Not yet audited, but I think I counted accurately.
20,000: Visitors over three days. 250: Exhibitors. 3: Press room tantrums regarding free coffee shortage. (not me I hasten to add) 5: Airport lounges. 4: Most bodaciously excellent and rad MacLife people met, @strngwys, @raguilera and @Ohthatflo (protected tweets to keep the riff raff out) @yasodic !!
.Plus that other guy, sorry other guy I forgot your name. My bad.3: Free beers paid for by Microsoft. 1: Dives visited in the search for an ‘authentic’ San Francisco experience. 4: Sightings of ‘Mac publishing royalty’. 674: Brand new and exciting iPod/iPhone cases seen. 2: “It’s OK I’m a member of the media” moments seen. 32: Cups of coffee drunk each morning (estimate). 73: Number of times I said “I cannot believe how busy it is out there”. 458: Number of times I ended an interview with “So, do you have any iPad thoughts”? 1: Number of times that question was met with a stoney silence and an awkward PR interruption. (Brownie points for anyone who guesses) 2: Weird conversations regarding the sharing out of ‘our’ 99 virgins. 44: Number of virgins I will get as part of the deal. 227: Hands shaken. 2: People who immediately disinfected their hands with alcohol spray afterwards. 1: Throughly rude and selfish journalist in the media room demanding the most ridiculous hoops be jumped through. 1: Number of times I said “SHIT, are you kidding me”? (Hypermac buy Apple chargers and cut the cable off for their external battery pack). 1: Awkward silence after I said “SHIT, are you kidding me”? 345: Number of times someone said “Have you seen the Microsoft Office demo”? 344: Number of times they followed that with “Can you believe they only brought three screenshots”? 2: Times a PR told me something ‘super sekret’ in the middle of a packed stand surrounded by people. 3: Press kits on USB memory sticks received. 17: Minutes spent explaining that ‘freelance’ wasn’t a UK Mac magazine. 965: Number of times I had to explain I was from England and it was their accent that was weird not mine. 12: Number of people who said “Ooh, Halifax Nova Scotia”? 12: Number of disappointed and confused people who didn’t realise that there’s more than one Halifax. 0: Number of Apple representatives at Macworld Expo. 9000: Times Apple’s absence came up in conversation. 8999: Number of people who thought Apple absence had actually made much of a negative difference. 1: People thrown out of a Macworld party (not me). 200: Mac journalists exaggerating the story the next day. 73: Number of times I said “All your money is the same colour and size it’s stoopid”! 72: Number of times someone said “If you don’t like our money the terrorists win”. 1: Number of times I was very politely asked to leave the Apple campus and leave Mr Jobs car alone. (not really, i made that up) 2011 January 25 – 29: The date for next years’ Macworld Expo.
