Rob Enderle Quotes

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2006, at least after August['s Vista release], will be great time for buyers and sellers of PC hardware and that has to be a good thing for everyone — except Apple.

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Bernie Madoff, who was put in jail for losing $64B actually looks damn good against the Cook's near 5X bigger loss.

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[Steve Jobs] is not somebody [who] any one of us would want watching our kids, but, in terms of running the company, he's excellent.

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This will be a difficult year for Apple, and the iPhone could be more of a drag on earnings than a help.... Apple is clearly not going away — but this year, compared to last, will be really nasty for the company.

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Given Steve Jobs, for instance, is critical to Apple's success is there anything short of eating live babies on national TV that he should be fired for? Where would you draw that line or should he be held to the same rules and laws that the rest of us are held to?

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Frankly, it has frustrated me for years to watch Apple's success — while traditional bumbling PC companies continue to ignore the obvious point that yes, design and presentation actually do matter.

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We're creatures of habit. We lined up for the old Batman and Star Wars films long after they stopped being great, and we'll pay Apple the same courtesy if it loses its mojo.

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I asked the panel to list the companies that would certainly be around in the future — and those that wouldn't be.... There was some disagreement about Oracle. Microsoft and Oracle said that Oracle would survive; Apache said it wouldn't. I also asked which companies would be dead. The panel agreed that it would be Apple, Sun and Novell.

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Apple has recently done more with the tablet format with the iPod Touch and iPhone then any other vendor but the jury is still largely out on this format with challenging devices from RIM, Palm, and Google often showcasing that keyboards are necessary.

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Today's tech companies aren't built to last, as Apple's recent earnings report shows all too well.

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[Tim Cook's] position at Apple was to do the things Steve didn't want to do and to never be a threat to Steve, which means he likely is everything Steve isn't — yet he is trying to fit into a spot custom designed for Steve. Talk about your round peg in a square hole.

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Steve Jobs is the Ronald McDonald of Apple, he is the face.

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[Apple] carries a valuation of an image that is over-inflated due largely to the powerful efforts of Steve Jobs who made the company appear magical. As we end the year, the valuation of the company appears to have massive downward pressure and this is largely because the architect of that massively powerful image has passed — and along with that passing Apple's apparent leadership.

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I firmly believe that companies should be designed to be immortal.... Dell's future is bright largely due to the power of a founder who can think strategically and doesn't milk his company for personal gain. In the current environment that is a unique and powerful advantage.

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Apple tends to aggressively work to not discover problems with products that are shipped and certainly not talk about them.

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Samsung did to Apple what Apple did to Microsoft, skewering its devoted users and reputation, only better.... There is a way for Apple to fight back, but the company no longer has that skill, and apparently doesn't know where to get it, either.

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If [Apple's watch] bounces, folks will begin to lose faith.... watch the iWatch execution. That'll tell you whether this is a rebirth or the beginning of the end.

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Microsoft fully understands it can't beat Apple, Amazon or Google by chasing them, but it can beat them if it both revisits its old embrace and extend strategy, and then pulls a Steve Jobs to change the market.

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Apple no longer owns the tablet market, and will likely lose dominance this year or next.... this level of sustained dominance doesn't appear to recur with the same vendor even if it launched the category.

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With phones moving to technologies such as Apple Pay, an unwillingness to assure security could create a Target-like exposure that wipes Apple out of the market.

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I was recently at a meeting of analysts and vendors, and got into a conversation about Apple with one of the ex-Apple executives at the meeting. I got the sense that Tim Cook was hired because he was good at everything Jobs didn't like to do, and Phil Schiller was basically Jobs' internal fan club chairman. In other words, you really don't have a viable company without someone doing what Jobs did.

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IPhone 7 — We will again watch people line up to buy an iconic product that is only marginally better than the paid-for product they already have.... We'll smile, nod our heads, and ask Siri to remind us to check to see if our medical plan covers mental health.

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[The iPhone]'s clearly going to start a wave towards a new technology — as I say, I'm not convinced that Apple's going to be able to ride this wave.

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Apple's two most memorable accomplishments are the GUI, or graphical user interface, and the mouse, both of which it literally stole from Xerox PARC.

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Apple's move to vertical integration with processors could end up killing the iPhone, and the benefit just doesn't warrant the risk.

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