Macworld Boston ended yesterday. Didn’t realize it was going on at all? You’re in good company. Since Apple didn’t have a presence there and there was no Steve Jobs rock concert product announcement, nobody paid much attention to the Mac-oriented trade show, notes Wired News.
they should have not held it in boston simple as that ( no offence to boston residence ) what the should have done was hold it in the NYC Jacob Javits center IMO
Agreed, Javits Center has plenty of room for such a convention, and a whole lot more population in NYC as well. And I’m not just saying this because of my love for NYC and because I think its the greatest place in the world….
I live in Boston and I read TUAW so it’s not surprising that I knew, but having said that I did not attend because I am the only employee NOT on vacation this time of year so I have to stay onboard and pick up the slack.
I like that it is in Boston, down with NYC and the yankees
lol
Not to be a downer, but when was the last time Wired was a respected news outlet?
I’ve read accounts on the web from a couple of people who say it was actually a good time as it was more about the individual developers than the “rock concerts” jobs has.
If Apple isn’t going to be there… of course nobody will come.
This, of course, is IDC’s fault. (IDC is the publisher of Macworld Magazine among others) They wanted to pull the tradeshow out of New York (why???) and put it in Boston because it would be cheaper.
Steve Jobs gets pissed off and decides that Apple doesn’t need to be in Beantown because there isn’t as much glamour, glitz, and press coverage as there would be in NYC. The result: Obvious. Noone wants to go to MacWorld Expo Boston.
It’s really not anything inherent to Boston. Boston can easily have a convension, but when Apple said they wouldn’t come if it were in Boston, the organizers should have known better. You don’t have an Apple show without Apple. When Apple threatened, they should have caved and just left it in NY.
I’ve been noticing that at the normal computer shows here in New England (show, right. Bunch of retailers throwing up booths and dumping hardware at bargain basement prices)… just three years ago a certain company was hosting them every weekend at different locations from Connecticut to Maine and you had trouble getting in the door much less moving about the isles…
Past year or two they’ve been ghost towns, and they’ve cut the schedule back to two or three shows a month…
I’ve noticed that those sorts of “computer shows” have been down since the late 90’s. Those shows are just vendors selling overpriced versions of yesterday’s models.
Yeah, attendance was down and vendors weren’t showing up, so lets hold it in a bigger hall that likely runs a costlier overhead. BRILLIANT. Mac all the way.
They call New York the Big Apple. You can immediately see that imagewise, Apple computers and New York are similiar. Apple computers represents in the computer world what New York represents in the business/culture world. The pride that comes out of someone saying they are a New Yorker or an Apple user are the same. There is a certain style to these type of people. They portray a kinda every day man but with a sort of sophistication and style. A tradeshow being moved out of the Big Apple to save money goes against everything that a New Yorker or an Apple user stands for. That’s why Jobs said he isn’t gonna do it. Apple and New York are married.
I was stupid enough to go to Macworld Boston yast year whithout knowing Apple wasn’t there, nobody was there. I hadn’t prechecked since I am only occasionally look at Mac web sites I not a fanboy anymore and didn’t care if Jobs showed but did care if Apple & developers showed. I was so mad I had an exchange with those MacWorld bastards that wouldn’t give my money back. I’m stilled fumed at it and helps me not want to get a mac still today besides technical issues. When I heard it was copley sq, didn’t need to check this time, nobody can fit into that place at least not the old shows we used to have at the JFK place.
The last NY show I went to though was pretty good, somebody has to do the miles.
Boston
soooooo… because ODC are a bunch or corporate bastards, you will not buy a Mac from a company that has no affiliation other than being a vendor?
It ought to be made known that Trade shows where Apple *IS* involved that attendance is up. This contrasts other computer trade shows where attendance is decidely down.
I see a trend happening within the computer industry.
Funny how the Apple fan boys can see good signs for Apple everywhere… I think people call that a delusion. Thanks for ruinning everybody elses tech forums experiences.
“Funny how the Apple fan boys can see good signs for Apple everywhere… I think people call that a delusion. Thanks for ruining everybody elses tech forums experiences.”
Yep you *ruined* it because your OS doesn’t even have a across the board spell checker like Mac OS X does.
There are only two companies making computers that are profitable right now and that’s Apple and Dell, IBM quit and HP is going to have layoffs in the tens of thousands.
Apple’s hardware sales are up double digit percentage wise and outstripped everyone else, the company posted it’s most profitable quarter on record.
Sure they don’t do as much volume (leaving the ipod out of it right now), but they are very profitable, and in business it’s not always about owning it all, but about profits.
Apple is green and growing, Dell is ripening and Microsoft is rotting.
