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Wed, 17 Dec 2008 Macworld Expo responds to Apple exiting Expo

We are on track for a terrific show this year says IDG World Expo vice president

Jim Dalrymple Macworld.com

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I just got off the phone with Paul Kent, IDG World Expo vice president and general manager, in the aftermath of Apple's announcement that Steve Jobs won't keynote the show and that Apple will pull out of the show after 2009.

Here's Kent's complete statement:

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"We are on track for a terrific show this year, with strong attendance and nearly 500 exhibitors showcasing their products at this January's event."

"Macworld Conference & Expo has thrived for 25 years due to the strong support of tens of thousands of people in the Mac community worldwide who use Macworld as a way to find great products, partake in professional development training and cultivate their personal and professional networks."

"We are committed to serve their interests at the Moscone Center, January 4-8, 2010. Future events will continue to provide quality education, dynamic product viewing and will additionally focus on the amazing ways people are putting Apple products to work across all endeavors from desktops to iPhones to games to music."

"We look forward to many successful years of Macworld to come."

IDG World Expo, like Macworld.com and Macworld.co.uk, is owned by IDG.

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Count Arthur said on Wed, 17 Dec 2008

Is it not like having an airshow without aircraft?

TN said on Wed, 17 Dec 2008

What PR twaddle. I bet he's gutted.

Robert Chambers said on Wed, 17 Dec 2008

Deja vu. They released a similar statement after Apple withdrew from the East coast Macworld. That event is only a faint memory now. MWSF can look forward to the same fate in all likelihood.

Charko said on Wed, 17 Dec 2008

Methinks he doth protest to much.

Charko said on Wed, 17 Dec 2008

. . . Whoops! Make that 'too much'.

Mark Wastling said on Wed, 17 Dec 2008

Please, let get real. Apple no longer needs a venue to promote its products, they have the Apple Store for that. They make great products, and if I want to find out about them I'll go there. But for the wider community and Non-Apple vendors. Surely that is what Macworld is all about. Apple will be there, they just wont have a glitzy stand that upstages everone elses.

james Zuppicich said on Thu, 18 Dec 2008

this is a really boneheaded move on apples part. Any company that disrespects its user base like apple has, wont have that user base for long...

Tom B said on Thu, 18 Dec 2008

I reckon it will kill the shows. If they can't support the public shows why the hell should anyone else. The Apple Stores are too clinical and the prices laughable.

I can do without they keynote speeches though - what a waste of time when the Chinese factory workers have posted pictures for the few months before.

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