Apple could easily put up a small trade show table at CES with brochures about its products, and a few bowls of free key chains and CD openers with the Apple logo on them. It’d be a great way for Apple to reach out to its customers, and a great way for customers to get excited about Apple. That’s PR 101, folks. Honestly, sometimes I wonder if Apple still thinks it’s operating out of a garage!
@frigg: CES is a trade show, not a consumer event. While a large part of exhibiting there is to grab the press' attention, it's primarily a place for companies to sell their wares to retailers, which the company seems to have no trouble doing, at least in the case of iPods, without the expense of exhibiting, which all told is pretty costly.
Apple does a better job introducing new products on its own, and one of the reasons it's dumped MacWorld as a venue for that is likely the timing--it's more or less concurrent with CES, and its announcements can get lost in the clutter.
Otherwise, early January is a GREAT time to introduce new products to consumers, as they're already in a post-holiday spending mood (which is why we all get so many direct-mail pitches in January) and there's little in the way of Earth-shattering news to detract from the buzz of some new gizmos.
@jimmyg&vroomtrap: Yeeeeeup. I was just funnin, imagining a crappy tradeshow table with product brochures, logo keychains and CD openers... what could be less Apple than that?! :P
Just check the CES website, Apple is not on the exhibitors list.
I think I'm starting to dislike Apple just based on the amount of news coverage they get.
In other news, Steve Ballmer (MS) and Paul Otellini (Intel) will be keynote speakers.
It's summer and it's time for me to bust-out my flip-flops.
If Apple goes to CES, please TV-B-Gone them from here to the end of time. And if they've locked it down, bust up their shit with a sledgehammer. Apple needs to learn to stop doing evil.
Have at them. I want to see buchanan hulk out and go berserk on their booth.
I'd say this $100 purchase is a great investment. Buy it, practice with it and, in no time, you'll be able to save thousands of dollars by simply levitating your purchases past the checkstands unnoticed.
@nospamsam: I think the man opened himself up to ridicule by dressing in that manner. I have no big dog shirts, partial tribal tats, or red hair patches. But then I wouldn't think to pose as a dirtbag.
A big Dog t-shirt? They still make those? Or did this guy pull it out of his junior high wardrobe?
And how do we know Ballmer has six secret super powers, if they are a secret?
Also, I think the guy with the porn mustache in the back ground could probably whup this guy, as anyone with the nads to have a mustache like that has to have some ass kicking abilities, or has a member that could scare a person into submission.
@OMG! Ponies!: When the pirates see Ballmer, they take him for the god of the seas himself who has ascended from the deeps to seek vengence for their exploitation of his kingdom, jump over board and devote their lifes to flower breeding in the backmost corners of the Somali inland.
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Apple does a better job introducing new products on its own, and one of the reasons it's dumped MacWorld as a venue for that is likely the timing--it's more or less concurrent with CES, and its announcements can get lost in the clutter.
Otherwise, early January is a GREAT time to introduce new products to consumers, as they're already in a post-holiday spending mood (which is why we all get so many direct-mail pitches in January) and there's little in the way of Earth-shattering news to detract from the buzz of some new gizmos.
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I think I'm starting to dislike Apple just based on the amount of news coverage they get.
In other news, Steve Ballmer (MS) and Paul Otellini (Intel) will be keynote speakers.
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It's summer and it's time for me to bust-out my flip-flops.
If Apple goes to CES, please TV-B-Gone them from here to the end of time. And if they've locked it down, bust up their shit with a sledgehammer. Apple needs to learn to stop doing evil.
Have at them. I want to see buchanan hulk out and go berserk on their booth.
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That being said, "These are the toys you are looking for. Buy some more."
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What I find even more humorous is the line of "tough guys" that pipe up to ridicule this guy anonymously.
Nothing says "Tough Guy" more than insulting someone without any chance of reprisal.
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And how do we know Ballmer has six secret super powers, if they are a secret?
Also, I think the guy with the porn mustache in the back ground could probably whup this guy, as anyone with the nads to have a mustache like that has to have some ass kicking abilities, or has a member that could scare a person into submission.
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Can Ballmer swim and hang onto his ill-gotten money at the same time?
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Who would win in a fight, Steve Ballmer or Chuck Norris?
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