“Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer will be there. So will Intel chief Paul Otellini, Ford chief Alan Mulally, Nokia chief Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo and Qualcomm chief Paul E. Jacobs,” Brian Caulfield reports for Forbes.
MacDailyNews Take: Yawnfest as usual.
Caulfield reports, “And those are just the headliners. More than 2,500 exhibitors will be hawking 20,000 new products this week at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The biggest no show? Apple.”
“No one at Apple has said anything, officially, about a new product to the press [but if a tablet]… is coming, count on Jobs to deliver the news himself, quite possibly by the end of the month. Coming at the end of a decade that saw Apple’s shares rise more than 700%–thanks to the iPod and the iPhone–the new product promises to be the biggest technology feat, or flop, of the year,” Caulfield writes. “How do you compete with that?”
MacDailyNews Take: Poorly, laughably, and pitifully:
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Steve Jobs vs. all of the other tech CEOs put together is like Usain Bolt vs. shoe box full of snails.
How can Balmer look back at video clips like the one above and at all his other dumbfounding captured moments and still have the face to make more?
I never get tired of watching that clip. Let’s hope the MS board doesn’t fire Ballmer for at least 3-5 more years.
Easy! Ignorance & arrogance.
“Easy! Ignorance & arrogance.”
Same thing can be said about Apple and Steve Jobs. So why does it work for Apple and not the rest of the industry?….. The puck.
And how are those $99 QPhones selling?
Does anyone have any data? Because I’m really interested.
It doesn’t surprise me MAC won’t be at CES. They’re afraid. I guess the only thing MAC understands is “If you can’t run with the big dogs, stay on the porch.”
The curious thing is CES is right in MAC’s wheelhouse for their typical vaporware home runs that you MAC lemmings drool over but no one seems to notice MAC never delivers on these promises. When will you sheep ever learn?
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@ iphone User:
Steve Jobs – ignorance???
You should have your iPhone confiscated and be forever doomed to using a Razor, idiot.
@iphone
Easy! Ignorance & arrogance.”
Same thing can be said about Apple and Steve Jobs. So why does it work for Apple and not the rest of the industry?….. The puck.
because he and Apple can back it up.
“it ain’t braggin’ if you can back it up.” – Muhammed Ali
In the words of Inigo Montoya, “I do not think it means, what you think it means.”
I have a feeling our iPhone means something else when he says ignorance (perhaps he wanted to say how Balmer, as well as Jobs, ignore everyone else, and are thus ignorant…).
It’s real ignorance when the dumb make up their own meanings to words they don’t know…
Apple has upstaged CES several times in the past. Apple is the only company that generates the kind of interest and buzz based on rumor and conjecture alone.
Microsoft pre-announces products with a dizzying array of features, only to slash and burn features along the way, to a typically LATE delivery. Microsoft promises the world, but delivers an asteroid.
On the other hand, Apple under-promises and over-delivers.
After all, what Apple releases, other tech companies will scramble to copy. So, Apple’s product announcements… REAL, SHIPPING products… are really previews of what the rest of the tech industries will struggle to deliver in 2 or 3 years.
It’s like driving in Europe in a rental car… some car whips by and all you see are tail lights.
Zune Tang writes, “It doesn’t surprise me MAC won’t be at CES. They’re afraid. I guess the only thing MAC understands is “If you can’t run with the big dogs, stay on the porch.””
Yeah, I know ZT is a put-on. But the truth is, there’s not much Apple could show at CES that one can’t see at your local Apple Store. They won’t show coming products or prototypes. And apps that take advantage of the Mac ecosystem merit their own booths.
@igno rules the herds
That’s RAZR™, get it right.
@iphone User
“”Easy! Ignorance & arrogance.”
Same thing can be said about Apple and Steve Jobs. So why does it work for Apple and not the rest of the industry?”
The same thing can indeed be said but said in a different way when applied to Apple… Ignorance & arrogance becomes intelligence & confidence,,,
Steve Jobs vs. all of the other tech CEOs put together is like Usain Bolt vs. shoe box full of snails.
lol That is one of the best and funniest takes in recent memory. It’s so true..
