I have never been to CES, and the only reason I’d ever imagine going is simply to see if it’s as big of a nightmare as people say it is. I have no desire to see anything launched there — zero. Because all the consumer tech companies I care about — save, perhaps now Samsung — aren’t even there. It’s a strawman of a show.

MG Siegler, Welcome to CES: A Trade Show, Not a Tastemaker  

7 January 2013 17 parislemon
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  1. svenburg reblogged this from parislemon and added:
    This is exactly how I feel about it. In fact, the very concept of trade shows has been dead for a long time.
  2. marksbirch reblogged this from stoweboyd and added:
    As strange as it may sound, there was once a time when you could actually learn a thing or two at tech tradeshows....
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    And thanks to the wonders of the Internet you’ll actually be more up to date on what’s happening at CES by not being...
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