Ihnatko: Apple and Steve jobs had good reason to dump Macworld

Now they're Apple, Inc., dammit. They make the damned iPod and the damned iPhone. They own more than 80 damned percent of the damned marketplace for digital damned downloads of music and video, and there seems to be damned-well nothing that anybody can do about it.

They no longer need to come to the press and the analysts, as they proved this year with all of their announcements on the Apple campus. If Apple just chooses a date, then everyone they want to see will come running to Cupertino.

The key part of that is "they just choose a date."

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