CES vs. Apple
Apple shares on Tuesday shot up above $80 - a record high - after Steve Jobs said Apple sold 14 million iPods in the December quarter. Apple is holding its annual Macworld conference in San Francisco. Apple also sold 850 million songs through its popular iTunes service, giving Apple 83% of the market for legal music downloads, according to Jobs. Read story by Rex Crum on MarketWatch
At the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas last week, I sought to find out what the consumer electronic industry was doing to catch up with Apple.
At CES, John Starkweather, a Microsoft product manager, showed me the new Windows-enabled portable media devices offered by Microsoft partners LG Electronics, Toshiba and Tatung. They're designed to compete with Apple's line of mobile devices.
Watch interview with Starkweather
At CES, Google announced its Video Store to compete with Apple's iTunes. I spoke with Jennifer Feikin, director of Google Video.
After having been at CES last week, I walked away very much an Apple fan.
Can CES take a bite out of Apple?
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