{"id":1421,"date":"2010-05-26T17:16:53","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T22:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=1421"},"modified":"2010-05-30T23:17:21","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T04:17:21","slug":"suck-it-rob-enderle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=1421","title":{"rendered":"Suck It Rob Enderle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704717004575268871873726284.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\">Today Apple&#8217;s market capitalization passed Microsoft&#8217;s<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From the mid-1990s death spiral to King of the Tech World following the return of Steve Jobs is perhaps the most impressive business turn-around story&#8230;well, possibly <i>ever<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p>In light of that, let&#8217;s take a moment to reflect on the awesome prognostication skills of one Rob Enderle, head of &#8220;The Enderle Group.&#8221; (Presumably he has a cat.) If you are unfamiliar with Mr. Enedrle&#8217;s work, he is the man who has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macobserver.com\/tmo\/death_knell\/\">predicted the demise of Apple more frequently than any other pundit<\/a>. Let us sample the fruits of Mr. Enderle&#8217;s unparalleled insight, shall we?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Apple has about 24 months to get its act together and position itself for the post-Longhorn world of Linux and Windows. If it doesn&#8217;t offer solutions that will play on those platforms the way iTunes currently does on Windows, it will probably become a footnote by the end of the decade.&#8221; &#8211; Rob Enderle, MacNewsWorld, May 13, 2004\n<li>&#8220;I also asked which companies would be dead. The panel agreed that it would be Apple, Sun and Novell.&#8221; &#8211; Rob Enderle, TechNewsWorld, November 24, 2003\n<li>&#8220;&#8221;The biggest long-term problem with moving to an Apple platform is that the company is in decline, which means you might have to migrate again at some point to another platform.&#8221; &#8211; Rob Enderle, TechNewsWorld, October 6, 2003\n<\/ul>\n<p>Which such startling powers of prophecy, Mr. Enderle is wasting his time as a tech pundit. He should be using his extraordinary powers in Las Vegas, where I&#8217;m sure he would soon amass a fortune the likes of which this world has never seen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Apple&#8217;s market capitalization passed Microsoft&#8217;s. From the mid-1990s death spiral to King of the Tech World following the return of Steve Jobs is perhaps the most impressive business turn-around story&#8230;well, possibly ever. In light of that, let&#8217;s take a moment to reflect on the awesome prognostication skills of one Rob Enderle, head of &#8220;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[206],"tags":[204,395,397,398,396],"class_list":["post-1421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-macintosh","tag-microsoft","tag-rob-enderle","tag-stocks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1499,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions\/1499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}