Rob Enderle is as bias as it comes.
it is a fact that rob enderle is payed by various companies which stand to make profit by his extremely obvious bias reviews

everything he says is joke

How can one man be so wrong so often.

BWAHAHAHA some more!!!!

Find out more about the origins of the Mac from the very people who built it. From software to hardware. http://www.folklore.org“ title=”http://www.folklore.org“ target=”_blank” ref=”nofollow”>http://www.folklore.org

And according to recent news reports, AT&T is the only wireless company in the US that didn't lose money and this is attributed by analysts to the success (worldwide success I might add) to the iPhone.

The Prada phone did finally hit one million worldwide sales after 18 months, but compare that to the “undifferentiated” iPhone which took just 74 days to sell a million and that was in the US of A only.

I hope Enderle doesn't pick his own stocks or we're gonna see a, “Unfortunately the Enderle service will no longer be provided.” sign up here soon!

JoeL
Atlanta

Enderle is the biggest troll on the Web (a crown I thought John Dvorak would never relinquish) – yet somehow he manages to make money with his consistently brainless blather. For that coup I must salute him. Companies pay him to consult for them, when in reality he should be paying them for leading them so horribly astray.

Can't wait to see your efforts with Dell music crash and burn, Rob, while you cash your big check.

Yep, stupid like a fox…

Excellent analysis and all my compliments. Said in another way, I envy you for not having a clue and still getting paid.

Regards,

lux

Oh, and be careful that iMac doesn't fall on you, Rob.

Ruckus will take down iTunes by 2009? Umm…

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/06/college-music-service-ruckus-shuts-down/“ title=”http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/06/college-music-service-ruckus-shuts-down/“ target=”_blank” ref=”nofollow”>http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/06/college-music…

Yet another Enderle fail. I'm constantly amazed by how he's still considered an expert on anything. The guy is just plain awful.

Enter or return = Highlighted action (“Save” in this case)
Escape = Cancel
Apple + D = Don't Save

Escape and Return/Enter work like that in all apps and Apple + the first letter of the action works quite often.

Regarding the iPhone and other bits: What most people seem to get wrong is that the iPhone really isn't anything new. Calling, SMSing, applications, voicemail, etc, etc, etc… all old news. The reason why the iPhone should be brilliant is because of it's inbuilt software AND corresponding computer software (yep, trust me on this one!).

That's why the iPod is great. The iPod itself is good, but it's iTunes, the iTunes store and the way things work that makes it amazing.

If someone wants to make an iPod killer, they'll have to make an iTunes killer. I wish the Zune was… competition is healthy.

And as for some LG Prada v iPhone comparisons… The LG runs Java apps with Flash for its UI. The iPhone runs OS X with cocoa apps and uses Core Animation for its UI. Even if they looked the same (they don't), it's quite a substantial achievement to use full-featured and world leading techs for a handheld device.

There are some things I love about the mac and some things that drive me insane. For example, I hate not having keyboard shortcuts for somethings (or I just havent figured them out yet.)

For example, if you are closing an application like textedit and you have a document you've edited. You get the dialog that asks if you want to Save, Not to Save or to Cancel. Save is hilighted, but I dont know the keyboard shortcuts to the others. In windows you can just hit “S”, or “Alt+S” for save, and you have other short cuts for the cancel button.

This is just a small example, but little things like that drive me nuts. I come from using the keyboard 80 – 90% of the time on windows doing daily work to being forced to use the mouse more. I'm sure there are ways to do the same thing on a Mac, I just dont know how. There isnt anything that tells me how.

Anyways, I like my mac for productivity in terms of writing code. I hate it for everything else.

I agree with Smiley on gaming. I am a father of two, and when I have time to play games I like to play PC games. Console games dont do it for me unless it's Guitar Hero -\nn/

I like the look/feel of OS X, but vista is really cool too and I think it's leaps ahead of XP.

In any case, you'll always have two camps.

Back to ontopic: THE PHONE.

I like the look and design of the iPhone. I'm really really curious on battery life. I can't imagine something like that having good battery life, and since you can't replace the battery or carry a second one, it could be a pretty bad situation. Another bad situation is not having the phone open to 3rd party apps? Why not. Lord knows OS X needs all the help it can get at times for 3rd party developers. This could be a big boost to people moving to the mac and developing them.

From what I've seen on how you control the phone, it's damn cool.

You obviously have control issues as you are trying to manipulate the arguement – disregard what I say as rubbish, and regard what you say as “on-topic”.

