Macworld, The last days

We watched a performance of the Stanford Laptop Orchestra. About 15 laptops all strung together and conducted by the leader,a prof at Stanford. Neat stuff. You can watch some  video of it in my Flickr set.
 
   

We spent the rest of  the afternoon on the show floor looking for last minute deals. Can't say we found that many. But it was nice to see the floor without constantly considering things for video.
 

Apple says their done with Macworld, and when I first heard this I thought it was a negative decision. But we've found this show to be much less focused on the Mac and more fascinated with the iPod  and iPhone and all the products, cases, speakers etc, associated with those items. As well some gadgets that have nothing to do with any of the Apple line up had booths, giving the show floor almost a flea market feel at times.

So having spent time on the floor, I can understand why Apple see Macworld as something who's time has come and gone. I think some sort of show will continue, but in what form, who's to say. If there was one theme I heard in the few presentations we saw it's that our old notions of community, and how we relate to each other, share stuff, is changing as we speak.We saw everyone constantly twittering, blogging, photographing, videoing, their experience on the show floor. Macworld exists in the cloud as much as it does in the Moscone Centre.

These two shots were taken hours part, but ended up being of the same kid! He's not really into listening to Apple, he's into his colouring and then his software. An apt metaphor for the  changing times.

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