Rob Enderle
Rob Enderle
Rob Enderleis an American technology analyst...
affordable growth market navigation poised products rapid simple strong successful user
The GPS navigation market is poised for rapid growth in the US in 2006. The most successful GPS products will be those with affordable prices, strong performance, and a simple user interface.
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Few things could have done more damage to the 2006 PC market then the slip of Windows Vista. This will have an adverse impact on a broad cross section of components and platform PC suppliers who depend on the 4th quarter to make their numbers. The big issue is consumers typically do not wait to buy, and will chose to buy something else and now wait until later in 2007 to purchase their computers.
angry base career customer seen
Never in my career have I seen the customer base so angry at Microsoft,
apple corporate critical forced otherwise
It's very critical to Apple that they get this .NET blessing, otherwise they're going to get forced out of the corporate network.
aggressive
For it to be amazing, it would have to come in at an aggressive price.
call changes early guarantee industry seeing software time
It's too early to call it, ... The software industry is going to be seeing a lot of changes for some time -- that's the only guarantee at this point.
built few laptop next technology
It's the next big thing. In the next few years you won't see a laptop without this kind of technology built in.
broken company far focus forget launch merger open people product products running shows
It's the product launch you look at to see if they got the merger right. This shows they're back up and running and open for business, which is important because in a merger, people forget the company has products and focus on the merger only. So far they haven't broken anything.
centers contains data determined estate family geographic looking means places safest sites stable terms weather work
Data centers like this are what contains the family jewels. They're looking for low-cost real estate and stable sites in terms of weather and geographic activity. It means they've done some work and determined it's one of the least-expensive, safest places they can build.
drive gets hard phone
Considering how a phone gets treated, having a hard drive in them doesn't make much sense to me,
brand computers far major next race wave
The next big wave for computers, at least as far as we can tell, is going to be these modular designs, so it's a race to see which major brand does it first,
base cannon customer fodder forgive late turning
It's better late than never. But their customer base is not going to forgive them for RIM turning them into cannon fodder during the process.
bad good hype lower released
That may lower the attractiveness of the offering. Right now, we're getting all of the good news. When it's released is when we'll get the bad news. It's in the hype stage.
apple degree grow hardware market mean question sell share whether windows
The big unanswered question in the market is whether Apple hardware could successfully sell with Windows on it, and by successful, I mean be competitive to a degree that it could grow Apple's hardware share massively.