Is Apple stealing the thunder from CES?. Well, yes. No surprise that it is since for the last several years at least Apple has cast giant shadow over CES (and last year CTIA as well) even though it doesn't attend the show. Jeremy Toeman thinks that's unfair. Come on Jeremy, you're a smart guy. The fact that Apple can take headlines with new Mac pros (which aren't servers) is more a testament to how little there is at CES this year in terms of the new and innovative than Apple being mean. Apple didn't need to take thunder from CES, there was nothing to take. Perhaps Apple's motivation to announce this stuff this week wasn't to get attention but more likely they wanted to get this news out this week to get it out of the way since it isn't super exciting. Of course, that means it's in order make more time for what they'll have to say next week... whatever it is that may be. Matt Richtel at the Times notices the Apple effect as well. Saul Hansel (who also skipped the show this year) notes the iPod economy effect on the CE industry with $1 billion of accessories this year forecast which would be a staggering 45% increase from 07 [Michael Gartenberg]
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