RSSApple to pull out of Macworld 2010, if there is one
By Scott M. Fulton, III | Published December 16, 2008, 5:37 PM
In a completely unexpected announcement today, Apple Inc. stated that next month's appearance at IDG's Macworld Expo will be the company's last, as it scales back its appearances at other presenters' trade shows worldwide.
Monday, January 5, will be Apple CEO Steve Jobs' final address to the Macworld Expo at Moscone Center in San Francisco, the company said in a prepared statement today. The company has released no details as to why, though it's likely that the company will continue to produce its own rollout events, probably at Moscone, at times and dates of its own choosing.
Two weeks ago, Mac software producer Adobe joined accessories product manufacturer Belkin, hard drive maker Seagate, and Google beta software maker Google as the most prominent major names to pull out of next month's Macworld Expo, leaving Jobs and company nearly all by their lonesome.
Apple's pullout announcement could also serve to answer questions as to what the company was planning to talk about this month. After the rollouts of new MacBooks and MacBook Pros, and the new iPhone 3G and remodeled iPod nano, concerted Apple watchers have noticed there may be very little for the company to improve. Excitement about the possibility of a "Mac Mini nano," which is the latest topic of rumor and speculation, seems to be garnering little more than a dull murmur at present. Now, the main topic at hand could very well be a retrospective of years past, including the history-making iPhone rollout at Macworld 2007.
"Having conquered computing/entertainment media and realizing there is nothing more to do...Apple retires and enjoys their success."
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|Its amazing.. the people that MAKE the mac will not show up... Just shoot the poor computer firm in the head now... only thing keeping them around is the Ipod and Iphone. Even that is starting to shrink in market share.
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|They have shot themselves in the head so many times once more wouldn't matter.
They just scratch and keep lumbering on.
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|Apple has simply grown way beyond the confines of MacWorld and looks to do much bigger and better things.
Apple is the greatest company on earth led by the greatest CEO on earth. Relax people, they know what they're doing.
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|For ****s sake! Do you read this much into everything that Apple say? What will you say when Jobs dies, I wonder. You actually make all mac users look bad, honestly you do. You're not even a fanboy, they have sense to some degree. I know what you are. You're an embarrassment. To BetaNews, to Apple, and to yourself. Do us and yourself a favor you vegetable, go shrivel up and die.
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|You're right.
Apple has simply grown to big for an event focusing on things Apple.
Yawn.
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|ha.
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|Steve is doing fine, relax...for now ;)
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|Pull out? I thought they liked to leave it in... or does that just pertain to their customers?
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|Sorry but you must have Apple confused with Microshaft.
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|By the way, Jobs and the rest of apple's board of directors ended up settling for $14 million last month in compensation for their stock options fraud. Most of it will go to lawyers.
Why couldn't they come clean and pay up when they were confronted with it in the first place? They would have save MILLIONS, and a lot of embarrassement.
Instead Apple & Jobs insist on continuing to play these dumb games.
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|That's business....... And why proper regulation is needed since Reaganomics caused all of this to get out of hand in the first place.
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|*shakes head*
Reagan made them commit fraud, hmmm?
Moron.
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|BTW, Tool - you mentioned the EE for your wife a few threads ago...
If you haven't already bought it, may I suggest taking a quick look at the Lenovo IdeaPad S10 - essentially the same thing with the MAJOR expansion advantage of having a Expresscard/34 slot for expansion - allowing for the use of a 3G wireless modem! (among many other IO capabilities should the need arise).
Also, the MSI Wind U100 might be worth a gander as well...
Good shopping!
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|I'll look at them, but if there's a major price difference, I'll stick with the Asus. I don't see any need now or in the future to expand it since it'll basically be nothing more than a web-kiosk.
Thanks.
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|That's funny... I was considering a 1GB/160GB blue S10 over the weekend. I agree, they are nice. They've dropped the price on both models by $50 not too long ago.
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|Believe it. It's a "security" issue. Steve Jobs and his gang have committed so many acts of perjury and fraud, that they need maximum security now in order to protect them from getting legally served with even more lawsuits.
