Norwegian broadcast technology vendor Appear was planning for IBC to be the stage on which it would unveil its new Neo line of server-based products – an evolution from the bespoke appliance offerings that have served its remote broadcast customer base for so many years. It was to be a big stage, festooned with the new corporate branding, to announce Neo to the world. But, alas, as we know, IBC did not go ahead, and so Appear did not get the chance to introduce some 30 new hires, swelling the count to some 170, to the rest of the industry. Appear’s CEO Thomas Jørgensen tells Faultline that the cancellation hurt, and when flipping the interview dynamic to ask us if…