Apple Won't Be At Macworld Boston 311
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."
further comments (Score:5, Funny)
It never made sense. (Score:2, Funny)
Maybe... (Score:3, Funny)
Macworld (Score:4, Funny)
In other news... (Score:5, Funny)
Big Apple vs Bean Town (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Big Dig? (Score:3, Funny)
(Where it's being moved from)
communication breakdown... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:It never made sense. (Score:5, Funny)
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".
Re:Maybe... (Score:3, Funny)
Ironic, isn't it? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Can they afford to do this? (Score:5, Funny)
Boston not their key demographic (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Big Dig? (Score:5, Funny)
Special Guest Host (Score:3, Funny)
Tonight, appearing in place of MacWorld is....
Commedian Carrot Top.
RE: MacWorld Conference (Score:3, Funny)
Secret grudge against Boston? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Boo-freakin'-hoo (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Big Dig? (Score:3, Funny)
I'll believe it when ny building stops shaking from all of the impact hammering.
Re:Big Dig? (Score:5, Funny)
but then, so is 1986...
Hawaii (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Boston not their key demographic (Score:5, Funny)
Somebody mod parent post to 6
big apple (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Big Dig? (Score:5, Funny)
While I hope that you're right, I fear that you're wrong.
Re:Is it still Macworld? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:further comments (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Product release schedules (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Drive-through MacWorld (Score:2, Funny)
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.
Re:further comments (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I don't get it... (Score:5, Funny)
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."
Re:Can they afford to do this? (Score:4, Funny)
I take it you weren't at LinuxWorld this year
Yoiks! (Score:4, Funny)
Rule Number 1:
Never, I repeat, NEVER give the Slashdot crowd a setup line like this!
Yankee fans! (Score:1, Funny)
It's ok. The Red Sox are gonna win it all next year anyway. Then Boston won't need no stupid MacWorld.
Re:Can they afford to do this? (Score:3, Funny)
*picture me kicking myself in the ass*
I wish though... We geeks know how to party.
How can they abandon Media Access Control? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Maybe... (Score:2, Funny)
Word play (Score:2, Funny)
Re:further comments (Score:5, Funny)
No, that would be the Macworld conference in San Francisco.
-fester
Re:Can they afford to do this? (Score:3, Funny)
Apple flexing its new muscle: seeya, wimps. (Score:2, Funny)
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!
Re:Can they afford to diss NYC? (Score:4, Funny)
So, in other words, if MacWorld moves to Boston, then the terrorists have won , eh?
Only to 6? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Big Dig? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Maybe... (Score:3, Funny)
OOooh!!! I know, I know... (Score:3, Funny)
Or was that Radon?
Oh, Wait...
that's New York City? (Score:3, Funny)
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