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From: RBAUER@oregon.uoregon.edu (Robert Bauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MacWorld Expo?
Message-ID: <12971@oregon.uoregon.edu>
Date: 27 Dec 89 00:03:41 GMT
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In article <129134@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>, shiffman%basselope@Sun.COM (Hank Shiffman) writes:
> In article <17960@netnews.upenn.edu> meuchen@grad2.cis.upenn.edu.UUCP (Paul Eric Menchen) writes:
>>In article <8149@cs.yale.edu> jellinghaus-robert@yale.UUCP writes:
>>>In article <24895@cup.portal.com> Armadillo@cup.portal.com (Russ Armadillo Coffman) writes:
>>>>Why is MacWorld in April instead of January? Beats me. But this date has
>>>>been set for some time. -Russ
>>>
>>>Aw, c'mon, y'all!  We've all seen Apple do this expo-delaying thing before,
>>>and it always means the same thing:  New Product Introductions.  They've
>>>got something up their sleeve that won't be ready for January, but will be
>>>by April.
>>
>>As I recall reading on the net a few days (maybe a week) after the
>>earthquake hit San Francisco, the Expo was delayed because of this.
>>Apple lost a lot of machines, had some problems, MacWorld lost two
>>writers, and all other sorts of hell broke loose, so quit trying to
>>blame Apple - it's not their fault.
>>
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> 
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It's the fault of the people who put on the expo.  They didn't think that it
would be a problem getting the Moscone Center in January and didn't bother
reserving it in time, and the boat show took the only slot available.  As
someone who'e been to several expos as an exhibitor, and experienced this
"management" style first-hand, I'm not the least bit surprised that they
screwed up the scheduling.