“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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