Macworld and Apple

[Mac Reporter]

Apple's absence nibbles core at Macworld

BOSTON--Organizers and attendees remain upbeat about the Macworld conference being held here this week, despite Apple Computer's decision not to participate.

While some conference attendees harbored mild resentment toward Apple, most people at the show on Monday were looking forward to the next several days. The Macworld show floor officially opens Tuesday, but a number of individuals made the trek to the brand new Boston Convention and Exhibition Center on Monday to look around, while exhibitors erected conference displays.

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[Mac Reporter]

In absentia, Jobs still towers over Macworld

BOSTON--Despite the fact that Apple Computer Chief Executive Steve Jobs chose not to attend the ongoing Macworld conference, the company's mercurial founder still managed to remain at the center of the show's attention.

When Apple announced its decision not to participate in the Macworld Boston conference it became clear Jobs wouldn't occupy his traditional role as the event's opening keynote speaker. Instead, show organizer IDG World Expo put together a reunion of the design team that built the first Macintosh desktop computers at Apple more than 20 years ago.

And rather than giving Jobs credit as a key member of that effort, the panel of designers used the event to repeatedly deride the executive, saying his style of management had threatened the Mac's very existence. The group even parodied Jobs' taste in clothes, draping the executive's trademark black turtleneck and jeans over a chair on the stage to stand in the CEO's place.

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