The year was 1998, and it was the summer Macworld Expo in New York.
Now that the excitement of Apple 's Macworld Expo is over, it's time for some hard numbers.
Yet investors were disappointed after last week's Macworld Expo, with Apple Chief Executive SteveJobsSteve Jobs tweaking Apple's lineup rather than adding anything revolutionary.
Now, as many as 85, 000 Apple Computer fans make a pilgrimage to the MacWorld expo, the annual four-day event at San Francisco's Moscone Center.
Yet investors were disappointed after last week's Macworld Expo, with Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs tweaking Apple's lineup rather than adding anything revolutionary.
Apple is expected to step closer towards the idea of the computer as an entertainment centre at its Macworld Expo, which starts in San Francisco on Tuesday.
As he prepared for the 2007 Macworld Expo, 19-year-old inventor Ben Kaufman wondered how he could ever top the buzz his company, Mophie, had generated at the 2006 event.
However, there's another flash-based player that Apple briefly mentioned at Macworld Expo that stands to become more strategically important to the computer maker down the road than the iPod shuffle.
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The earnings news comes on the heels of last week's Macworld Expo in San Francisco, where Chief Executive Steve Jobs unveiled a raft of software offerings and two notebooks.
And each of the new models will ship with Apple's iLife software suite, which Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs announced earlier this month at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco.
In a keynote address that lasted more than two hours at the Macworld Expo, which started here today, Jobs also announced, of all things, a new Apple-made Web browser software called Safari.
When blogger Violet Blue--who has pictures of herself posing with her Apple laptop on her Web site--approached Jobs on the floor of the MacWorld Expo to ask for a photo, lightly touching his arm, Jobs rebuffed her.
At Macworld Expo, Steve Jobs showed the crowd the ten millionth iPod that he kept for himself (like he really needs the money from eBay), but it is oft-repeated that more than 600 million cell phones are sold every year.
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Loose-lips Friday continues with word from that pesky ThinkSecret source (whom we're sure Steve Jobs would love to tar and feather) that Apple will be rolling out a significant upgrade to its current video-download service when and if it announces a new Mac mini at January's Macworld Expo.
Paul Kent, general manager of the Macworld Conference and Expo, read a statement promising that Macworld would live on in Jobs'--and Apple's--absence.
Steve Jobs will give his annual Macworld Conference and Expo keynote speech Tuesday.
"The Macworld Conference and Expo has thrived for 25 years due to the strong support of tens of thousands of Mac fans worldwide who use Macworld as a way to find great products, partake in professional development training and cultivate their personal and professional networks, " Kent said.
Macworld is also on track to host at least 25, 000 attendees at its expo, which is scheduled for late January.
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