You have to remember that CES is mostly vaporware. After years of headline-grabbing announcements by the major players and disappointing follow-up, the credibility of these product announcements has become a standing joke. Apogee Digital, for example, announced a high-end microphone for the iPad at the last CES and, one year later, there’s still a “Coming Soon” announcement on its Website. There are literally hundreds of other examples like this.

This year’s CES will not be much different. Even though journalists know that it’s mostly hype, they still need to duly publish these attention-grabbing headlines to sell their magazines, blogs, or newspapers.

They had better buck up, or they risk being backed into a corner. Don’t quite understand why, tbh – some of their products out in the Japanese domestic market have been brilliant.