Rob Enderle Quotations

It is the biggest cloak-and-dagger company we've ever seen,

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.

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.

It looks like a comprehensive package, but they've been working at this for some time, ... Most of us hoped they would be at this point a year ago.

I have trouble finding a study without it quickly being disqualified by who funded it,

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.

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.