Rob Enderle
Rob Enderle
Rob Enderleis an American technology analyst...
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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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The physics chip adds a level of reality in games we just haven't been able to get.
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Linux keeps Microsoft working hard in the government and education markets. ... Without Microsoft, they would be a lot more fragmented, ... Both of them require the other to be in place.
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Surveys that deal with Generation X and younger indicate these audiences love this stuff. They are not concerned at all with the privacy aspects of this stuff. As long as nobody uses that information against them, they don't have any problem, as long as it makes the experience better.
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You'll actually see the operating system that people have been asking for years and are finally going to get. It should be more stable and more reliable. ... The breaking-every-day part goes away with this product.
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Microsoft recognizes that its better off in the long run if it can focus on competing and innovating, ... But it's clear they have limits to how far they're willing to go to make that happen.
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It does demonstrate that non-competes are enforceable in some states. Transfers of critical employees between competitors come with a certain amount of risk.
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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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Given the fact that the desktop market space is predominately Windows, the results show an unusually high degree of dissatisfaction with the existing product and . . . a willingness to move to something else -- almost anything else -- to relieve their pain.
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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.
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They had a clear technology problem with laptops. They didn't have -- and IBM couldn't seem to make -- a good G5 mobile part, and that problem wasn't going away.
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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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Intellectual property litigation has been increasing steadily for the last several years. As a result, indemnification against this litigation not only has become a requirement for any technology purchase, it strongly pushes companies toward the buy side of the build-versus-buy decision. Microsoft's indemnification stands as one of the most comprehensive in the market, setting a high bar for competing platforms.