CES Show and manufactures’ problem

Source: The ‘CES curse?’

I do not have any issue with the CES show. It is a trade show. It is given that there will be c crap load of junks. It is like finding a gold at a closed gold mine that are open for a tourists. There are always few great stuff announced at the CES show. What is the point of the article? The point of the article to me was “Apple is not here, therefore the show lost its original purpose.” What a joke. The author wrote some examples of recent failure of the big announcements that were failed and wrapped that as a curse.

Let’s look into what really happened.

WebOS was absolutely stunning. It is still stunning despite of many improvements it needs.What happened to WebOS? It took way too long from the innovation to actual products. One thing I admire apple so much is they do not announce any of their products till close to the final version. It takes only few months from the announcements to actual release. Palm took forever to release Pre. When it came to the HP? An awful long time to release newer version of phone and tablet. When products announced, it was a huge reap forward. However, When actual products were released, it took awful long time that Apple already exceeded what new innovation HP came up with.

Netbook was a great idea in concept. In reality? What a joke. Qualities were poor and performance was even worse. Stripped down version of windows should been must yet all manufactures sold them with full of crap-wares that slow down even poor performance computers. However, is it a failure? No. Companies made so much profit out of these junks. Asus never had this much presence in the market until the success of the netbooks. I do not have exact sales figure in the states yet counting couple hundred million units since 2009 as a failure would be a poor judgement.

With such fast paced innovation and developments of new technology, it is harder for CES to be successful. Manufactures cannot wait to announce it’s newly developed products at CES before it becomes outdated nor announce new products too loose consumers interest near the time of releases. It is better move for the manufactures to hold its own press release conference rather than using CES as the place to be.

My recommendation to CES is hold an event every 6 months with smaller scale. This way CES can save money and many manufactures can utilize the show better to introduce right products at the right time.