Rob Enderle - Company Quotes

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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.

Rob Enderle
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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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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[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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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.

Rob Enderle
[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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