Rob Enderle
Rob Enderle
Rob Enderleis an American technology analyst...
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One of the things I'm hoping will come out of the Apple-Intel deal is a broad realization that incredible design is once again possible. Over the years the hardware OEMs have consistently used Intel and Microsoft as reasons they can't build really cool products. Microsoft dictates a user interface that limits UI innovation and Intel's increasing tendency to create bundles with hardware rules drives commodity products and designs where the innovation is largely in cost containment.
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When a market is this tightly fought, any price drop in a component results in an immediate drop in hardware price.
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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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The thing that makes me so nervous is that there are no hardware (manufacturers) here. I don't have anything to wrap my arms around and say, Ah, yes, this is something that's coming to market soon.
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This will enable the neighborhoods where it is installed to experience next-generation Web applications and programming at acceptable speeds.
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The phone is rapidly becoming a window to the world. In many ways it's becoming a replacement for the PC.
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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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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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Vista, because it was pretty much conceived during the toughest times for Microsoft with regards to malicious software, has the most protection in it compared to any of their platforms.
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Users need to have a contingency plan, regardless of the outcome of the merger. In the current environment, we're dealing with a risk-averse audience, and they don't want to put their jobs on the line for a company that may not be able to execute.
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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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Every company I speak with is talking about it. The concern level is very high.
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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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When we made the move from 16 to 32 bits, we were asking why we needed to make the move, ... But by mid-decade no one doubted it. We always go through this cycle.