CES 2012

Consumer Electronics Show has always been something I wanted personally experience but as I follow it year after year it seems to be less and less interesing and more and more irrelevant. 

Technology seems to be evolving so frequently that having a show to display what's coming in the next 12 months seems unpractical. Most companies seems to change direction on new products or jump onto new ideas hence year after year what we hear at CES suppose to be setting a trend never really does. 2008 it was WiMax (upgrade to 3G) now almost dead. 2009 was 3D TV and wireless charging of your gadgets both hasn't captured any popularity. 2010 was Android tablets (iPad killer), iPad is still very much alive and I rarely see anyone using an Android tablet. 2011 was cellphones that you can turn into a laptop, we all have one of these, right?

On another hand what's killing CES is secrecy. Companies are really banking on suprise factor over their competitors. Apple leading the secrecy game seems to be catching on with others.

Irrelevance of an annual tech event is causing tech giants lose interest as well. This year Apple pulled out of CES and Microsoft announced next year it doesn't plan to have a major presence. I don't foresee a good future for CES, what do you think?