Rob Enderle Quotes (114 Quotes)

Whenever you confuse the consumer, they defer purchases.

They have a lot of respect in the industry for their research history, but there is a perception that they are staid,

Gateway has been meeting its commitments, ... It makes a promise, and it fulfills that promise. That's something Gateway hasn't done for years.

It looks like a comprehensive package, but they've been working at this for some time, ... Most of us hoped they would be at this point a year ago.

He will be helping guide Google along what undoubtedly will be a very difficult path.

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.

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.

Motorola will do whatever it takes to maintain its dominant position and if that means doing stuff on Linux it means doing stuff Linux. If that means doing stuff on Microsoft then they'll do stuff on Microsoft, ... They are not religious. They'll do what their customers want them to do because the don't want to give up this very lucrative market to anyone else.

After one year, the company doesn't look the way it did under Carly.

Microsoft grew to a point where they thought they were big enough they could weather any storm, ... I think they've been reminded recently that nobody's really big enough.

A major brand entering the space is always going to be problematic for anyone who is already there. People are likely to be there shopping and they could easily be pulled into a digital music experience.

There's always been a belief that Microsoft would respond punitively if you did something they didn't like. You were afraid of Microsoft's reaction, ... That belief has been pretty much destroyed. Vendors, clients and customers feel pretty much free do whatever they have to do in their Microsoft relationship.

Mobile broadband, which recently entered the U.S. market, is rapidly becoming the 'must have' technology in an industry already accelerating its shift away from desktop computers. This high-speed, broad-reach wireless technology opens up a serious set of future possibilities for both business and entertainment markets, creating one of the most powerful growth opportunities we have ever seen.

He has to expand market share. It's one thing to get the company into fighting weight it's another thing to get into the fight.

It's the product launch you look at to see if they got the merger right. This shows they're back up and running and open for business, which is important because in a merger, people forget the company has products and focus on the merger only. So far they haven't broken anything.

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.

This industry tends to be a good 10 years ahead of general business in terms of critical network-capacity needs and capability, ... will probably be passed relatively quickly, given that this need crisscrosses their industry.

This is Microsoft moving toward offering all of its software as a service, ... Microsoft will ease into it because they don't want to give up the product revenue before the services revenue can ramp up.

I can't think of any company in the consumer space that will get hurt as a result of the delay.

Having a portable, personal Web device opens the door to a number possibilities, such as sharing and updating all kinds of information, in real-time,

It's a lucrative market, and a great audience. These are people who spend money and replace their machines on a regular basis.

They are the only company that can come in on top of technology like cable boxes and routers that is already inside homes. Everyone else has to build from scratch.

With these devices content is king, ... The more content you can get on them, the more valuable they are.

It's too early to call it, ... The software industry is going to be seeing a lot of changes for some time -- that's the only guarantee at this point.

This is a major slip with material consequences. Missing the fourth quarter will have a significant impact on consumer sales.

Cutting RD budgets can be tempting for managers during tough times. It's seen as a soft cost, like marketing.

How do handset manufacturers get around screen size and entry method Voice may be the way we are going to end up, but voice requires a lot of processing power,

Whenever the largest online retailer makes a decision, it's going to be a big deal. They're the bellwether for their segment. What they do, others will likely do or consider doing.

AOL was a company waiting to die, Suddenly, they had a strategy that wasn't just about putting them out of business. They washed the car and it got a lot more attractive.

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.

For the most part, the appeal of these devices is very generational. In many cases, as you move up in age, it becomes increasingly a male audience.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The physics chip adds a level of reality in games we just haven't been able to get.

Trading floors are already going to flat-panel displays, for example. And health care services like flat panels because CRT emissions can interfere with medical instruments.

She thought she could dictate loyalty. She didn't have to build it.

Microsoft has always been light on the collaborative side, ... It's about time they show what Groove is going to turn into at Microsoft.

It is one of the more interesting ideas that has come up of late. And one that I think has the potential to really transform the way we play with the Web.

I think it's the foundation of something really big. But there will be a problem in trying to find a way in describing this without all the technical jargon. I call it a personal media portal.

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.

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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In terms of the level of importance, this would be in this space the same thing as Apple announcing they were going to be using Intel processors,

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.

Microsoft has entered as a full-fledged competitor. The (Windows Live) search product looks to be more advanced by a generation, and we're going to have a leapfrog competition as the two firms try to out do each other.

Certainly the new iMac is a powerful offering, and Steve Jobs has pulled another rabbit out of his hat, ... But their biggest problem will continue to be their ability to get parts.

It's going to take a few versions until this can be a world-killing product, but over time, if it's done right, it could certainly be as big as the PC ever was.

If you wanted to buy a machine that would still be a viable box in five years, this has that argument.