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Over the years, I've had long "discussions" with Apple fans on why Apple can't actually put Microsoft out of business. Many seem to think the event is imminent, while I clearly believe it is impossible. To make a point like this, however, you need a reverse example, and the new Zune is likely the best product for the purpose. By all measures, it is a better media player than Apple has ever produced, but with Apple as dominant as it is in this area, there is virtually no chance that Microsoft will displace it. In this market, the seats are reversed -- but the rule still holds. To take out a dominant vendor, building a better product simply won't get the job done. ...

"It makes sense to offer lightweight apps, because they don't want to cannibalize their Office suite revenue," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "They want to give people access to good online apps but have them still be willing to pay for an offline office suite." Microsoft's Office suite provides a good chunk of its revenue, he told TechNewsWorld.

However, the technology is sound, Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. It might depend on one's point of view -- is it some sort of hobbled tablet netbook, or is it a pumped-up digital photo frame? In Enderle's view, it's the latter. "They are the most capable, enhanced digital picture frames currently on the market that I know of, not something else which has been de-featured," he said...

The approach is novel, but it may not work, contends Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "This moving media around the house category with AppleTV and products like this has been problematic, and Seagate's approach is to take a hard drive sneakernet product focus," he told TechNewsWorld. "That's unique, but I'm not convinced the market gets it. It's a tough product to sell, and the entire category is troubled."

"On a tablet form factor, where you can work on a flat surface, four-finger touch may actually make more sense, because that makes it easier to collaborate," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld Lenovo optimized the firmware for both devices ...

You couldn't help but feel for the U.S. president last week as he tried to sell an unpopular health plan. Sometimes you have to realize the foundation of something is just so bad that no amount of patching or selling will fix it, and while it looks like you are close to done, you'd actually get done more quickly if you started over properly. ...

I'm atIFA as I write this, and in Europe, green clearly does matter. Here, they even have a viableGreen Party, but in the U.S., I sometimes wonder whether we care. This was showcased in a presentation in which Sony ranked geographical areas in terms of the importance of green, and the U.S. came in last. ...

"By itself, this is a 'me-too' Blu-ray player," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group. "It really only stands out when coupled with a Regza Toshiba TV." Vendors offering Blu-ray disc players are beginning to closely couple these devices with their TV sets, Ender...

On the other hand, it could open up a can of worms for Nokia. "Tying into social networks is an interesting idea, but different people have different networks," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "Not everyone is on Facebook or MySpace or Twitter."

"Skype remains the leading VoIP service and, as such, it has a substantial amount of value, particularly when positioned competitively against Google Voice," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times The Joltid lawsuit won't amount to much ...

However, it could have a place in the high-margin world of desktop replacement notebooks, especially for engineers, graphic designers and others who require the additional display space, Rob Enderle, principal analyst for the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld "Whether you're t...

Last week's big news was that Apple pushed up its Snow Leopard release by a month to provide a 60-day buffer between it and Microsoft's biggest launch of the decade. Apple can't match either Microsoft's resources or price, but the feat of snagging an unchallenged 60 days during the back-to-school and early holiday shopping season points to Apple's greatest advantage: Its marketing leader is also its CEO. Microsoft is fielding its best marketing team ever for the Windows 7 launch, led by Kathleen Hall, who was hired out of a leading advertising agency -- but she isn't the CEO. ...

Chrome, in fact, is already nibbling away at Android's market. "The Chrome OS did substantial damage to the Android momentum when news of it was released prematurely," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "One OS positioned against Microsoft is hard enough, and trying for two competing platforms at the same time is near-suicidal," he told LinuxInsider...

An unfortunate side effect of a celebrity like Steve Jobs getting sick is that a huge number of us are collecting stories to go into articles and books that would mostly show up after he passed. I ran into two new stories I hadn't heard before last week, and one of them was rather juicy and eventually tied into the "iPad." ...

"This feature would make the top 10 list of things a thief most wants to see on Twitter," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "For instance, if the feature is on because you want people to know where you are vacationing, people will also know you are away from your home and that your stuff is relatively unprotected."

This feature embodies one of the most compelling aspects of the thin client idea -- that users can work on multiple devices simultaneously and access their work on any of them without losing their place in an application or project, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group.

Regardless of what I wrote last week, which focused on Apple's problems coming out of the Red Hat event, Apple is on a roll. It's expected to gain substantial share this quarter because Snow Leopard will make it into the quarter and Windows 7 won't. However, in October, Microsoft is planning to come back with a rush, and next year will bring its not-so-secret weapon: the Apple-targeting Microsoft store. ...

This latest version of the Chrome browser beta will only add to the confusion in the market, Rob Enderle, principal analyst of the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld "Google's original plan to move against Microsoft was to get a large number of people on the Chrome browser, get...

Summer is a time to relax, a time to take a vacation, a time to do things you can't do during the work year. However, I'm not sure any time is a good time to send your brain on vacation, and I'm starting to wonder if the leaders at Google and Apple have done just that. Granted, Steve Jobs has a good excuse. He should be taking it easy, and I think he also should take a vacation from his vegan diet -- have you seen this picture? He and I both have this obsessive/compulsive thing, and man is he ever an example of that getting out of control. ...

Most companies like to keep competitors at arm's length and choose very carefully those projects where they can become "frenemies." However, Apple has an especially tough time working and playing well with other tech giants, said Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst of the Enderle Group...