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Macworld/iWorld organizer Paul Kent on what to expect at the 2012 show.
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the show is shaping up great I mean as
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you can see we have this whole new Decor
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we have all these new elements
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registration is up considerably we're
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expecting a whole lot of new people
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coming to the show for the first time
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we' built all these you know in addition
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to the product Discovery you know you
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can go to the exhibit floor and go
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shopping and look for new apps and that
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type of stuff and all the conferences
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that we have we have all these cultural
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things we have musical performances we
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have art galleries we have a film
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festival so there's all these kind of
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new things that are appealing to people
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uh who have never come to ma before and
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that's really we the way we built the
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show this year all right so how many
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people do you expect to come this year
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well you know numbers in advance been
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last year we had about 22,000 we think
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we're going to be up slightly over that
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okay cool and of course it's running uh
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different days this year uh Thursday
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through Saturday Saturday should be good
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for the public right absolutely Thursday
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through Saturday 10 to 5 10 to 5 10 to 4
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okay cool and any particular highlights
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that people should be looking out for
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there's lots of them I mean Jonathan
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Frakes from Star Trek is going to be um
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appearing Beck and field is a is a web
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series that he's involved with that'll
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be up in our Tech talks um Susan orene
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is the best selling author uh we have
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performances by the jam band Mo and the
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rock band Atomic Tom and what's really
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cool about that is I mean these are
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traditional bands but MO is actually
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going to sit down their instruments and
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perform a whole song only using an iPad
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oh cool you know so you're going to tap
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out drum rhythms and you the guitar
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player is going to strum out all on an
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iPad so I think it's just cool stuff
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like that it's just all the interesting
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things that people are doing with apple
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gear okay cool well I'm looking forward
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to it I always love the show and uh you
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know best of luck with it thanks a lot
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okay thanks bye
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