[Swordmaker]

Apple blindsided by the longest product release in history. . .

HAHHAHAHAHHAHEHEHEHEHEHHAHAHAHAHAHHOHOHOOHOHOHOHOHO

Gasp, snicker, second breath—

'Droid, a product that doesn't even exist yet from a failing cell phone maker. . .

HAHHAHAHAHHAHEHEHEHEHEHHAHAHAHAHAHHOHOHOOHOHOHOHOHO

[Swordmaker]

"How Microsoft blindsided vulnerable Apple with Windows 7"—PINGeroonie!

I'm speechless. In awe of such monumental irrelevance as Enderle's opinion on Apple... Enderle, the "principal analyst" of the Enderle Group which consists of Bob Enderle and his wife... she probably answers the phone.

"Vulnerable," "Blindsided" Apple Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me

[reefdiver]

Love my i phone and Mac.

[johniegrad]

they sit stunned that Windows 7 is doing so well and they are left looking foolish with products priced out of the segment

Sorry, couldn't get past this.

[Swordmaker]

". . . an inability to market the product’s advantages because the Microsoft team had no money left."

I wonder if Microsoft knows they had no money left to advertise Vista?

How many billions does Microsoft have in cash???

But, according to the insightful, perspicacious, and stunning analysis by Rob Enderle—Principal Anal-ist of the Enderle dynamic duo—Microsoft can't buy a classified ad in the personals to tell people that Vista unfairly gets no respect. . . and should.

[Ouderkirk]

We will see if Microsoft can turn it around. If Window 7 is as good as they say, it will certainly give apple a run for the money. If it sucks, it will boost Linux.

The Betacam mindset of Apple has limited the acceptance of it’s OS. Not everyone digs apple hardware.

[gusopol3]

But isn’t Apple partnering with Segway?

[RetroSexual]

They likely would have done better putting fir on the damn thing and building it to fart the star spangled banner at least that would have been patriotic.

Huh. A wood veneered mouse might make a nice desk accessory.

I've rarely seen such an ignorant "analysis," but I have to admit the new mouse looks pretty cool, and I had ignored it's mention in the press releases. I'll have to get one.

[RGSpincich]

They likely would have done better putting fir on the damn thing and building it to fart the star spangled banner at least that would have been patriotic.

Trees? On a moose?

[opticks]

wow. what a terrible piece of writing.

[jeph]

By two paragraphs in, I was thinking that this was actually written by Steve Ballmer.

[martin_fierro]

Around these parts, should the iPhone eventually partner with Verizon (the latter having a much larger footprint), sales of both should skyrocket.

[martin_fierro]

Rob Enderle, principal analyst, Enderle Group

Something tells me he's also the receptionist and janitor there.

[6SJ7]

This last will likely go down in history as one of the lamest devices yet as they should know, given the iPhone, that touch is connected to the screen and not anything else.

Enderle apparently never considered the ergonomic problems with large vertical touch screens referred to as "gorilla arm".

[randita]

I’m in the market for a new MacBook Pro, so one upside of this for me is maybe Apple will cut their prices a little.

[Patrsup]

Well the fan-girlies are out in force here. You guys probably drive Volkswagens (or Saturns (for a completely and much more frightening reason)). You identify with your technology.

I see you every day. I work in IT. You know what - my coworkers and I put our feet up on the desk drink coffee and tell stories about you. The cool pastel shirt.....

All - Have a good weekend

[TheStickman]

Reads like FUD to me. I have Win7 on a new Toshiba laptop. It’s a big improvement over Vista. However, I would MUCH prefer OS X to be on here (probably never happen) or a flavor of Linux. OS X just works without issue.

[seastay]

I first used a mac in 1979, thought is was the coolest thing ever but even then out of the price range for a college student. Cool however, compared to having to use punch cards and submitting data to a mainframe. Apple has always been ahead of the cool curve, but - eventually grew up and switched to IBM and dos Microsoft when I grew up to find there was a price to pay for cool. Microsoft user for 20 years now, and sure it has all sorts of problems, but the hardware is cheap, just get new stuff when it doesn't work anymore, newer stuff has better features and so on. I still use mac on occasions, but given I work in engineering, there is not that many scientific number crunching apps for mac, science is not cool, and cool of course is what the mac is all about. Every has to be cool though, so the Ipod was and is a great invention, yet my experience with the 4 or 5 that I have owned they all had reliability problems, only one actually works. Like Microsoft computers ipods are cheap, so when one breaks or becomes out of date I can get a new one. However, I still am not inclined to switch back to a mac, its not a throwaway like an IPOD or a windows computer, and I don't even need to be cool anymore with a thin white monitor or whatever the latest thing is, middle aged has tainted me, I confess. One thing though, - can still keep up with my teenager with phone texting, and to that end why anybody would want an I phone with a touch screen keyboard when they can have a blackberry with keys is beyond me, but then maybe its just the apple cool hype over being practical that I just never have grasped in my old age. And as they say you can't teach a old dog new tricks, so the trick I learned (from apple) in 1979 that a keyboard for data entry is way better than punched cards I guess I will take to my grave along with my blackberry and virused windows PC which in all likely hood will be the reason I end up in the grave.

[GOPJ]

I'm waaaaaay past the point of caring if Microsoft makes a better computer. I want them to answer those damn Apple TV Ads.

[Wright Wing]

Enderle is on the Microsoft payroll. If this hasn’t been made clear since his lunatic ramblings on HD-DVD than I don’t know what can make it any clearer. This is Microsoft propaganda, plain and simple. As soon as I saw the name Enderle, I stopped reading.

[ctdonath2]

Oh, like nobody knew Windows 7 was coming. Like Apple didn’t have the public beta of it for a year.