Rob Enderle Largely Quotations

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.

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.

It's a huge market and largely untapped right now. Kids want phones, but nothing really deals with their parents' concerns. This will quickly spread to all of the wireless services.

The consumer market is largely a fourth-quarter market nowadays, and this will severely damage the market. There is no way around it.