Wednesday, January 9, 2002 |
11:33 - Macworld SF
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At any rate, Macworld was quite cool. It seemed very much alive, especially around the dozens of new iMacs set up for people to play with. See the link for the page I set up using iPhoto-- warning, it contains one picture of me with facial hair and Kris making a very strange face.
It seemed that more floor space had been sold this year than last, which is a good sign. And people were snatching up the free iMac posters like there was no tomorrow. So it would seem that at least within the expo-going Mac community, the new iMac is a home run-- or at the very least, people are recognizing it as the same kind of thing that starts out funky but will grow to become a phenomenon, just like the original.
I talked to Don Witt at the Daemon News booth, thanking him and his organization for the recent review. He suddenly got all excited and seemed interested in setting up some kind of technology conference/book signing type of thing. He also said they're packaging a copy of FreeBSD Unleashed with another (more beginner) book in a CD package they sell, and they're apparently moving a lot of copies. So that's good news-- I hadn't had much feedback on sales except for a couple of royalty statements which probably aren't very representative of the long run. So that was cool.
There was hardly a non-LCD monitor to be seen, by the way, and about 90% of the software being demoed was for OS X. So it looks like wide-scale adoption is really happening. Awesome! There were also some really ostentatious booths, like the Procreate one with its rows of Quicksilver-G4s-and-17"-flat-panels on easels, a rig which must have cost $100K just for the hardware. Looks like people are willing to spend money, which I wasn't expecting in this day and age.
It may be a sign of real renewed energy.
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