Thursday, June 16, 2005
Macworld Boston: is there still such a thing?
Anyone hear anything out of Boston lately?
I had honestly forgotten that there was still a summer Macworld Expo until IDG called me this week, trying to sell booth space to LoadPod. There's no way on earth, of course, that I'm going to drop five grand to exhibit at such a diminutive expo. But it did get me thinking that perhaps, just perhaps, I should attend the event as a member of the media. You get in free, you get expo-wide access, so why not? And although IDG has tightened up the requirements for media credentials over the past few years, I doubt I'd have a problem. If MacMischief won't get me in the door, then iPod Garage certainly will.
I attended the summer Macworld Expo every year from 1999 to 2002, and loved it every time..but they were all in New York City. I stopped attending when IDG annouced that they were inexplicably moving the thing to Boston, effectively committing suicide by moving to a town they knew Apple didn't consider to be large enough to bother showing up for. I didn't bother to attend that last New York-based Expo in 2003, and neither did anyone else. "Macworld Creative Pro" or whatever they called it in an attempt to gloss over the fact that Apple wasn't going to be there. It never even occurred to me to consider going to Boston last year, and come to think of it, I don't think I'll be attending this year either. If I'm going to head up north this summer for a week-long getaway, it'll be to New York City -- expo or no expo.
As far as Macworld Expo, I guess I'll just do what most folks do -- wait until January for a "real" Macworld Expo...and freeze my tail off in San Francisco.
Anyone hear anything out of Boston lately?
I had honestly forgotten that there was still a summer Macworld Expo until IDG called me this week, trying to sell booth space to LoadPod. There's no way on earth, of course, that I'm going to drop five grand to exhibit at such a diminutive expo. But it did get me thinking that perhaps, just perhaps, I should attend the event as a member of the media. You get in free, you get expo-wide access, so why not? And although IDG has tightened up the requirements for media credentials over the past few years, I doubt I'd have a problem. If MacMischief won't get me in the door, then iPod Garage certainly will.
I attended the summer Macworld Expo every year from 1999 to 2002, and loved it every time..but they were all in New York City. I stopped attending when IDG annouced that they were inexplicably moving the thing to Boston, effectively committing suicide by moving to a town they knew Apple didn't consider to be large enough to bother showing up for. I didn't bother to attend that last New York-based Expo in 2003, and neither did anyone else. "Macworld Creative Pro" or whatever they called it in an attempt to gloss over the fact that Apple wasn't going to be there. It never even occurred to me to consider going to Boston last year, and come to think of it, I don't think I'll be attending this year either. If I'm going to head up north this summer for a week-long getaway, it'll be to New York City -- expo or no expo.
As far as Macworld Expo, I guess I'll just do what most folks do -- wait until January for a "real" Macworld Expo...and freeze my tail off in San Francisco.
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