execs from USA should drive themselves crossing all country.
All execs from the rest-of-the-world must rent-a-car. All Mac-World is organized as "drive-through".
People without cars are not accepted to the exposition.
Less is more !
Aha...I have thought of an answer to my own question - perhaps Apple are annoyed because the first they heard about the 'Switch' was when it popped up on iCal after IDG published their updated calendar? :-)
Tim
"And so I was in Boston, but it was like, really busy...all the cabs were beeping their horns...it was like...beep beep beep beep beep...and then I fell over, and, like, half of my keynote was gone...and I was, like, huh? Boston devoured my keynote. It was a really good keynote. And then I had to write it again, and I had to do it fast, so it wasn't as good. It's kind of...a bummer.
So the next year we did it in New York, and it was so much easier. I'm never going back.
My name's Steve Jobs, and I'm an iCEO. Can you pass me that rattle? I think it's mine."
Newbies don't go to MacWorld (generally speaking) or any other trade show for that matter.
;-).
I take it you weren't at LinuxWorld this year
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It's ok. The Red Sox are gonna win it all next year anyway. Then Boston won't need no stupid MacWorld.
I wasn't.
*picture me kicking myself in the ass*
I wish though... We geeks know how to party.
Why would apple want to move from the Big Apple??
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Or maybe he omitted the sarcasm tags because he was actually using irony, which is like sarcasm, except instead of telegraphing your true meaning, you rely on your audience having wit to figure it out for themselves.
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Which is why Apple's withdrawing from its usual pansy orbit and taking its machines to a whole new market segment that *really* understands high performance:
NASCAR!
Steve Jobs is said to have decided that Apple will pull the ultimate switcheroo - dump its installed customer base for one "that knows the value of a unisex Led Zeppelin halter top." There seems also to be something to accounts that director Errol Morris has vowed that if he is asked "to shoot one more commercial featuring ovulating 14-year olds who can't turn on a PC," the documentary filmmaker will "hang myself."
The revised appearance schedule reflects the growing sense of testosterone at Apple in the wake of its industry-dominant Switch campaign, feeding rumors that a new product, the Masculintosh, is in the wings.
Macworld in Boston: laughable.
Macworld in New York: oh please.
Macworld in Daytona: fuggin' A!
then, as posted above..... NYC was hit hard last year. they can still use all the support they can get. why pull out on them now?
So, in other words, if MacWorld moves to Boston, then the terrorists have won , eh?
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Perhaps Steve Jobs is afraid of Radeon Leaks?
Or was that Radon?
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