Walk Through Mac World Expo 2010

By Tuesday February 16, 2010

Last one? I think so.



37 Comments
  1. mcpepants says:
    2/16/2010 at 1:16 am

    lol that was great, no booth babes =(…

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  2. pedro says:
    2/16/2010 at 2:06 am

    To be renamed Loser’s Expo

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  3. Ah_Yea says:
    2/16/2010 at 2:07 am

    It looks busy enough to me. Is it so expensive to put on that even though it’s fairly busy they cannot make any money?

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  4. FRAGaLOT says:
    2/16/2010 at 2:31 am

    No booth babes, no Apple Inc, yet IBM was there?

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  5. Rider says:
    2/16/2010 at 2:36 am

    @#3
    First it’s not that busy.
    Second that’s the entire show, you should not be able to walk the entire floor in 7 minutes. I saw a map and it’s tiny.
    Third, it’s that small and the crowd is that thin. There is really no reason to have it. No is interested in it at all.

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  6. Zybch says:
    2/16/2010 at 3:42 am

    #2 All the non brainwashed computer users called it that anyway.

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  7. KMFIX says:
    2/16/2010 at 4:38 am

    I can see a place for a more hardcore, geek oriented Mac event…maybe in a place that isn’t so expensive to put stuff on at. Where small/garage operations could even exhibit. I’d go to that..

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  8. FRAGaLOT says:
    2/16/2010 at 4:59 am

    It’s really just a place for lame vendors to shill out their Mac/iPhone accessories (gel covers, stickers, and more frivolous crap) that no one really needs. I saw many booths referring to security (gee I thought Macs didn’t need that?)

    Not a single iPad in sight, IBM seems to have the biggest presence at a *MAC* Expo. That’s just flat out WRONG.. even to a non-mac fanboy that just WEIRD.

    I was a big Atari computer (8bit) user back in the 80s, and early 90s and the Expo shows we had weren’t much bigger than this Expo. Just vendors selling nick-nacks. Little to no software development demos. In fact it was probably located at the same hall that MacWorld was at.

    Next MacWorld Expo, out of Steve’s garage where they built the first Apples in the 70s.

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  9. Walter Bishop says:
    2/16/2010 at 5:04 am

    and no one even said “Hi” to John whilst he walked the floor …

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  10. RTaylor says:
    2/16/2010 at 5:09 am

    I have watched several of these videos you’ve done. I don’t understand, where is your entourage? Where are the groupies and the screaming autograph seekers? I guess you had on one of your guises, incognito no doubt.

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  11. Eric says:
    2/16/2010 at 5:37 am

    I went to the SCTE cable tech expo last fall and saw a similar situation: Motorola and Cisco, the two biggest players in cable, greatly decreased their booth size, no one really looking at the booth stuff, just catching up with old friends.

    I really think the days of the big convention are done. All of the product information is online already (in fact they just handed out business card CDs and thumb drives with their catalogs and literature), travel budgets are gone, and everyone’s older. If you wait a little while, the keynotes for all the big shows are online anyway, and many of the small sessions are posted at the presenter’s web site as well.

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  12. Bastian says:
    2/16/2010 at 6:10 am

    Why are so many people wearing “Members Only” like jackets!?! I can only hope that conventions like this only help the human genome contain unwanted traits. Doh!

    Ironically, I have used a Mac since 1988.

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  13. tdkyo says:
    2/16/2010 at 6:11 am

    #10

    John dressed up as the Tech Grouch. No body noticed him.

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  14. Losers lounge says:
    2/16/2010 at 6:22 am

    YAWN!..Damn..

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  15. Rufus says:
    2/16/2010 at 6:37 am

    Yikes! Not a single booth babe. The joie-de-vivre is all gone.

    I like Macs (except the price), but this expo is so dead you’d think it was for Amigas.

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  16. FRAGaLOT says:
    2/16/2010 at 6:42 am

    #15 Amiga expo… nailed it dude! LOL

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  17. pedro says:
    2/16/2010 at 6:59 am

    #6 You’re right. To be renamed Sad Loser’s Expo.

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  18. Awake says:
    2/16/2010 at 7:17 am

    Last one I attended was 2 years ago, when Apple still participated. It was a complete waste of time. 30% of the booths were for iPod / iPhone covers, 30% were for iPod speakers (including the infamous toilet paper holder iPod stand, and 30% was for one-software-product microcompanies that have since failed/ Maybe 10% was interesting. The only thing that was a benefit is that I had the RAM in a Mac-Mini installed for free when I bought it at the show (at 50% of the disgusting prices that Apple charges for the same thing).

    This year the most ‘exciting’ thing seems to be leather gloves that work with touchscreens. Big huge yawn.

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  19. qb says:
    2/16/2010 at 7:22 am

    These “vendor booth” shows are all dead. The internet has wiped them out like newspapers.

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  20. MacTexan says:
    2/16/2010 at 8:02 am

    I was there and the expo portion of Macworld was definitely smaller than the three I attended in the past. Vendors stayed away in droves, but the conference (the part no media bothers to cover) was as busy as I’ve ever seen. Maybe it’s our crappy economy. Maybe they didn’t think over 30,000 of us would show up. I think some vendors may be regretting their decision to abstain. Trade shows may be a thing of the past, but Mac geeks will show up to Macworld because like other enthusiasts, we really like getting together once a year. Bikers have Sturgis, NASCAR fans have Daytona and Mac geeks have Macworld. If you think we’re losers, that’s your right. Just like its within my rights to think you’re an idiot to mock something you don’t understand.

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