Rob Enderle
Rob Enderle
Rob Enderleis an American technology analyst...
depth
There really isn't much depth to this partnership.
desktop greater ibm losing player risk share
There isn't a player on the desktop that's at greater risk of losing share to IBM here than Microsoft,
biggest company
It is the biggest cloak-and-dagger company we've ever seen,
deals huge kids largely market quickly spread wireless
It's a huge market and largely untapped right now. Kids want phones, but nothing really deals with their parents' concerns. This will quickly spread to all of the wireless services.
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.
great lucrative machines money people regular replace spend
It's a lucrative market, and a great audience. These are people who spend money and replace their machines on a regular basis.
hoped looks point year
It looks like a comprehensive package, but they've been working at this for some time, ... Most of us hoped they would be at this point a year ago.
difficulty dominant high ibm looks similar stand switch tendency waiting
This looks a lot like 15 years ago, when IBM was dominant and similar surveys showed a high tendency to switch from IBM to another vendor. The difficulty is that we're still waiting for the right kind of vendor to stand up and come forward.
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,