Rob Enderle
Rob Enderle
Rob Enderleis an American technology analyst...
apple experience marketing required stepped user
No vendor other than Apple has really stepped up to the combination of design, marketing and user experience that is required by this segment.
anyone behind disney doubt easily forget king maker power
I see him more as a king maker at Disney than a king. However, he could easily become the power behind the throne, and I doubt he will let anyone forget that.
britney forever spears start
How'd you like to live forever with a Britney Spears start page?
aggressive base computing extra grid load number paying sun
I think you can say that Sun is being aggressive in actually getting Grid computing out there as part of the base load on a number of systems. You are not paying extra for it; you get it as part of the package.
drive gets hard phone
Considering how a phone gets treated, having a hard drive in them doesn't make much sense to me,
bad doubt eclipse goes lawsuits litigation save software tend
Because the litigation has become so much of what they are, the lawsuits tend to eclipse anything else they try to do. And if it goes bad for them with IBM, I doubt anything they do with software will be able to save them.
came companies expenses hit liked performance services sets
Companies have always liked the subscription approach. It sets expenses for the software. What they haven't liked is the performance hit that came with subscription services in the past.
miss
They didn't miss this time, and there was a lot of concern.
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.
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.
adverse broad buy chose components consumers cross damage depend few impact issue later market pc platform purchase quarter section slip until wait windows
Few things could have done more damage to the 2006 PC market then the slip of Windows Vista. This will have an adverse impact on a broad cross section of components and platform PC suppliers who depend on the 4th quarter to make their numbers. The big issue is consumers typically do not wait to buy, and will chose to buy something else and now wait until later in 2007 to purchase their computers.
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,
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He's really getting the financials and operations in good order and making strong management and organizational decisions, as opposed to going after every opportunity on the planet. Those decisions are very hard to make, because a lot of folks only want to acquire companies, and the end result is a complex mess that can't be managed.
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.