Rob Enderle
Rob Enderle
Rob Enderleis an American technology analyst...
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There are a lot of tech companies in the Bay Area that are setting the pace. Apple is on a major upswing and Hewlett-Packard is doing well in printers and visual technologies, and giving Dell a run for its money in personal computers.
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We already know when consumers don't buy in the fourth quarter, they don't come back in the first quarter. This has created a market opportunity that is unprecedented for Apple if they can execute.
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This Unix component is working against them. It's basically Unix with an Apple front end, but from the administrators' point of view, all they see is Unix.
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It's very critical to Apple that they get this .NET blessing, otherwise they're going to get forced out of the corporate network.
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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.
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This gives Apple the biggest competitive advantage they've had in history from Microsoft.
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No vendor other than Apple has really stepped up to the combination of design, marketing and user experience that is required by this segment.
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In terms of the level of importance, this would be ù in this space ù the same thing as Apple announcing they were going to be using Intel processors,
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The expectation on the iPod is that HP's version will probably outsell Apple's version relatively quickly.
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These devices are quite costly, and they are complex, so they tend to be prone to failure. So far, nobody has figured how to make them at a low enough cost so that the average person can afford one. They are showing up in mil-spec implementations and particularly in larger types of uses. It's in the small-system area that they seem to be having the most problems.
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The software industry as a whole is eager to put a dent in piracy, so Microsoft as a leading vendor can say it has stepped up to do its part in the fight.
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Pretty much across the board people are saying that Microsoft is dysfunctional. They are not cooperating across business groups, ... The end result of this reorganization is to fix that ? to get it so people who should be cooperating are cooperating, so they can start focusing on competitors instead of competing against themselves.
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Blended wireless phones will continue to proliferate and do represent a bridging technology. Eventually we will be making our calls consistently over the Internet, and the phone will simply become another wireless Internet appliance.
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The suit is likely to hurt both firms' opportunities.