Comments on: Apple’s Press Release leaves many Questions left unanswered. http://www.applegazette.com/macworld/apples-press-release-leaves-many-questions-left-unanswered/ Your Ultimate Guide to Thinking Differently Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:10:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: reinharden http://www.applegazette.com/macworld/apples-press-release-leaves-many-questions-left-unanswered/comment-page-1/#comment-89976 reinharden Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:10:41 +0000 http://www.applegazette.com/macworld/apples-press-release-leaves-many-questions-left-unanswered/#comment-89976 Apple has been backing out of Macworlds for the past 15 years. If you don't follow such things, you probably don't remember that there used to be separate Macworlds held in such far flung places as Dallas, Hong Kong, Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, and Taiwan. Jobs has done keynote presentations for Macworlds in Boston, Paris, Tokyo and San Francisco. IDG is in the business of hosting trade shows. The more Macworlds they held, the more money Apple had to give them for booth space. Over the years, Apple and IDG have developed a very atagonistic relationship and Apple has been pushing Macworld further and further away for quite a long-time. Macworld Tokyo drew nearly 200,000 people at it's peak. The year after Apple refused to return it was cancelled. Macworld Boston lasted a bit longer, but not much. The remnants of Macworld Paris just faded away. Ask yourself this: "How does it serve Apple to hold off announcing updates to their consumer product line until 2 to 3 weeks after Christmas?" Apple doesn't need Macworld and Macworld is now in the way of Apple's future progress. This has little to nothing to do with Steve Jobs. reinharden Apple has been backing out of Macworlds for the past 15 years. If you don’t follow such things, you probably don’t remember that there used to be separate Macworlds held in such far flung places as Dallas, Hong Kong, Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, and Taiwan. Jobs has done keynote presentations for Macworlds in Boston, Paris, Tokyo and San Francisco.

IDG is in the business of hosting trade shows. The more Macworlds they held, the more money Apple had to give them for booth space. Over the years, Apple and IDG have developed a very atagonistic relationship and Apple has been pushing Macworld further and further away for quite a long-time.

Macworld Tokyo drew nearly 200,000 people at it’s peak. The year after Apple refused to return it was cancelled. Macworld Boston lasted a bit longer, but not much. The remnants of Macworld Paris just faded away.

Ask yourself this: “How does it serve Apple to hold off announcing updates to their consumer product line until 2 to 3 weeks after Christmas?”

Apple doesn’t need Macworld and Macworld is now in the way of Apple’s future progress. This has little to nothing to do with Steve Jobs.

reinharden

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