Followup on MacWorld Boston 2004

[wdlove]

Originally posted by pdrayton
Well, I live in Boston, and it's a second-tier city. Boston's selection as the host city for the DNC doesn't have anything to do with Boston being "first-tier". Also, if Steve Jobs came to the Mac expo in Boston, I doubt he'd hang around for a month just to see the Democrats at their convention.

If Steve Jobs is going to attend an expo on the East Coast then he's also going to want easy access to live network news interviews where he can tout Apple's new stuff without his competitors butting in. CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, etc all provide the opportunity to pop-in for live interviews that will directly reach consumers who are the target market for those products.

Boston is second-tier, and that's a hard pill for many aloof Bostonians to swallow.

I don't consider myself to be aloof. Just trying to be a booster in a city that I have lived in for 20 years as on this coming July. Hopefully the DNC convention will show us as a truly world class city. I think that if you live in a city you should try to be positive.

My real hope is that there will still be a MacWorld Boston. I will have hope until Steve & IDG have a press release saying that it has been cancelled.

 

[pdrayton]

I don't consider myself to be aloof. Just trying to be a booster in a city that I have lived in for 20 years as on this coming July. Hopefully the DNC convention will show us as a truly world class city. I think that if you live in a city you should try to be positive.

And I wasn't commenting about you. I stated that Boston was a "second-tier" city and that it was "a hard pill for many aloof Bostonians to swallow". I wasn't refering to you specifically, nor to everyone in Boston.

Being proud of one's city and wanting to be a booster is a good thing. But, the population facts are indisputable: Boston ranks below cities such as Houston, Phoenix, San Diego, Detroit, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, Columbus Ohio, Memphis and even Milwaukee. Plus, Boston lacks national media opportunities available in Manhattan.

I just think that regardless of Boston's merits as a host city, Steve Jobs has needs that Boston can't fill... being able to bounce from studio to studio doing live nationally broadcast interviews. Companies constantly need to evaluate the value of attending trade shows, and Apple may have discovered that an Expo in Boston, or any other city, just doesn't cut it for them anymore.

I think a Mac Expo in Boston could be a success without Jobs here. But, If IDG feels an expo in Boston needs Apple's presence, they should have run it by Apple prior to making the move.

 

[redeye]

NYC

When Macworld hits NYC again, check out the
River Project.
It looks like the Santa Monica pier all over again,
people jogging and rollerskating on the water
with sailboats and small cruiseliners going by.
PLUS you can get a 2 bedroom down there for a mere 2.5 million !