iPod / iPhone CES pavilion sells out in record time, quadruples to include Mac products — goodbye, Macworld?
Damn, it hasn’t even been a month since Apple’s final Macworld Expo appearance, and it already looks like the show’s in trouble — the CEA just announced that its iPod / iPhone-centric iLounge Pavilion sold out just a week after being announced, and that it’s quadrupling in size to include Mac-specific products and retailers as well. That means there’s going to be 18,000 square feet of CES solely dedicated to the Apple ecosystem, and without the draw of an Apple product announcement to bring the press to Macworld, it’s going to be pretty tough for it to attract the top-tier companies and product launches it needs to survive in the face of the CES juggernaut. We’ll see how this plays out — we’ve got a feeling next year’s Macworld is going to be dramatically different.
P.S.- Regardless of what happens, we still think it’s really unlikely that Apple itself comes to CES — why would it ever want to share the spotlight?
