Steve Jobs’ Apple displayed a rather fascinating balance between design and utility. Granted, it often shifted more toward the design side, which resulted in problems like Antennagate, but that tended to happen when Jobs wasn’t around. He made sure the products worked well and looked good — he understood the need to do both. After Jobs left Apple in the 1980s, there were clearly changes to Apple’s products. However, it wasn’t until Windows 95 launched that folks actually seemed to look at Apple very differently, and not particularly favorably.
My respect for TECHNEWSWORLD has evaporated. Rob Enderle? Really? This is the one person (I won't call him an analyst, since he analyzes nothing) who has been the most consistently, completely wrong about Apple for the last two decades. Enderle's errors are so laughable they could make a great comic movie. Let's call it "Dumb, Dumber and Dumbest."
Enderle predicted the failure of all the following: iPod, iPhone, iTunes, several Apple laptops, the move to intel chips, the iPad, the Mac Pro, etc., etc. I'm not sure what negatives he may have tried to sneak into this writing. I couldn't force myself to read it all. Fortunately, all the predictions of Apple's demise offered by Enderle are preserved for eternity for all to get a chuckle out of. Search and you shall find. I've read them, mostly, just for a laugh. But they're not worth looking up to read again, once you've enjoyed the joke. The farther away you get from Enderle's former writings, the more glaringly wrong they appear as Apple continues to succeed beyond all imagination.
Well since you didn't read it I'll fill you in. He didn't even make it one paragraph before recommending another product which he wrote about at the end of the article. That product in all its greatest looks like a cheap plastic Casio in a supermarket cabinet. So he's spot on as usual.
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Apple Drifts Away From Jobs
Posted by: Rob Enderle March 16, 2015 05:00 AMSteve Jobs’ Apple displayed a rather fascinating balance between design and utility. Granted, it often shifted more toward the design side, which resulted in problems like Antennagate, but that tended to happen when Jobs wasn’t around. He made sure the products worked well and looked good — he understood the need to do both. After Jobs left Apple in the 1980s, there were clearly changes to Apple’s products. However, it wasn’t until Windows 95 launched that folks actually seemed to look at Apple very differently, and not particularly favorably.
Enderle predicted the failure of all the following: iPod, iPhone, iTunes, several Apple laptops, the move to intel chips, the iPad, the Mac Pro, etc., etc. I'm not sure what negatives he may have tried to sneak into this writing. I couldn't force myself to read it all. Fortunately, all the predictions of Apple's demise offered by Enderle are preserved for eternity for all to get a chuckle out of. Search and you shall find. I've read them, mostly, just for a laugh. But they're not worth looking up to read again, once you've enjoyed the joke. The farther away you get from Enderle's former writings, the more glaringly wrong they appear as Apple continues to succeed beyond all imagination.