As if Apple's spotlight isn't large enough lately, it appears they stole some of CES's 15 minutes with the announcement of the iPhone. Forbes is reporting that Yoshi Yamada, CEO of Panasonic, left CES on Tuesday and traveled 600 miles to see Steve Jobs' iPhone-unveiling keynote (perhaps he knew he was going to get his money's worth?). Even though CES is filled to the brim with gadgets and gizmos, Apple's fanatically-anticipated iPhone may have upstaged most of them: as Yahoo's Christopher Null told Forbes, "[It] is unfortunate that people are trying to get the word out about their products, and they're one-upped by Steve Jobs."Maybe CES will have better luck in 2008; we hear the CEA and IDG finally stopped playing phone tag and agreed on separate weeks for their respective festivals.
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1-12-2007 @ 10:12AM
Michael Reilly said...
An engadget podcaster the other day described CES during Jobs' keynote as like being at a solar eclipse; everyone paused, watched and waited.
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1-12-2007 @ 10:15AM
Cameron Campbell said...
MB the folks running CES should have thought of that before changing the dates for their show?
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1-12-2007 @ 11:16AM
Online Store said...
That's how Japanese companies got to where they are today. No shame in observing others and learning...
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1-12-2007 @ 2:22PM
Thomas said...
I notice that their logo wasn't big enough to squeeze in: "rehashed old" after Panasonic.
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