First of all, I am a grown man with a family, so I do not appreciate your patronizing comments.

Secondly, I will agree that we both use computers for different purposes. While you may think that Apple has brought to market products that “people dream of” I can assure you that while you may be dreaming of the Apple, 90%+ of the people out there are dreaming of other things.

How has Apple made the phone you are searching for? Have you tried it yet? You act like you have, so let me ask you a few things:

1)How is the call reception?

2)Has it “crashed” on your yet?

3) How responsive is the touch screen? Does it get smudges on it easily?

4) What is the startup time? Does it take a while to boot up?

5) Are the applications easy to use?

The fact that you are blindly in love with an Apple product that is not out yet, tell me that you are not a reliable source of information for anything. You are clearly a big Apple fan, and a biased one at that.

“Once I had used Mac OS X for a bit and took my head out of Microsoft's A** I started to realize how much Windows held me back.”

Well it looks like you have gone from sticking your head up one ass, to sticking it up another…let me know how that works out for you! ;)

(the original poster actually said reliability, not security but I'll allow that to pass for now).

How quiet would Mac users get if there was one single in the wild virus for OS X? All it would take is one. But there isn't. A virus for OS X would cause headlines around the world and create a Windows fanboy hero. So the 97% argument doesn't hold much water.

“I would also argue that most Apple users are not very technical people, you need things to be as simple as possible because of your ignorance.”

More likely the opposite: as someone once pointed out to me, every Mac user will have had to use Windows, very few Windows users will have used a Mac. Mac users have made a choice therefore to ignore the mainstream. Is this ignorance?

I've worked with Windows since 3.11, Linux on and off and Macs since System 7: I prefer Macs, that's all there is to it. I look the way the OS works, it makes sense to me. I get more done cause things work more 'obviously' to me.

That's my preference, it's not everybody's. Fine. Whatever. You guys enjoy Vista and I'll look forward to Leopard.

Oh – and Mr Enderle, I have never read such an appallingly-researched article on technology in my life. Your understanding of basic concepts is shocking. The connections you make between unconnected elements of the story are tenuous to say the least. And your historical references are distorted to say the least.

I've worked as a journalist on and off for almost 20 years, and I'd have been ashamed to have an article of mine cause such derision.

RB

I refer you to my earlier post:
“Reliability, mission critical applications that actually work, integrated concepts, improved productivity, passion for our work and of course deadlines are important to Mac users. People with those demands demand a computer that only Apple has thus far provided.” …

Apple is not as reliable as you state. If Apple had the 97% marketshare that Windows had, there would be security issues too ;)

… “The only people saying bad things about Macs are the people who don't use them everyday.”

I like Macs, I really do, but they cannot handle everything that I need. I like to game and the Apple systems are not feeding my need.

“If you really care about games them save money and buy a console. Computers are not solely for gaming. Wake up!”

I think you are showing your age here. Maybe you need to remind Dell, HP, VoodooPC, Alienware, Velocity Micro etc about consoles, because apparently gaming on a PC just doesn't make sense to you. I will call Blizzard and the other PC game makers and remind them of this too ;)

You are seriously so blinded by Apple it makes you look crazy.

I would also argue that most Apple users are not very technical people, you need things to be as simple as possible because of your ignorance.

I am not paying $2000 for a machine that I would use for a calendar and iTunes, I am sorry…” -Smiley

I refer you to my earlier post:
“Reliability, mission critical applications that actually work, integrated concepts, improved productivity, passion for our work and of course deadlines are important to Mac users. People with those demands demand a computer that only Apple has thus far provided.” …

… “The only people saying bad things about Macs are the people who don't use them everyday.”

If you really care about games them save money and buy a console. Computers are not solely for gaming. Wake up!

Macs are the MOST compatible of any computer I have used. They can run any OS you want and run it well. With OS X, some extra software and it's amazing efficiency you can even do it simultaneously. Have you checked the system requirements to run Vista? Talk about a bloated system. Compare that to Mac OS X. Ultimate requires 40GB of HD space just for the install!!

And I hate to break it to you but there are plenty of Macs below $2000 and 3 of them below $1000. You better get off the couch and learn a bit about the world around you.

To tie this all back to the topic:
When somebody takes inspiration from another's idea and actually improves on it or makes it a real live product shouldn't be sued or harassed. They should be applauded for their innovation. Sitting on technology for the sake of profit is a crime. Consumers, no, the human race has suffered so much from companies being idiotic. Advanced fuel alternatives have been available for decades. Yet car manufactures have sat on the technology for the sake of profits and now they are paying the price with dwindling profits (GM, Ford). Microsoft did the same thing and so have the cellular companies. Obviously this technology was available. But it took a company that likes to “Think Different” to actually implement it. LG should have announced it earlier when they had a chance. But it looks like they were too worried about their melting chocolate.

