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Amazon, Apple and Google Steal The Show at CES (blogs.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: The enemy of my enemy is my friend, and this week's CES is clearly showing how what was once the way companies did business, has changed, and at the same time, what's old is new again and companies who once fought with each other are finding new ways to be allies. For example, Apple stopped licensing in 1997. Now they're redefining licensing by making it easier for anyone to access their iTunes platform. That's called distribution. What's next? Letting anyone make an iPhone -- I think NOT. Taken on face so far, it's clear Apple, Google and Amazon are dominating CES. News about assistants being deployed by multiple brands, new features and uses of the AI backed functionality and most of all iTunes ending up on Samsung, Vizio, and other smart TV brands. That and pure word play on the famed "what goes on in Vegas, stays in Vegas" line tied to your privacy.
Looking more closely, neither Amazon, Apple nor Google has really introduced any new products themselves. No new iPhones or MacBooks. No new Homes, Hubs, Mini's or Pixelbooks and no new Echos were introduced. But all three are dominating the news and over time, your wallets directly and indirectly. In everyway possible, they have mastered the hardware channel at this year's CES and at the same time proved that "software really is eating the world." But what about all the news about them you say? Well, its all indeed smoke and mirrors, with the media jumping on the names of Apple, Amazon, and Google when in reality what we have is a roll-out of services. Yes, those same services Tim Cook talked about is what caused the ill-informed stock market types to think Apple was a bad stock to hold onto, who misunderstand Google's real motivations, and who have yet to really see Amazon for what they are.
Looking more closely, neither Amazon, Apple nor Google has really introduced any new products themselves. No new iPhones or MacBooks. No new Homes, Hubs, Mini's or Pixelbooks and no new Echos were introduced. But all three are dominating the news and over time, your wallets directly and indirectly. In everyway possible, they have mastered the hardware channel at this year's CES and at the same time proved that "software really is eating the world." But what about all the news about them you say? Well, its all indeed smoke and mirrors, with the media jumping on the names of Apple, Amazon, and Google when in reality what we have is a roll-out of services. Yes, those same services Tim Cook talked about is what caused the ill-informed stock market types to think Apple was a bad stock to hold onto, who misunderstand Google's real motivations, and who have yet to really see Amazon for what they are.
Yep. Very. CES is pointles these days. I can't remember the last time there was any real innovation that does society any real good. Plenty of bad and perhaps that's why Apple, Amazon and Google dominate the show.
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When the biggest news is that Apple has been forced to open up its services a bit to get new customs, rather than some interesting new tech, you know things have stagnated.
It's kind of a weird time to have a trade show though. Everyone gets all their new stuff out for xmas. This is the new project time with an eye on release later in the year. All the new phones are due around October...
Well, Nissan announced a new Leaf. It's a bit "meh" but it's something.
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Apple's attempt to get media on your TV was their AppleTV product that didn't do so well. While they would love to control all the hardware, they're more afraid of losing out on media to Amazon, NetFlix, Google, Spotify, and many others. If that happens, it's one less tie into the iPhone ecosystem, and Apple won't risk that.
Streaming is convenient, but not so much if you have to keep switching services to get everything you want, so all the big players want to be your one true provider. Limiting access is a strategy for failure.
CES still seems to still be where new TVs are launched, so if you're in the market for one, this is a good time to see if there is anything interesting coming, or if you should be looking to grab last year's model at a discount.
Amazon and Google dominated the show.
As usual apple was there only to steal things.
What goes on in Vegas stays in Facebook,Google,Amazon.
What goes on in Vegas stays with Facebook partners.
What goes on in Vegas you snap-chatted will be resurrected in 10 years.
What goes on in Vegas stays in your cell provider's location DB; which is for sale.
What goes on in Vegas stays in Facebook,Google,Amazon,Apple profiles.
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That's true. Those OLEDs do look nice, although they are mostly just an incremental upgrade from last year. In fact the reviewers seem to be saying you might as well save some cash and buy last year's model.
