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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..."
Haha, what is a MacWorld without Apple exactly? I like how Apple is "important partner for Macworld". Maybe because they make the Macs?
This page was generated by a Barrel of Circus Midgets, and that is the way I like it!!!
Sony announced that it wont be participating in E3 because it's not in Japan.
I thought it was a pimp convention!
Boy, was I was wrong.
And the only hoochie there was this drugged up kid who kept babbling on about how her term paper going "beep beep beep" even though it was "really good".
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
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."
It doesn't matter, people who don't like Apple's attitude can just switch to alternative suppliers of Macintoshes and buy OS X from someone else.
-- Ed Avis ed@membled.com
2004 is a year after the big dig will be done. bigdig.com
2004 is a year after the big dig will be done.
but then, so is 1986...
If you believe that, I've got a monorail to set up in your town.
While I hope that you're right, I fear that you're wrong.
Raptor
"Procrastination is great. It gives me a lot more time to do things that I'm never going to do."
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.
Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power.
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
Rule Number 1:
Never, I repeat, NEVER give the Slashdot crowd a setup line like this!
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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