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History is filled with stories of companies that dominated their segment and then either fell from that high spot or fell off the map. RCA is probably the best example of a firm that went from dominance to obsolescence because, in its case, it played chicken with the U.S. government and lost. A lot of us think the iPad is unstoppable, but many...
As State of the Union addresses go, Obama's last week really wasn't bad -- with two exceptions. He kind of missed the Steve Jobs' lesson that if you are going to imply magical, what you say should be amazing. Having our "Sputnik moment" be faster trains, more electric cars, and faster Internet was hardly magic, though had it replaced this one in 1...
I've covered or worked in companies that have been led by iconic CEOs for most of my life, including Disney, IBM, Microsoft and Apple. While it is too early this cycle to be sure of what will happen to Apple, each of the other firms went through a painful transition after the departure of its iconic CEO. After Steve Jobs was fired years ago, App...
Last week, I was on CES withdrawal and lusting after the latest Apple killer product, the Motorola XOOM, which like the Palm Pre years before was best of show. However, the Palm Pre failed in market and never became the iPhone killer it could have been. Given that Palm was full of ex-Apple employees, you would have thought they would have had ...
This CES was full of surprises -- from Microsoft announcing Windows on ARM, to both AMD and Intel coming up with solutions no one had seen coming, to Nvidia building a Super ARM blended graphics/processor chip. And the TV company making most of the announcements wasn't Panasonic, Sony or Samsung -- it was little Vizio, which probably gave a lot ...
This week starts the biggest U.S. trade show of consumer electronics. CES is held every year in Las Vegas, which is kind of poetic given that it is the city of unrealized hopes and dreams. We will soon see how many vendors hit the mark and how many miss their target. Apple's shadow hangs over the show and at least one vendor, Samsung, is planni...
Instead of looking back at 2010, I thought it would be fun this Christmas week to jump ahead in the Enderle Time machine and look back at 2020. It was an amazing year with new faces and old hitting the tech and political headlines I'll close with my product of the week: the amazing and magical iPhone 14. ...
Another year is about over, and many of us are now given time to spend with our friends and families thinking back on the year that was and ahead to the year that will be. We have been and are defined by the choices we make, and often we can learn from the mistakes of others as well as their successes. I'll look back this week on 2010 and the ...
As we end 2010, 2011 is looking to be a relatively violent year when it comes to technology and technology companies. As I write this, there are folkscalling the attacks by Wikileaks supporters a cyberwar, but I think it is more of a cyber-revolt, and the difference is important. That difference is highlighted by the now declared war between Ora...
Google and Sony vs. Microsoft, and a Touch of Wikileaks Insanity Last week was rather interesting. Both Google and Sony were talking trash numbers in competitive comments against Microsoft. Google was arguing that up to 60 percent of enterprises were ready to go to Chrome OS, and Sony was creating the impression that it had sold 4.1 million PS3 Move products. ...
This has been an interesting month when it comes to tablets. Apple has pretty much owned the segment, but Samsung reports it sold (or shipped) 600,000 of its Galaxy Tablets in the first month, which may mean it's a player. HP almost had a surprise winner in its Windows 7 Tablet, but it can't seem to buy a break and under-forecast demand, which probably didn't please its new CEO very much. ...
This Friday is Black Friday. Well, we could probably call November Black Friday month, since many of the retailers started their discounting efforts last week. There will be an incredible number of deals to be had, based on some of the leaked information from megavendors like Best Buy. I think that having a strategy and some guidelines on how to...
Last week was an interesting week, with increasing coverage of the Oracle vs. SAP trial and word out that Larry Ellison had put a bounty out on HP's new CEO Leo Apotheker so his attorneys could chew him out on the stand for taking Larry's buddy's job. At the same time, Google gave its employees a whopping 10 percent raise and US$1,000 bonus just...
You may recall that even though this is a technology column, I did predict that Nancy Pelosi would be a problem for Obama, and that both Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina would lose. A few of us have been discussing this, and what was missing in all three cases is leadership. In the technology market, the most visible leader is Apple and the stron...
This may be election week, but the big political battle isn't really the mid-term elections -- it's the drama going on between Oracle and HP with the unprecedented action of Oracle's CEO and founder calling HP's new CEO a thief in what appears to be a massive pre-emptive effort to discredit the man. However, like the elections, I think this is mostly smoke to cover up other problems Oracle has, and that's what I'll focus on this political week.
Unfortunately, I think I'm part of a group that is becoming extinct. Regardless of which party holds office in the U.S., my true hope is for its success, because I have this twisted view that if we have successful president, we'll have a better quality of life. Unfortunately, both of the U.S. parties seem to be competing as to which can screw up the country more effectively and, at the moment, the Democrats are winning, largely because they control government. ...
With U.S. citizens getting shot on U.S. borders -- and the folks investigating them literally losing their heads, with Facebook and Twitter friends using location information to determine when your home is vacant and available for looting, and with the U.S. being named as botnet capital of the world, I expect we all are feeling less than secure at the moment. ...
Today Microsoft launches Windows Phone 7, and I've been thinking about this phone a lot over the last month. The closest metaphor to what makes this phone different from others is Superman. This isn't because when Superman launched, this hero was the underdog but rose to be the most powerful, in terms of movies, TV shows and branding of all that proceeded and followed him -- too early by far for that connection. ...
The column I previously had written for today was focused on how Todd Bradley was trying to force HP into taking him as CEO and ended with my hope that the company would make a more strategic choice. Imagine my surprise when it gave me and its investors an early Christmas present by doing exactly that. Given how aggressively Bradley was workin...
Java Creator James Gosling explained why he quit Oracle in an interesting interview on eWeek. It is clear he had no understanding about what happens in an acquisition, particularly for an old school open source unit that has been the exact opposite of a profit center. I've been part of a lot of mergers over the years, and we are now in a buyers' m...
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