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I think this just shows how lazy and disconnected the tech press is more than it shows how Amazon, Apple, etc. are doing. Rather than doing research into the new technology or what the companies are offering, these media outlets just recycle the same junk that they always spit out to be gobbled up by a general audience that has as little interest in anything technical as the people covering it.
There's probably a YouTube channel with a few tens of thousands of subscribers that does a much better job covering these events than any of the people writing for the mainstream rags or some of these so-called technology websites. There's still good and interesting coverage out there, but you'll have to do a bit more digging.
Not even really true. Except for the apple TV thing, which I only heard in passing in a general article listing all the TV related announcements and isn't even really about apple or innovation, this is the first I've seen any reporting on any of these three from CES this year and all this article claims is the opposite of my personal experience so I am inclined to consider it a paid promotion to try and make up for their lack of impact.
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Yup. I have my eye on a particular TV, and I was hoping to see essentially the same thing with an extra HDMI port or two. I just don't get why they're so stingy with those, especially when they want the TV to be the hub of everything with smart menus and such, but then they push you towards using a switch (in your receiver or otherwise). I'm hardware must be just pennies, but I'm guessing the limiting factor is patent fees. Now if they just updated HDMI to let the TV see the downstream switch and control it to make it look like the ports were in the TV to the consumer, that would solve this problem. Since they've thrown everything else into the HDMI spec, I figure this will come sooner or later (half-joking).
Those TV's are going to have to get thicker again to support the 8th gen Core i7, 8GB of RAM and 1TB of HD space they're gonna need to run it :)
I think the new CEC spec supports switches being controlled by the TV, but don't quote me on that.
The lack of HDMI ports is frustrating. I think they use it to upsell higher end models by throwing in an extra port or two.
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Imagine a year where there weren't any Oscar-worthy movies. Would they cancel the Academy Awards? No. Because at the end of the day, CES (and the Academy Awards) are mostly just marketing events. There's a lot of money floating around the CES event and not having anything really new or note-worthy isn't going to disrupt business as usual. Marketers going to market, regardless.
This is one of the worst Slashvertisements I've ever seen. I've been following CES 2019 and I've not seen anyone give half a shit about virtual assistants, and I've not seen anyone even care that Amazon, Apple, and Google showed up.
If CEC spec supports that, then it's a matter of smart TVs getting smarter to detect it and treat ports on compliant switches just like native ports. That would be really cool and solve the port shortage problem. Now if only I worked for Roku or someone like that...
Same old shit, in a new wrapper. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
I'm not sure how they manage to get from "Looking more closely, neither Amazon, Apple nor Google has really introduced any new products themselves," all the way to "steal the show."
Or, to rephrase the entire story, "Burble burble burble PROMO burble burble CONSUME burble burble. fnord"
The only things I saw were shitty VAs and shitty laptops
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Same old shit, in a new wrapper. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
I'm not sure how they manage to get from "Looking more closely, neither Amazon, Apple nor Google has really introduced any new products themselves," all the way to "steal the show."
Or, to rephrase the entire story, "Burble burble burble PROMO burble burble CONSUME burble burble. fnord"
Errm, isn't getting all the press despite not even being at the show pretty close to the definition of "stealing the show"?
Of course news about a fake are Fake News.
If that is the only reason for the show, then that would be true.
I thought the show was to convince purchasing people that their stuff is going to be the Next Big Thing in the rapidly-approaching holiday shopping season. If that was really the reason, then whatever the media said wouldn't even count for anything.
If that is the only reason for the show, then that would be true.
Ooops, I forgot all about the booth babes, sorry.
I thought the show was to convince purchasing people that their stuff is going to be the Next Big Thing in the rapidly-approaching holiday shopping season. If that was really the reason, then whatever the media said wouldn't even count for anything.
You make it sound like the vast majority of the public makes their buying decision based on actually going to the show instead of getting the info from the media. We're not in the early 80s any more.
Of course news about a fake are Fake News.