“IDG World Expo on Friday said they have cancelled Macworld Expo Boston and will instead focus their efforts on a single conference and expo in San Francisco. The event, which has been a mainstay of East Coast conferences for almost 20 years, has been axed just two years after returning to Boston from New York City,” Jim Dalrymple reports for MacCentral.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Cancelled? Euthanized is more like it. For some time now, the only real MacWorld Expo takes place once per year in San Francisco, CA. Furthermore, the East coast exercise in futility gave the wrong impression that Macs are unpopular and that nobody attends Macworld Expos. As we suggested back in July, “Change the name or put the thing out of its misery.” We’re glad they took the latter route.
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Pseudo MacWorld Boston a snorefest – July 15, 2005
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Already wrecked pseudo Macworld backing out of Boston; wants to stay in NYC – August 08, 2003
Pseudo MacWorld NYC to be a snorefest – July 14, 2003
MacWorld Boston 2004 Fruitless – October 16, 2002
Macworld returning to Boston (traffic hellhole) – October 07, 2002
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