No more MacWorld! Good bye Steve!

[Lucbert]

This MacWorld is going to be the last one ever! And Steve Jobs isn't delivering the Keynote, Phil Schiller is going to do it!
BOOM!
NOOO!
Lfe is now meaningless!

 

[EricNau]

Ongoing discussion here: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/617884/

 

[Gray-Wolf]

How is it the last macworld? Have they announced it as the last? Is it just that Steve may or may not be there?

 

[OllyW]

How is it the last macworld? Have they announced it as the last? Is it just that Steve may or may not be there?

Last show for Apple & Steve not there.

CUPERTINO, California—December 16, 2008—Apple® today announced that this year is the last year the company will exhibit at Macworld Expo. Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, will deliver the opening keynote for this year’s Macworld Conference & Expo, and it will be Apple’s last keynote at the show. The keynote address will be held at Moscone West on Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 9:00 a.m. Macworld will be held at San Francisco’s Moscone Center January 5-9, 2009.

Apple is reaching more people in more ways than ever before, so like many companies, trade shows have become a very minor part of how Apple reaches its customers. The increasing popularity of Apple’s Retail Stores, which more than 3.5 million people visit every week, and the Apple.com website enable Apple to directly reach more than a hundred million customers around the world in innovative new ways.

Apple has been steadily scaling back on trade shows in recent years, including NAB, Macworld New York, Macworld Tokyo and Apple Expo in Paris.

 

[Gray-Wolf]

Maybe they could just do keynotes straight to podcast then.