08-05-2004, 03:00 AM
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CeBIT America 2005 Canceled
"Although the Cebit America Web site continues to enthusiastically suggest that visitors "Save the date!" for the 2005 edition of the IT trade show next June in New York, organizers Monday announced that the event has been canceled. 'Though regrettable this is the correct business decision," Joachim Schafer, president of show organizer Hannover Fairs USA Inc. said in a statement. 'Cebit America is a terrific event but it has not generated enough revenue to justify a third year.'"
As our report on CeBIT showed, though, it wasn't a "terrific event". In fact, the 2004 event was downright bad. I wanted to see it succeed, but it looks like they never really got the ball rolling. So, both Comdex and CeBIT are canceled, and TechXNY seems to not have a PC Expo this year. So much for any technology convention in North America that's not CES or E3. :cry:
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08-05-2004, 03:39 AM
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I'll miss reading the reports of it, but after this years report, can't say I'm suprised. I think this reflects american culture regarding technology: namely that only geeks and losers are into technology. While this is wrong (as we suave people from the USA at PPCT prove), its a stereotype we are burduned with.
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08-05-2004, 04:29 AM
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Originally Posted by dadarkmcse
I'll miss reading the reports of it, but after this years report, can't say I'm suprised. I think this reflects american culture regarding technology: namely that only geeks and losers are into technology. While this is wrong (as we suave people from the USA at PPCT prove), its a stereotype we are burduned with.
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I don't think the problem was necessarily whether or not people were "into" technology there, so much as there wasn't all that interesting of technology to SEE (on the whole).
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08-05-2004, 04:38 AM
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I'll miss reading the reports of it, but after this years report, can't say I'm suprised. I think this reflects american culture regarding technology: namely that only geeks and losers are into technology. While this is wrong (as we suave people from the USA at PPCT prove), its a stereotype we are burduned with.
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Well, I guess we have seen a very strange technological equilibrium occur in the past few years. I remember a time when faster / better / more innovative things came out every 6 months... now it seems like we've reached a point where we have all we need, and are just refining it.
I do still believe that those in North America are viewed as not into technology culturally compared to germany & britain.
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08-05-2004, 04:42 AM
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I do still believe that those in North America are viewed as not into technology culturally compared to germany & britain.
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I don't know about that. COMDEX used to be the biggest international technology conference, by far. PC Expo, in the mid-90s, used to eat up the entire show floor of Javits, and took days to tour. If anything, we've gotten more, not less technological since then.
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08-05-2004, 04:51 AM
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Part of the problem is that a lot of businesses have decided that the real money isn't in making cool stuff for people to use, but in making products that they can convince other companies that they need. So it seems like most business is B2B, with only the "suckers" getting the "lousy job" selling to the consumer.  Then the innovation presented turns all into "this is how you can keep track of the birthdays of the reps at all your clients and automatically send them something off their Amazon wish list with a note that says 'Happy Birthday, from your pals at BigCorp'" or "we'll sell you a program that will figure out that based on the purchase of a box of Nilla Wafers, that an end-consumer will then also have a 40% chance of buying vanilla pudding in the same trip." Plus a lot of security stuff.
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08-05-2004, 07:16 AM
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"we'll sell you a program that will figure out that based on the purchase of a box of Nilla Wafers, that an end-consumer will then also have a 40% chance of buying vanilla pudding in the same trip."
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lol :lol:
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08-05-2004, 07:23 AM
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Very simple... in the early 90's, Comdex and other shows were the best way to see what was new and for companies to market new products, etc. Now, with the internet, you can communicate the same message for much less. The value for trade shows in the technology area has gone down. Not only that, but Comdex used to be the only major show and now there are literally thousands of more regional and vertically focused trade events.
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08-05-2004, 01:32 PM
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I do still believe that those in North America are viewed as not into technology culturally compared to germany & britain.
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:huh: Umm, Dadarkmcse, as a Brit, I believe that it is the US that is far more into technology as a culture compared to the UK. 
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08-05-2004, 01:32 PM
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I think this reflects american culture regarding technology: namely that only geeks and losers are into technology.
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I do still believe that those in North America are viewed as not into technology culturally compared to germany & britain.
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Not at all. With the sole exception of mobile phones (seen grafted to most people's hand these days) the same stereotypes exist in the UK as in the US. It might be different in Germany or Scandinavia - but that might just be a stereotype.
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