John Gruber declares NVIDIA the new king of keynotes. Writing about Jensen Huang’s keynote at CES 2025, John says:
There’s magic in a live audience. It just matters. Taylor Swift’s record-setting stadium-filling Eras tour was a worldwide sensation because it was a shared experience between enthusiastic fans. She’d still be insanely popular if she hadn’t done that tour, but she’s more popular because she did.
This is the kind of thing that Apple used to do so well, with Steve Job’s 2007 iPhone announcement being the pinnacle of the form. I don’t think that Nvidia is yet at the same level as Apple was, but it’s good to see live, in-person keynote events back in force.