“Gary Shapiro is chief executive of the Consumer Electronics Association, the same group that puts on the Consumer Electronics Show each January for the last three decades,” Ben Charny blogs for The Wall Street Journal. “Apple plans to attend the show’s 2010 version, marking the first time in memory the Cupertino, Calif., consumer-electronics giant will be there.”
MacDailyNews Note: Last we looked, Apple’s attendance at CES 2010 is unofficial; still just a rumor.
Charny continues, “At a dinner with journalists this week in San Francisco, CEA’s Shapiro was asked whether he’s invited Jobs, who recently returned from medical leave, to keynote the show. Yes, Jobs has been asked, but nobody from Apple has gotten back to him, Shapiro said.”
“This isn’t the first time he’s contacted Jobs and not gotten a response, he said,” Charny reports. “The journalists at the table took note of a fellow traveler in their midst — Jobs provides very few interviews. ‘I’m glad to hear I’m not the only one in that position,’ Shapiro then said.”
Full article here.
Michelle Meyers reports for CNET, “Engadget’s Ryan Block, who says he was at the same dinner with Shapiro, is challenging the report’s accuracy. ‘At no point did Gary even remotely imply that Apple would be present at a future CES.’ That sentiment was echoed by Engadget founder Peter Rojas in a comment posted to the Journal story, addressing its author, Ben Charny. Shapiro ‘was very clear that Apple would not be exhibiting at CES 2010,’ wrote Rojas, who was also at the dinner with Shapiro. ‘I’m frankly a little shocked that anyone could have come out of the dinner with a post like this.’”
Meyers reports, “What we do know, however, is that with or without Apple, CES is planning to expand its Apple section from 4,000 square feet to 25,000 square feet. The venue will be called the iLounge Pavilion.”
Full article here.
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