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Macworld's ever-smaller tent, ever-bigger iPod circus

iPodlounge

Tuesday 11 January 2005, 1:33 pm
Keywords: Computer Topics , News Articles

By Jeremy Horwitz

Three years after Apple Computer's October 2001 introduction of the iPod, the company famous in technology circles for its Apple ][ and Macintosh personal computers is arguably even more famous in the mainstream for its portable music players. And while the bi-annual Macworld Expo - the American exposition of new Apple and third-party hardware and software - seems to shrink with each passing year, the presence and importance of iPod developers within that expo continues to grow.

And yet Macworld's tent is getting smaller. Expo host IDG has now shifted the San Francisco show's primary exhibition floor entirely into a single tent at Muscone Center South from its previous two-tent Muscone North and South spread. Though corporate inbreeding hasn't recently been foreign to the world of Apple third-party development, the gene pool looks - but perhaps only looks - smaller inside Macworld's convention hall.

http://www.ipodlounge.com/ipodnews.php?id=P6074

Mark says: I didn't realize they had moved the exhibition into just one building. My hip has been sore, but a single-room exhibition floor makes it more likely that I could navigate the floor successfully.