“Word that the device giant would be unveiling an iPhone on the Verizon Wireless network set tech fans and Twitter buzzing on Friday, even though the gadget world had plenty of other news to digest at CES,” Valentino-DeVries reports. “But an unseen Apple overshadowing participants at the annual confab isn’t exactly a new phenomenon… Last year, much of the talk at CES was about an upcoming announcement of an Apple tablet — a device that turned out to be the iPad. ‘I say it nearly every year, but it bears repeating: The most influential technology and gadget company wasn’t at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas,’ Barron’s columnist Mark Veverka wrote at the time.”
Valentino-DeVries reports, “And Apple this year had two cleverly timed announcements during CES. First was the news that it was opening its Mac App Store… [with] more than a million downloads in the first day… And now, we have the Verizon iPhone.”
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LOL Apple sure knows how to rain on the CES parade!
Check and mate, you copycats bitches.
Maybe CES needs to get out of the way.
If CES moves to a different date, so will Apple… just to snipe them again
After attending CES over the years. Its basically like watching a SciFi movie. Most of what you see wont or not occure that way.
Last year it was PC tablets and 3D TV. Both died before this year show. This year it clone tablets and trying to catch iPad.
Apple has real news. Even if rumors.
CES has been a microsoft-dominated event and other participants crouch in their shadow. Without saying a word, Apple outshines the whole sad and pointless affair.
Steve jobs, the quintessential tactician and master of surprise. Would we accept anything else?
Those copycats are going to pay dearly if Apple gets an early jump with the iPad 2 powered with a dual-core ARM processor and a Retina-grade display. As long as companies continue to copycat everything that Apple is doing, they’ll stay at least six months behind. They don’t seem to have any plans for themselves unless it’s a plan to copy whatever Apple is doing. Totally pathetic.
There was absolutely no reason that the industry had to copy Apple with tablets except for greed. They weren’t ready for it but they smelled quick money and a way to short Apple. They should have stuck to peddling their $200 Windows netbooks to cheapskate consumers.
The iLounge was much bigger/better at CES this year. It’s catching up to MacWorld. I bought a large bag full of goodies there, plus got lots of free shwag.
Also if you look at the Innovation Awards display, you’ll see lots of iOS device related products.
And the Intel booth was really worth checking out for the 2nd Generation Core chips we’ll see soon in our Macs.
Microsoft delivered a very lame keynote with Ballmer, not even announcing how many Windows ’07 Phones they’ve sold. Their booth was all about showing Xbox Kinect (with large rooms where you could play on display. They had several rows of phones, and not much else…specially not a single Zune…which hasn’t been updated in ages.
Obviously, the Zune has been end of life’d…I know, odd expression for a product that never had any life to begin with.
Slam dunk!
Everyone just cool it. Win8 phone is coming with awesome cut & paste.
I’ll say it here, since we haven’t heard it for some time:
Verizon. Getting the iPhone any day now since 20206.
As things look now, there aren’t that many days left to say this…
Live and learn Mr. Softy and Friends …… Great marketing moves, simply brilliant!
I’m in a sound-bite mood today…
CES: A CESpool of derivative drivel, ersatz errors, and flushable flotsam.
Apple has made announcements and had events in early January for many years, so I am not at all convinced that Apple’s announcement of the Mac App store had anything to do with when CES was being held.
If the iphone was going to finally be on Verizon I imagine Apple had to wait until the end of the AT&T exclusivity period, which may have been 12/31/10. So the January Verizon announcement doesn’t seem to have any relationship with CES either, other than not doing it while CES was in progress.
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