@ breeze:
The reason Ballmer can look back on old video clips and think back on the dumbass trash he’s put out there in the past and still have the audacity to make more bullshit claims about WHATEVER he decides to spew on about is because he’s a con man, but he’s not a very good one. In fact, he’s the worst kind. He CONNED HIMSELF. His mind NEEDS to believe his own BS, otherwise he would self-destruct. Any rationial mind would. It’s like Doublethink from 1984. Plus, let’s not forget that this retard was a used car salesman. If that doesn’t say it all, what will?
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ZuneTang, the bit’s getting old. Time to shelve it.
This one is so simple:
It’s easier to be the loudest voice in the room and get all the attention when you are the only one on stage to a captive audience.
Apple doesn’t care about CES (Or Macworld anymore 🙁 )
You really think Jobs wants to schlep around with tools like Ballmer?
The same thing can indeed be said but said in a different way when applied to Apple… Ignorance & arrogance becomes intelligence & confidence,,,
I’d argue that Apple possibly starts from a set of completely different cultural positions.
One of senior management (I recall Jonathan Ive, but it could have been Phil Schiller) was quoted last year that profit and market share are not really where Apple starts its product development process, but rather observing a problem and then trying to develop the most elegant solution that exists for that problem.
That philosophy almost seems to be an extension of a quote attributed to R. Buckminster Fuller…
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
In other words, think of the problem, solve the problem and – if the solution isn’t aesthetically or ergonomically sound – don’t be frightened to throw it away and start again.
That’s a major difference to most companies: most of them appear to start by creating a wishlist and then initially executing those parts of the list that are cheapest to implement. Once you go down that road, you only bother to design a set of foundations for the pieces that you’ve chosen to implement. And then you’re trapped because creating a more expansive product requires major re-engineering.
Don’t believe me: look at Windows.
There is probably an element of arrogance in another part of Apple’s behaviour which is that – to a great extent – it doesn’t actually consider Microsoft, Nokia and others to be competition as much as it considers them to be examples of a prior evolutionary stage in a given marketplace.
Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer will be there, and Ford chief Alan Mulally (Ford is partnered with Microsoft), and Nokia chief Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo.
All the also-rans in one room. Very convenient.
Now everyone can skip all the boring bits at once.
At CES, these companies will win the “Participant” ribbon.
I’m not surprised that CRAPPLE won’t be attending CES 2010 because they have no new products in store. It’s more like showing off iPods, iPhones and how these two products are selling like hotcakes which everyone has heard over and over again and only MACTARDS will praise on. By comparing to the competition I see a lot more innovation is coming out and only a matter of time before CRAPPLE photocopiers start copying again. What will they copy next? “Microsoft Surface Computing”
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In retrospect, Ballmer did the best he could with this interview and gave Apple the benefit of the doubt. “Let’s see…” is really all he said. Now that we have seen how it all turned out we can gloat, but it’s pretty clear (to me at least) that he was hedging as much as he could without spooking his own shareholders.
The reason to exhibit at CES is to get your product in front of 110,000 people that might never know about your product.
Apple is on a different plane of existence.
On Wednesday, January 27, Apple will say “Look at Me” and the World will. OM. ♪♫♪♫
WHile one might not be impressed with Balmer I have a lot of respect for Alan Mulally.
Mulally was a top guy at Boeing and was in charge of the 777 development. That has turned out to be one hell of a plane.
Then he was the guy getting the 787 into development and may have taken it to first flight if he had not moved to Ford.
Ford gave Alan to opportunity to be THE CEO and he made the move. Was smart enough to figure out that cash in hand was going to be critical and he financed $20+ Billion. And Ford is the only one of the Big 3 that did not file bankruptcy.
Ford is also doing well in the market, MT Car of the Year, stock at its highest price in years.
Mulally isn’t Steve Jobs, but he ranks right up there in terms of being a first class CEO.