Can someone give me a valid response please? Smiley's game argument is the most ridiculous I have ever heard.

If you're looking to discredit a device by finding earlier versions of similar devices then there are actually even earlier developments to the idea of a touch sensitive “tab” (palm-sized computing devices) and prototypes and mockups have existed since the late eighties, especially in universities and places like PARC http://www.ubiq.com/parctab/“ title=”http://www.ubiq.com/parctab/“ target=”_blank” rel=”nofollow”>http://www.ubiq.com/parctab/ )

The multi-touch system was also copied off Jeff Han's research ( http://cs.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch/“ title=”http://cs.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch/“ target=”_blank” rel=”nofollow”>http://cs.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch/ ). The idea of contact cards originally was copied off Rolodex. I've worked on audio system navigation and I can tell you that many people have tried (and failed) to convince companies to support a visual navigation system for audio content (visual voicemail as Apple calls it)

These concepts are not new. If Apple is to be faulted for anything, it's for implying that they came up with any of these ideas for the iPhone. That is false and unconscionable.

However, they have assembled them into a package that allows regular consumers to actually use these developments. I work designing interfaces for phones and I'm ecstatic because this may mean that we are now given more freedom to meet and exceed the interface ideas the iPhone is bringing to the table, instead of being constantly forced to copy the same old navigation systems (with shinier icons!) that phones had in the mid nineties.

Rukus doesn't allow you to burn a CD and the Zune is also not supported (since it can't play 'Plays for Sure' music.

Also Rukus won't run on Macs, even using the windows media player.

So what is important then? That I cannot use an Apple at work for lack of support, that I cannot play games because there are few for it?

I am not paying $2000 for a machine that I would use for a calendar and iTunes, I am sorry…

Reliability, mission critical applications that actually work, integrated concepts, improved productivity, passion for our work and of course deadlines are important to Mac users. People with those demands demand a computer that only Apple has thus far provided.

We are only Apple zealots because Microsoft hasn't done what Apple has. No matter what spec or idea you point to, your argument is flawed. This is because no other company has had the ability to give it's customers the quality, security and satisfaction that Apple has.

Microsoft locked in the business buck in the early days and Apple has had to play catch up. Now that people see their computer as more than an extension of their office, Macs are making a profound comeback. I help people everyday switch to a Mac. I switched to a Mac and others like me are posting about it. It is more than just a zealots call. It's a tangible trend. Don't be the last to find out what the fuss is all about.

Take Windows Vista, great concept with absolutely the poorest implementation. Implementation is key and the company that creates the best tool for the job gets my vote every time. It's the same reason that iTunes and iPod has ruled for so long. An easy, complete experience is what consumers demand now. No one wants to fuddle with time consuming jerry rigged solutions. We demand it because are lives are more important than our PC's.

Who wants to bother with unfamiliar and confusing UI's when Apple has the elegant and simple iPhone? It would be like buying a toaster that had a keypad instead of the obviously simple lever. Except the later device would actually achieve the desired amount of toasting whereas the complicated keypad toaster would constantly return bad results and only marginally function if not blow up.

Which one would you buy if you had an unbiased or slanted opinion? The only people saying bad things about Macs are the people who don't use them everyday. Yet the people switching to a Mac and becoming a zealot like me have actually used Windows for quite some time. Why would you trust the review of a person who hasn't even used the product for purposes other than finding the flaws?

Did someone slip LSD in your tea again?

Given that Apple was shown a GUI that Xerox was working on and knew it wouldn't see the light of day, they showed it to Apple. Something that any normal company would never do to protect their IP. Later Xerox attempted to sue Apple. Why? My guess is that they saw that Microsoft was attempting to sue them and figured that they would join the party. Boo hoo for Xerox for all but giving away their GUI idea.

As for the iPhone, are you not aware that Apple owns the trademark iPhone internationally? Cisco had the name iPhone for years and did nothing with it. It wasn't until rumors of Apple creating a phone that made Cisco jump and actually join a product to the name.

I say, we let the lawyers fight over that one and see who wins.

“I follow the lemmings”

I love making fun of Mac users, they make it soooo easy!! LOL

Have fun playing all of those available computer games….

hahah poor suckers!