Rob Enderle
Rob Enderle
Rob Enderleis an American technology analyst...
consumer damage largely market
The consumer market is largely a fourth-quarter market nowadays, and this will severely damage the market. There is no way around it.
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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.
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.
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IE has been frozen for a number of years largely at the request of large corporations that didn't want to upgrade and impact the stability of their systems. The result was that new browsers were able to spring up and begin taking market share.
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.
kept promises strategy
They kept making promises they couldn't keep, and their strategy was all over the map.
capability
The capability is there to make it look like an Aqua clone. This is going to be a very Apple-like launch.
hit hot
The Celeron's pretty hot, and makes for some hot little boxes, now that it's hit 500. It toasts pretty much any Pentium-II out there.
bit certain company loses quite reaches
It's been languishing quite a bit and is reminiscent of the old IBM. As a company reaches a certain size, it loses its edge.
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.
amount believe change honestly minds providing terms
That's a significant amount of money. I honestly believe that's going to change a lot of minds in terms of providing programming for this medium.
bring consumer entire job regard strengths strong
They bring different strengths to the table. Compaq has done a better job in regard to engineering an entire line. On the other hand, HP has been strong in consumer products.
bring consumer entire job regard strengths strong
They bring different strengths to the table, ... Compaq has done a better job in regard to engineering an entire line. On the other hand, HP has been strong in consumer products.
company gave near needs nowhere property strategy waiting work
They were a company waiting to die, ... They've done some work to make the property more attractive. The portal strategy is what gave them a future. It's nowhere near where it needs to be, but at least they've got one.