Wednesday, June 23, 2004

Comdex Cancelled!
"Computer trade show Comdex, once the biggest event on the tech calendar, has been canceled this year, a victim of the growing interest in shows emphasizing consumer electronics and specialist IT gear."

Comdex has not been doing well for years. In fact, you can trace its slow downhill spiral to the introduction of the first Spring Comdex. And the first time the rights to Comdex were sold, someone should have sat down and figured out, "Hey, why would someone sell a golden cash cow...?"

Comdex was a beautiful thing. I know this because Alice made me walk back from the convention center to our hotel ("Oh c'mon... It's only a stone's throw!" Yeah, if you had a catapult.) and I got to see everything and everyone up close and exhaustedly personal. Things got stinky when the powers-that-were turned it into a business proposition rather than a celebration of computing. Hopefully it can get back on track but I don't think many will miss it in its current iteration if it doesn't.
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