Rob Enderle Hard Quotations

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.

Considering how a phone gets treated, having a hard drive in them doesn't make much sense to me,

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.

When a market is this tightly fought, any price drop in a component results in an immediate drop in hardware price.

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.

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.

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.