The Angry Drunk

So, Macworld 2010 has come and gone and now the post-mortem analy­sis can begin in earnest. Already sev­eral par­ties have weighed in on whether or not Macworld was a “suc­cess” this year; so I may as well throw in my two cents.

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Following the brouhaha over the future of the Macworld Conference and Expo is inter­est­ing to me, because I am essen­tially an out­sider here. When the Angry Mac Bastards do our thing there this year it will be the first time that I have attended a Macworld, ever. I sup­pose that this gives me a dif­fer­ent per­spec­tive on things than many of the peo­ple who have com­mented on the mat­ter. For one thing, my opin­ion isn’t col­ored by mem­o­ries (dis­torted or not) of pre­vi­ous Macworlds.

The biggest thing that stands out to me is that the major­ity of the peo­ple who seem to be beat­ing the “Macworld is doomed” drum are jour­nal­ists and blog­gers. That makes sense to me. I can fully under­stand how, if the main ben­e­fit that some­one derives from attend­ing a Macworld is being among the first to hear and report on the words of His Steveness, Apple’s absence makes the con­fer­ence point­less. And with­out an Apple booth to allow jour­nal­ists to get their grubby hands on Apple’s lat­est and great­est for their “first look” arti­cles, the show floor is also pretty worthless.

Of course, as oth­ers have pointed out, Macworld is not just about the

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