> For instance, CES 2010 showed lots of tablets before Apple announced the iPad. It took a year for many of those products to get to market, and I believe part of that was due to the limited availability of the screens.
There were a lot of products speculating what the iPad was going to be, but were no where near ready for mass production. Just because Apple (or any other company with tight lips) doesn't show you what they're working on until they ship doesn't mean they aren't ahead of the competition.
Apple doesn't announce products at CES. If you haven't noticed they don't even participate in these events anymore. A lot of product gets announced at CES, but most of it doesn't make it to market (especially amongst the smaller tech companies who use CES as a way to raise funding). The iPad was announced and shipped one month later. A lot of CES tablets were announced and shipped 6-9 months later.
The $499 price point was absolutely devastating to every other tablet maker because up to then they were assuming Apple would price it at $800-1000. Which meant they could price it at 600-800 and have comfortable margins. Their announcement one month after CES sent everyone scrambling back to the drawing board.
Except for the Archos, I can't remember a single tablet from CES 2010.
More than that, Apple does not announce products unless they have to (because they need developers to start working on it right now so everything's ready for release for instance).
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> For instance, CES 2010 showed lots of tablets before Apple announced the iPad. It took a year for many of those products to get to market, and I believe part of that was due to the limited availability of the screens.
There were a lot of products speculating what the iPad was going to be, but were no where near ready for mass production. Just because Apple (or any other company with tight lips) doesn't show you what they're working on until they ship doesn't mean they aren't ahead of the competition.
Apple doesn't announce products at CES. If you haven't noticed they don't even participate in these events anymore. A lot of product gets announced at CES, but most of it doesn't make it to market (especially amongst the smaller tech companies who use CES as a way to raise funding). The iPad was announced and shipped one month later. A lot of CES tablets were announced and shipped 6-9 months later.
The $499 price point was absolutely devastating to every other tablet maker because up to then they were assuming Apple would price it at $800-1000. Which meant they could price it at 600-800 and have comfortable margins. Their announcement one month after CES sent everyone scrambling back to the drawing board.
Except for the Archos, I can't remember a single tablet from CES 2010.
> Apple doesn't announce products at CES.
More than that, Apple does not announce products unless they have to (because they need developers to start working on it right now so everything's ready for release for instance).