Apple has opened over 100 high profile stores that are jam packed just about everyday, never did Gateway ever see the crowds Apple has.
Compaq is dead, Gateway is dead, E-machines is dying, HP is barely hanging on, IBM left, and Dell support is horrible and their computers the cheapest piece of garbage available.
I’d say the future for Apple is extremely bright, the iPod proves it.
Apple doesn’t need to own it all, just the most profitable part of the market. Dell can have the dummies, the low end and winblows.
and hardly anybody showed up?
Looks like a sign to me…
I understand Apple Computer is in dire financial straits. They are so strapped for cash that they couldn’t come up with the dough to fly even one marketing person coach from San Jose to Boston and put them up in a Motel 6.
(REMOVING TONGUE FROM CHEEK)
Guess you guys were part of the “DOS crowd” 20 something years ago that said a GUI and a mouse would never work and Mac’s were baby toys.
Apple is about change,
be afraid, be very afraid
they need to spill some of their 7.5 billion in cash. Release some of that bloat to acct#26935…..
Actually i think apple should invest its boatloads of cash in sealing the deal with content delivery. It desperately needs to win a spot in the market in HD movie/TV services. We’ll be seeing a lot about this over the coming year.
Apple does a few fluffy events each year.
But the only show that Apple cares about is WWDC.
Now if Apple put a tiny bit of money into making their developer machines cheaper… that would be interesting. Even if it was removing the “Select ADC” membership, that would knock the price down from $1500 to $1000 for a 1yr P4 machine rental. The price really should be no more than $500 for this rental.
One day Apple will realize developers are a good thing, not a bad thing. We can only hope they realize this sooner rather than later…
they also do a big(ger) deal at macworld san fran.. thats in january
I’m sorry you were fooled into thinking Apple would be there at the Boston conference. It is deceitful, although in all fairness it’s been that way for years now.
I just hope you weren’t also fooled by the ‘megahertz myth’: http://www.asia.apple.com/g4/myth/
So listen, buy up a lot of macs now before they switch to Intel and slow way down.
That’s why a long time ago, I discovered that I could create my own friends myself with my imagination. Now I always have a party, even if I invite no one, because my invisible friends are there. Perhaps companies should learn from this.
“This, of course, is IDC’s fault. (IDC is the publisher of Macworld Magazine among others) They wanted to pull the tradeshow out of New York (why???) and put it in Boston because it would be cheaper.
Steve Jobs gets pissed off and decides that Apple doesn’t need to be in Beantown because there isn’t as much glamour, glitz, and press coverage as there would be in NYC. The result: Obvious. Noone wants to go to MacWorld Expo Boston.”
It really was a matter of costs, at the time of the switch Apple wasn’t doing so well, the Mac magazines were suffereing from loss of ad revenue. Even Mac Addict looked like it was about to go under or switch to something else.
So it’s understandable about the switch to Boston, Steve knew what was coming down the pipe, the iPod, the iMac, the PowerMac G5, iTunes etc. but of course can’t revel this to anyone.
So while MacWorld was in Boston because it was cheaper, now is a good time for it to be moved back to NY.
Apple is hot again and it will be more profitable if IDC made the move back.
I bet Steve told IDC to trust him and not go to Boston, but IDC refused thinking Apple needed the MacWorld conference and the magazine more than they needed Apple. And IDC needed to save money.
So now it’s IDC that’s suffering and has to come back to the table.
Apple could use IDC, but I gues they wanted to prove they could get along without them.
Now it’s time to kiss and make up. *smack*
I found out about the show because I attended a concert at the Berklee School of Music, around the block from the convention center. Instead of charging ten bucks, they let me in free. The opening act featured a techno-rock band with a chick singer. Instead of having guitarists and drummers, they had four guys hunched over PowerBooks which they were busily programming for the entire show.
The act I came to see (Birdsongs of the Mesozoic) had regular musicians, but they also had a PowerBook controlling some drum machines and synth loops. They had a breakdown in their first song and the sax player cracked to the crowd, “He’s still using OS 9”.
I found out later that this event was co-promoted by MacWorld as an evening event for their attendees.
Paul G
You never, ever fark with Steve Jobs. Ever.
Yahoo! Said Boston was on par with last years numbers. WIRED ANTI-MAC SPIN
Korse said that many of the people that attended last year’s show returned this year. IDG said they expect the number to come in at approximately 8,000 attendees.
For exhibitors, which numbered about 63 compared to last year’s 75, Korse said IDG must continue to demonstrate that Macworld Expo is a worthwhile show.
“We have an event here that works,” said Korse. “We continue to do events that are substantially smaller than Macworld Expo. As long as Macworld Expo works, we’ll continue to do it.”