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Macworld/iWorld Goes on Hiatus, No 2015 Event Planned
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That was the claimed attendance. It's been shown the numbers were nowhere near that good. More likely around 60K - which is still pretty significant.
The November print issue (the last) came with instructions on adding Macworld to your Zinio account (or you must create a Zinio account.) I guess we'll get the remaining digital issues until we renew or let the subscription expire.
Not going to happen.
Because they can generate as much if not more interest on their own timetable.
This does not surprise me. I did not attend last year and the total lack of "Where were you?" calls and emails I did not get told me this show jumped the shark.
My take is it'll be consolidated into a more general show for mobile devices that is not all Apple exclusive.
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Comdex imploded under it's own weight and lack of marketing beyond the desktop realm. They could have embraced mobile but they let other shows move into its place. CES is now the go-to show for technology in Vegas.
While I don't miss MacWorld that much, Comdex is greatly missed with its over the top promotions, booths, characters and after hours parties. Still have some photo albums where the children of those whom in the party pics are almost of age to see mom and dad back-in-the-day.
My take is it'll be consolidated into a more general show for mobile devices that is not all Apple exclusive.
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Same thing happened to COMDEXI hope apple sees the news and does something, like attending again instead of hosting its own events. why did they stop?
Comdex imploded under it's own weight and lack of marketing beyond the desktop realm. They could have embraced mobile but they let other shows move into its place. CES is now the go-to show for technology in Vegas.
While I don't miss MacWorld that much, Comdex is greatly missed with its over the top promotions, booths, characters and after hours parties. Still have some photo albums where the children of those whom in the party pics are almost of age to see mom and dad back-in-the-day.
I am kinda sad about the print magazine being discontinued. I really enjoyed reading that.
Does anyone know of any other print Mac/Apple focused magazines?
Does anyone know of any other print Mac/Apple focused magazines?
First TCP/IP address communications goes back to November 1977 just months after the launch of the Apple ][ in June of 1977.
Supposedly one of the first third party expansion cards for the Apple ][ was an Arcnet card shipping with Telnet app running TCP/IP and a library to write TCP/IP apps.
The first Macworld was in February of 1985.
There's something I always say about the internet: "the internet is great, it's full of people who have already wasted their time for you".
But I think I now have a second internetism to add to that. "On the internet, you are always wrong and somebody else is always right".
Technology magazines are a dying breed. My last print campaign for an app had almost now boost to sales. We have moved to all on-line promotion.
I'll never forget that show - the Mac was only a year old and everything was new. I'm pretty sure the HyperDrive made its debut there. Not to mention HabaWord.
I liked (laughing at) their ad that made it out to be an "ifane vent". I don't know that there will ever be a cool time like the '90s/'00s that made such things so popular, again. The design cool, mainly, and all the one more things.
It won't come back in 2015. This is the end. Apple really know how to screw people over when they want to. The cost of attending was a drop in the ocean for Apple awash with cash as they are.
I really hope we don't have to wait a whole year again before any new Apple products in 2015. I find myself buying more and more kit from other manufacturers just because there's such a long wait for the Apple updates.
I really hope we don't have to wait a whole year again before any new Apple products in 2015. I find myself buying more and more kit from other manufacturers just because there's such a long wait for the Apple updates.
It is sad to see shows like this go. Besides being platforms to launch products, it was also a huge opportunity to network with people with similar interests face to face, or meet the developer of an amazing app you love and shake their hand. Businesses and society in general seem to think that the Internet and social media make all of it obsolete, but I think it makes it all the more necessary.
Sure you can reach more audience online, sure it is much cheaper, but you can't connect with 'real' people, you end up connecting with avatar and a blocks of text. There is no human element. No opportunities to share ideas or thoughts that may never come about otherwise. No opportunity for two small product makers from opposite ends of the country to discover each other's product, meet up for a beer after the show and collaborate on what might be the next big thing.
That is the tradgity in the decline of trade shows in any industry.
Sure you can reach more audience online, sure it is much cheaper, but you can't connect with 'real' people, you end up connecting with avatar and a blocks of text. There is no human element. No opportunities to share ideas or thoughts that may never come about otherwise. No opportunity for two small product makers from opposite ends of the country to discover each other's product, meet up for a beer after the show and collaborate on what might be the next big thing.
That is the tradgity in the decline of trade shows in any industry.
It's a huge shame, but that's just how it goes; in the Apple world there's really only one big name to have at your event, so it was doomed to struggle when they pulled out.
I don't agree that the word hiatus means it could return, these days it's just another way of saying something's over; the only difference is that it punishes the loyal fans who cling to hope when there really isn't any. I can't think of anything I've liked lately that went on hiatus and ever came back
I don't agree that the word hiatus means it could return, these days it's just another way of saying something's over; the only difference is that it punishes the loyal fans who cling to hope when there really isn't any. I can't think of anything I've liked lately that went on hiatus and ever came back
I am sorry to say I do not believe those expos are relevant any more.
No body cares about computer apps any more. Most people got their favorite apps and websites there is hardly any space for new comers.
Photoshop, Excel, Gmail, FireFox..etc
All the rage is now about smartphones and new social networks.
Also those expos were in the days when communication was a lot slower and people did not have 10mbps connection where they can watch 10 different hands-on review for free on their smartphones of everything new out there.
its a natural death I guess
No body cares about computer apps any more. Most people got their favorite apps and websites there is hardly any space for new comers.
Photoshop, Excel, Gmail, FireFox..etc
All the rage is now about smartphones and new social networks.
Also those expos were in the days when communication was a lot slower and people did not have 10mbps connection where they can watch 10 different hands-on review for free on their smartphones of everything new out there.
its a natural death I guess
They were a place to see cool hardware that you'd never see otherwise. I remember in about 1990 Radius had a booth and in one corner had a Mac IIx with six NuBus video cards in it, each driving a 19" color monitor. The six monitors were in a vertical rack and they had the screen saver Pyro running on it. The firework animation would shoot up through all six displays and blow up on the top one, raining down through all of them. About $40,000 in hardware showing a $20 screen saver.