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Macworld Expo Boston 2005 registration begins

updated 03:00 pm EDT, Tue April 5, 2005

Macworld Expo Boston 05


IDG has opened registration for this summer's in Boston. The show takes place July 11th-14th at the Hynes Convention Center, rather than the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center that was used last year. "The BCEC is a beautiful venue, but the Hynes is a better fit for Macworld Boston," a spokesperson told MacNN in November. 2005 marks the second year in a row that the east coast Macworld Expo has been held in Boston. The East coast expo was traditionally a Boston show, but was moved to New York for 1998-2003.


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  1. beyere

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    I

    I miss MWNY.

  1. Go Bells

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    Wrong Name

    The show that took place last year, as well as what is most likely to take place this year, is not worthy of the title "Macworld Expo"-- Last year's show was more like a small computer fair.. There were too many "booths" taken up by chair-massage people, local user groups and other non-typical or non-industry groups.. We were a vendor there last year and we are not planning on going as we feel that this year's show will be even smaller (I doubt that folks who paid to attend last year's show will be tricked into coming again).... To get this show back on the radar screen, they need to entice large companies and other to come exhibit... That's what brings people to a tradeshow... NOT the chair massage people and the local user group chapter booths...

  1. denim

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    So far,

    ...you're the only one who does. NYC is too difficult to get to and expensive.

  1. testudo

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    Dead horse

    Hmm, I wonder how long IDG is going to beat this horse until they realize its dead. Without Apple there's no show, and Apple doesn't want to go east anymore (the move to Boston was a god-send as it gave them the excuse they were looking for to get out). And past the anticipated keynotes (which everyone awaited to find out what wasn't going to be announced so they could get on-line and b**** about it), there's little else to these things. Platform expos are so passe. Its the industry specific expos where the money is going to (and NAB is coming up!). If you sell a graphics program, you're more likely to find prospective buyers at a graphics expo then you are at a Mac expo, where you're just fighting to be seen, hoping someone in your field will come down you aisle, see your booth, recognize that it has something to do with their profession/hobby, and stop and take a look.

  1. W. Ian Blanton

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    Without Apple...

    Without Apple it's a show about Mac _users_ and not about Apple. Is that gonna be enough? I don't know. We'll see what this year is like.

    We (Tech Superpowers) exhibited last year by lucky coincidence. It was good business for us, we got a lot of good business from the show, enough so that we're planning on doing it again this year. We certainly don't need to be "tricked" into exhibiting.

    The whole "fighting to be seen" thing is what made last MWBOS good, I actually NOTICED the vendors there, unlike the last MWBOS before it went to NYC, where I couldn't name any vendor that wasn't a "name", and I'd just be guessing them.

    I admit to bias; we had fun at the last Expo and want to have fun there again. Also it's around the corner from us, which is extra cool. I think IDG has a good idea, making it more user oriented, and if Apple did send a few people over, I think that'd be cool, too.

    Worst case, at least we were displaying at the "Last Mac World Boston". Which is what I said last year. Let's see how many years I get to keep saying it. *grin*

  1. hayesk

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    Reason to go...

    I don't see why Apple needs to be there. Everyone knows what's coming from Apple. An expo is for seeing all the third party developers - ones you haven't heard of and ones you forgot about.

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