“Despite what you may have read in the Wall Street Journal Thursday, Apple isn’t slated to attend the Consumer Electronics Show in 2010, nor will CEO Steve Jobs have a speaking role in a CES keynote,” Peter Cohen reports for Macworld. “That’s according to the company that puts on the trade show, responding to a Wall Street Journal blog post that’s created a whirlwind of speculation.”
Cohen reports, “Writing in the Wall Street Journal’s Digits blog, Ben Charny recounted a meeting between Gary Shapiro, president and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)—the trade association which runs CES—and journalists which happened in the Bay Area earlier this week. ‘Apple plans to attend the show’s 2010 version, marking the first time in memory the Cupertino, Calif., consumer-electronics giant will be there,’ wrote Charny.”
Choen reports, “Charny, whose record of accuracy on Apple news is, well, spotty at best, offered no clear attribution for the news that Apple planned to attend CES 2010—something that’s been speculated upon for months, ever since Apple said it was dropping out of Macworld Expo… For what it’s worth, Charny’s blog post has since been updated, and the offending comment about Apple attending the show has been removed, along with a correction. But the damage—at least to the Wall Street Journal’s credibility—seems to have been done.”
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