Rob Enderle Quotations

When you've got multiple players going after a property, like anything, you get increased competition and people tend to bid higher.

Whenever Microsoft wins one in this space, it's the little guy winning.

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

Walker Digital doesn't look like much more than an idea house that comes up with ideas, then sues people who come up with similar ones. I think that kind of behavior is very similar to what happened on the high seas with pirates. It's being done under the auspices of a legitimate business practice, but in fact it's concealing behavior that is anything but fair business practice.

We're seeing cell phone growth from ages 8 and 9 on.

We're right now at the forefront of another major change.

Whenever you confuse the consumer, they defer purchases.

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.

LCS and Communicator are not worth a whole lot without the back end. They have to have the back end in place, or the other parts don't move.

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

Silicon Valley has some worldwide power players. It's a good place to be again.

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.

Monday is only the first step. From there, they'll have to fight every step of the way to prevent any lack of confidence from turning into a downward spiral while they fight this thing.

Motorola and Microsoft have been working increasingly together on a series of fronts. This is just one more step to show and allow Motorola to differentiate in an area that they dominate in the United States, which is communications for police and emergency healthcare.

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.

Online TV is going to make inroads into traditional forms. That can be a threat to the traditional providers of content or it can be an opportunity as well.

Now that the settlement is done, RIM can work on improving their relationship with their customers.

Never in my career have I seen the customer base so angry at Microsoft,

Right now it is Microsoft against the EU, and that is a huge imbalance.

I wouldn't go so far as to say WAP is dead. But the idea that an IT manager or Webmaster should have to learn WML to create a WAP site is hogwash, ... The idea that WML replaces HTML is silly.

I would argue this is the first major step towards a subscription operating system.

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.

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.

He was an instrumental part of making the Internet happen. When your on the Web and doing shopping, say a little prayer for Scott because he's part of what got you there.

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

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.

He is Mr. Sun. There wouldn't be a Sun if there wasn't Scott.

With Microsoft bleeding a certain number of people to companies like Google, putting Ozzie in that position sends a message to employees that they will be loved,

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.

Hopefully they'll learn this lesson -- that they absolutely cannot come out years in advance of a product and talk about a wish list of things that may or may not make it in.

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.

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.

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 something that's developed from scratch will have a much better shot at taking on the desktop, as opposed to something that's got the age behind it that Linux does.

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.

I see him more as a king maker at Disney than a king.

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.

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.

It expands the capacity of USB so that you can use broadband devices, which was the whole reason for 1394 to exist.

It doesn't appear to be particularly well-integrated. It's not elegant. Ideally, you'd have one single device instead of two devices bundled together.

It does demonstrate that non-competes are enforceable in some states. Transfers of critical employees between competitors come with a certain amount of risk.

The analogue on the car side is probably Porsche. Because its design is so important to users, it has a lot more impact on the market than its market share would indicate.

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.

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

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.

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.

Typically Microsoft issues the Office copy for the Mac after they offer it for the PC. It always lags by about a year.

The overseas market isn't saturated like the U.S..

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

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.

We were all expecting a little bit more.

This will enable the neighborhoods where it is installed to experience next-generation Web applications and programming at acceptable speeds.

The phone is rapidly becoming a window to the world. In many ways it's becoming a replacement for the PC.

There are a lot of tech companies in the Bay Area that are setting the pace. Apple is on a major upswing and Hewlett-Packard is doing well in printers and visual technologies, and giving Dell a run for its money in personal computers.

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.

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.

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.

We already know when consumers don't buy in the fourth quarter, they don't come back in the first quarter. This has created a market opportunity that is unprecedented for Apple if they can execute.

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.

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.

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.

Blended wireless phones will continue to proliferate and do represent a bridging technology. Eventually we will be making our calls consistently over the Internet, and the phone will simply become another wireless Internet appliance.

Every company I speak with is talking about it. The concern level is very high.

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

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.

The software industry as a whole is eager to put a dent in piracy, so Microsoft as a leading vendor can say it has stepped up to do its part in the fight.

The suit is likely to hurt both firms' opportunities.

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.

Pretty much across the board people are saying that Microsoft is dysfunctional. They are not cooperating across business groups, ... The end result of this reorganization is to fix that ? to get it so people who should be cooperating are cooperating, so they can start focusing on competitors instead of competing against themselves.

A few years back you couldn't point to a single Dell laptop and suggest that it was something anybody wanted to carry. We've seen these products become much more attractive over time.

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

Once you start raising unfairness questions, and you're the dominant player, then it would be very easy for somebody to use those arguments against you.

Once you have the link open, you should be able to get the (Internet Protocol) address on the other side. If the drives are password protected, it is far more difficult to get access.

No vendor other than Apple has really stepped up to the combination of design, marketing and user experience that is required by this segment.

Dell is the main driver in the price wars, so the price wars will keep going. Dell has already said they will continue it.

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.

companies don't have a vendor they can trust. Sun could be that vendor.

Companies didn't build a lot of inventory. Everyone based their build numbers on crappy consumer-confidence numbers. For certain high-demand products, companies are going to run out.

Depending on what it is you're moving and how much of it you can move, it could really be the next killer app. It could relate to everything - from how you move movies, how you move music and how you move your pictures.

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.

Appliances will be based on browsers, and it's the service you care about,

The business market wants low-maintenance devices. Appliances can get close to this profile,

Audrey was one of the best implementations of what turned out to be a really bad idea, ... It could be the poster child for this.

This is going to be a tough second half of the year for Apple. No matter where you look, it's stormy clouds.

This is an initiative to create a high level of integration and is almost a complete reorganization of the Microsoft architecture, ... But I haven't seen anything new they've done that has gotten me excited.

This is a potentially market-changing event. My sense is that this is going to increase Apple's market share dramatically.

This is the emergence of the new Gateway. It's critical for them that the market see them as a new and vibrant company, as opposed to the perception that followed them at the beginning of the year, that this is a company that's going out of business.

This gives Apple the biggest competitive advantage they've had in history from Microsoft.

This company has a lot of leading-edge chip designers behind them, as well as the inventor of Linux. So they've got the skills set to develop something that is based around the current paradigm that takes advantage of the technologies that exist today, as opposed to technologies that have either become obsolete -- or certainly old -- over the last five years.

This clearly will be among the fastest services in the world when it launches.

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

They put in a number of their top assets to really turn the group around. Going forward, they have a team that can execute and meet their dates.

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.

They have completely crossed over into La-La Land.

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

They had credibility for a while. Now they need to show it.

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.

They didn't miss this time, and there was a lot of concern.

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.

There will be a vastly improved user experience, particularly for the 9x users. It is far more stable, reliable and secure than the 9x base. Unlike Windows 95, this actually delivers on the promises.