It sounds idyllic: extend your Christmas holiday by popping over to Las Vegas for the first week in January. Yes, I’m talking about CES, that industry melting pot where anyone who is anyone in tech will be there. Well, if you exclude Apple. And Microsoft. And Google.
Each year, CES gets bigger, louder and, supposedly, better. But some are claiming this year’s event was a letdown, referring to the lack of a “kaboom!” industry announcement by someone huge.
This follows last year’s CES, which was mostly progression based upon existing work. That said, the sight of Michael Bay, Hollywood director of the Transformers franchise, stumbling off stage during the Samsung keynote, apparently due to an autocue failure, is something I will remember for a long time.
This year, however, even…
