[JRios1968]

Even during the final few COMDEX's, there were more people feeding the slots outside than buying tickets.

What? No more COMDEX???

[Mr. Jeeves]

What? No more COMDEX???

It imploded. Financial problems, and not much interest from vendors any more.

[Boundless]

> What? No more COMDEX???

Yep. 2003 was the last one. 2004 got cancelled, and I
don't expect to see it return, nor even the return of
the computer mega-show. In the internet age, most of
the reason for having that tradeshow is gone. Having a
central physical location for vendor-client face time
and private-suite futures demos is nice, but can't
sustain the huge expense of exhibiting at the LVCC.

COMDEX was a contraction of COMputer Dealers Expo,
and the original point of that had vanished by the
mid'90s, by which time most of the small PC dealers
had been shoved aside by direct web sales, and
electronic chain stores.

COMDEX kept searching for a magnetic theme after that,
but never hit on anything with real resonance. The
combination of 9/11 and the dot.com bubble burst
triggered a rapid death spiral.

Someone yet buy the COMDEX name (CeBit?), but the days
of the uber geek PC show are likely over.