“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.
If he does say yes, expect PCs to get OS X.
What are you tossing Macin tosher?
…”expect PCs to get OS X.”
What could possibly have lead you to that conclusion??? Could you elaborate? I mean, it is CES; not COMDEX…
I said before here. This will be the next wave in the Apple dominated Media Home. They are going to revolutionize the way be get our media in January. Apple TV will move from Hobby to Media domination. And No it doesn’t new a PVR. Thing bigger. All of the cable companies are moving away from PVR’s to streaming your recordings.
The WSJ is making news, telling the story their way. Once CES kicks off, they’ll state Jobs and company pulled out at the last minute… …due to health reasons.
Dickweeds.
A keynote by Jobs would indicate that we’ve emerged from the Dark Ages – the years of Microsoft. Gates was for years the default keynote, but few really care what he thinks these days.
Giving Apple so prominent a place might also encourage Apple to do something serious with Apple TV. CES could be the right “coming out” party for a product that’s no longer a “hobby”, but rather the game changer it could be.
Yeah! and I have invited Megan Fox to my birth day party…..
@Predrag
COMDEX is dead; the last one was in 2003.
I just realized this… Why does MDN have links to BING advertising on it’s site? BING is a baby that needs to be knifed, not supported… especially by the one site that we all enjoy as explicitly anti-Microsoft. MDN: WTF?
@Troy Think she’ll show up? When and where I’ll be there just in case and bring ya a bottle Scotch just for kicks.
@BlackWolf
I don’t know, but if those guys at CES dare to dream about Steve Jobs going to they CES party, they I can dream with Megan going to mine… if she goes, I will invite everyone.. cheers!!!
OMG I’m so registering for CES now!
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