Apple, MacForce, World Trade Center, and the Apple Snow Leopard Server Tour

Posted • March 4, 2010 • 1 Comment

Apple, MacForce, and the World Trade Center, How do they Rank? So Where’s the Coffee?

As the representative from LIMUG, I attended the Snow Leopard Server seminar yesterday at the World Trade Center in Portland Oregon.

After attending the Snow Leopard Server tour yesterday I decided I would go ahead and grade their presentation.

The World Trade Center is a very nice venue. Of course I had to park at the wrong end making my walk is far as possible. The event was held in a real nice auditorium with great lighting and seating. Checking in could have been any easier.

MacForce had a single table with the sign up to win a free iPod. They were totally unobtrusive and basically put on a nice event.

Presenters from Apple were very knowledgeable. The format of giving us the information and then presenting a demo of what they presented was interesting. After while this format seemed to create a sense of confusion or just dizziness.
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During the break we were presented with a real nice selection of cookies, extremely large though they were. A selection of canned sugar in the form of soda pops or fake sugar in the same form. There was also ice water available in glass glasses. But nowhere to be found was coffee. You heard me right there was no coffee. We have a room full of computer geeks, it’s after three clock in the afternoon, and there’s no coffee to be found anywhere on site during the break.

Apparently MacForce and Apple decided that the only caffeine to be consumed during the break was going to be in carbonated form. Needless to say this caffeine addict would’ve really appreciated a nice hot cup of coffee during the break.

So here are my grades:

• Venue – “A” “B-”
• Apple Presentation – “B”
• MacForce Presence – “B”
• Break – “D-”
• Choice of Beverages – “F”
• Over All Grade – “C-”

Maybe next time they will have COFFEE!

For details on the information presented at the tour visit
“Apple Snow Leopard, Apple iPhone, and the World Trade Center“.

The number one rule of marketing is “Know Your Audience”!

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Gary Pool SEO

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