Even when he does get served by courts, they somehow weasel him out of it and he is able to somehow not show up to court and get away with it.
On another note, I am flabergasted by the sheer number of computer illiterates still out there.
People, Apple is just a marketing company and that's all.
I am truly amazed that people buy these obsolete buggy iGarbage from apple...Hats off to their marketing department for conning and brainwashing so many idiots out there...But, I bought an HP iPaq for a couple of hundred dollars - it came with a phone, full featured GPS with voice directions, and oh yea a full Windows Mobile OS long before Crapple's iPhone ever existed.
And why would anyone pay over $3000 for a crippled, obsolete-out-of the box Apple Mac OS X computer? I bought an HP pavillion laptop, fully loaded, with DVD/Blue Ray, Super Hi-res wide screen, 2 Gig RAM, HD Tuner, built-in web cam etc. etc. etc. for under $1000
And Apple Mac OS X is based on FreeBSD, an open-source Unix look-alike, available FREE for the PC back in 1992, with a artsy-fartsy GUI. Whoopy Doo..
It is too expensive, too buggy, and the only software available is a bunch of dinky puzzles written by 14 year olds. No engineering or scientific applications available for "Mac OS X"...
Apple has a long history of fraud, racism and corruption...Steve Jobs and Nancy Heinen (and her shyster subordinates) are both knowing criminal participants in the stock options scam, and were caught trying to cover it up.
They were caught red-handed in early 2006 when a former employee who was cheated out of all of his stock after being wrongfully dismissed, filed a lawsuit against Apple Con-puter.
In short, dont waste your time and money on apple...
PS: If Apple was supposed to be "invulnerable" to viruses, why are there so many security fixes being passed around? Even with all of Apple's virus and spyware vulnerabilities...which i'Tard would target a virus against an con-puter "OS" used by 2% of people out there?
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|LOL :)
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|Laughing..and I thought, at times, I went a wee bit over the top.
RrememberMe has shown there is another top up there..guess I'll just have to keep on climbing.:)
everyone have a nice day:)
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|Hmmm...Steve Jobs losing weight each time you see him...not looking healthy at all and now all of a sudden the last KEYNOTE he is not going to show up...this is not the real reason...
Watch the stock of Apple start to slide with fears he is gravely sick and perhaps closer to death then he wants us all to believe...
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|"very little for the company to improve."
I haven't read anything so completely asinine since the last comment made by the Canadian socialist who is still trying to bum a ride from his mommy in her fancy new car to pick up his 'for local pickup only' iPhone that he ordered from a location 1000km away!
Yup, as they release their first new portables using technology current 3 years ago on the eve of the release of Nehalem, what could there be to improve?
LOL!
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|Retard.
You sound like being a socialist is a bad thing? BTW, I'm also a LIBERAL... [evil laugh]
Quality of life up here is far better than what more and more Americans have to suffer for in your failed way of thinking. You do know the difference between standard of living and the more important quality of life? Did you know that the average Canadian lives 4 more years than the average American? Our educational system is also ranked much higher than yours as well. I truly feel sorry for you and your willful ignorance.
You really should up your meds..
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|*laughing*
Still trying to pass of that Quality of Life BS?
The metrics they use to rank those are ridiculous. Sure, if we lowered our standards, cut healthcare, decreased our income guidelines for what qualifies as "poverty level", we could rank higher there too.
Funny how that works, by making a country *worse*, you can get your rank higher on many of the QoL metrics.
You're so full of BS it's gotta hurt, man.
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|They live longer IF they can schedule their critical care needs during months when the entire health care network is not shut down for cost savings and IF they can get to the states where someone can actually see them during their lifetime.
My relatives up their shake their heads and say they wish Quebec would succeed - and that their provinces (Ontario and Alberta) would become states! And they express their 'radicalism'(they're dangerous, folks! ;-) by rooting for American hockey teams! LOLOLOL!
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|let me say in advance- internetworld, SHUT UP.
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|"Jobs has run out of ideas and is too old to be talking to you."
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