CES and Macworld: done, finally
Not that we’re out of the woods just quite yet, but there’s a certain sense of relief when everyone gets to go home, recover and tend to their wounds, and officially say we’ve made it over the CES / Macworld hump — by far the hardest two weeks of the year.
Of course, it wasn’t all grins of pride. Despite a stellar CES performance and an equally stellar Macworld run-up, we had some major hiccups on the site today. Post-mortem on that coming ASAP — don’t worry, it’ll be the detailed-as-I-can-give kind which I’ll try not to vet with our lawyers first. It’s still nice to know that even despite having major outages throughout the busiest two hours of the entire year, we could best our closest competition on the order of millions of pages. (Not that pages are really any metric to go by anymore, but you know.)
Thanks again to everyone who stuck by us during the insanity today, and for dealing with our overly-obsessive wall to wall coverage over the past couple of weeks in general. But more than anything, I again have to thank the team, who make and re-make Engadget every single day of the week, rain or shine, uptime or downtime, without fail. Everything good about Engadget I owe to them, as does every reader of the site.
P.S. -Just for further blog-record-keeping of this crap, keep an eye out for appearances on TWiT, CNN.com, Xbox Insider (on the 360 Dashboard), G4, and Irish Newstalk Radio. (Am I missing any?)
Ryan — congrats on some amazing coverage from the two shows. Engadget easily outperformed any “mainstream” news organization and you guys were delivering content nearly 24/7 … simply awesome.
Comment by Jason Unger — Wednesday, January 16, 2008 @ 8:37 am
Ryan,
I have a question for you since you’re all over these tradeshows. What’s the deal with people cheering at a Macworld keynote? Aren’t these people supposed to be press? Aren’t they supposed to be the ones with enough experience that they see through the reality distortion field and report the “real” perspective?
I’m a mac fan but before all that I’m a consumer and I have a hard time knowing that the people I’m relying on for “honest and unbiased product reporting” are hooting and hollering at the sheer mention of “movie rentals” or “firmware upgrade”. This isn’t a Married with Children taping.
(BTW. I apologize for being so cynical but I own a Wii and an AppleTV due to media hype. That’s $700 for two products I haven’t used in months)
Comment by Urkel — Wednesday, January 16, 2008 @ 11:05 am
Urkel, awesome question. One that, as I’m writing it in these here comments, I’m increasingly beginning to think should be a post in and of itself.
Comment by Ryan Block — Wednesday, January 16, 2008 @ 11:33 am
Jason, thanks man!
Comment by Ryan Block — Wednesday, January 16, 2008 @ 11:33 am
Urkel: I’m reminded of this post on Joysiq re: a Nintendo liveblog. Both companies have the same sort of rabid following which inspires the ‘press’ to throw their heads back, eyes rolled into the backs of their heads, like they were at some kind of faith healing. Vlad’s little editorial above got a lot of coverage in the blogosphere, mostly people saying something along the lines of “lighten up, if you like something, scream your head off.”
Comment by chrisgrant — Thursday, January 17, 2008 @ 7:19 am
You forgot the Engadget podcasts as well! Good stuff as always, even though we are long past any references to our beloved (RIP) Rio Karmas (was it you or Peter that was the Karma owner?). I still have mine, btw, battered and bruised, and no longer my mp3 of choice, but still working.
Comment by Vance — Thursday, January 17, 2008 @ 12:53 pm
It was me! Man I miss that thing.
Comment by Ryan Block — Thursday, January 17, 2008 @ 8:20 pm