"Well, they say they won't be there, but without Apple
I'd be amazed if there was a Macworld for Apple not to attend.
"I've seen this coming from years down the road. In 1999 and
2000, Comdex, which was the techie trade show had more than 200,000
attendees. It was a city within the city of Las Vegas. The Comdex
shows were where Bill Gates introduced Windows 95, 98, 2000, and
XP. It was the show where Microsoft Windows became Windows the
force. And, in spring 1999, when Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates
virtually faced off with each other at Comdex, it was, in many
ways, Linux's coming of age. By 2004, Comdex was dead."
