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The smartwatch probably will not fare well with consumers, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. He described the project as old school -- the way things were before DOS "The product is targeted at true tech geeks, folks that love to program and are good wi...

Apple held its huge product announcement event last week, and what once had people besides themselves with excitement has become a near pointless program of copied features and missed expectations. ...

"Google's dominance alone justifies an investigation just to ensure they aren't mis-acting," noted Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, "but the evidence they are is damning." The U.S. Department of Justice is looking into Google parent company Alphabet, which ...

Hand-scanning "is probably a more acceptable solution to many than facial recognition, which has had serious problems with ethnicity," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "It should be a ton better than credit cards and picture IDs, which are relatively e...

There was an interesting dialog between Elon Musk and Jack Ma last week. Two of the most powerful men in the world, they both have invested heavily in artificial intelligence. Ma, who is the Alibaba Group cofounder and a huge advocate for the 12-hour a day six-day Chinese work week in tech, indicated that he believed AI would reduce the work week from 72 hours (where it now is in China) to 12 hours -- that is, three 4-hour workdays. I think he has firmly stepped away from his reality. ...

"Believing that absolute privacy is even possible in the Internet age is delusional," cautioned Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "Everything we do is largely tracked and recorded, and I think it's better to learn to behave accordingly," he told the E-Commerc...

However, without tracking of some kind, both the consumer and the advertiser lose value, observed Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "Google lives off that value so this is self-serving." That said, "what we have isn't working, so there needs to be another pa...

"It is yet one more thing in a market increasingly awash with too many social networking apps," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, an advisory services firm in Bend, Oregon "Consumers are becoming overwhelmed with the number of social media apps they hav...

I'm struck by the extent to which Apple and Tesla are executing a model very similar to IBM's. While IBM has evolved to put the customer at the center always, Apple and Tesla are nuanced in that respect, much like IBM was in the past. ...

Microsoft "likely has a number of large contracts with the government, and they are typically far more exposed if a government wants to go after them, so they tend to be far more cautious," suggested Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group Apple and Google do not h...

I'm on the road about 50 percent of the time, and I'm often asked by those who don't travel much for advice on how to have a better trip -- what to carry with you, where to sit, how to manage frequent flier programs, and so forth. I figured I'd cover that now, given the kids are going back to school, and a lot of families are preparing to go on their last summer trip. ...

Security firms stimulate sales opportunities based on vulnerabilities. Reports such as the Eclypsium disclosures are sales vehicles, contended Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, and it is not unusual to see the results overstate the problems "In this instance...

"Data allows a podcaster to better hone their content and attract both advertisers and more listeners," noted Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "It is critical to building a podcasting business if you know how to use it," he told the E-Commerce Times. "You ca...

"If cash were best, Discover would be king, but they aren't, so it likely isn't," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "I expect Apple may have to alter this in the future." On the other hand, the Apple fan base "has historically been willing to take an Ap...

Like many of you, I'm tired of being upset about mass shootings and the government's seeming lack of progress to end them. I'm particularly tired of the partisan bickering around talking points that have no basis in fact. The left wants this to be about guns. The right, fearing that this effort will reduce gun sales, wants to blame mental illness and video games.

Like many of you, I watched eight-plus hours of Democratic debates last week, and they seem to be getting worse over time. The last effort made it look like CNN was trying harder to create drama than to help people make a choice among the candidates. ...

The technology could help people "who have lost the ability to speak but still have cognitive capability that would allow understanding and the ability to form speech-related thoughts," noted Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. However, training the algorithm...

Launching a new car company and getting it to global scale isn't something that happens often, and it has been a long time since there has been a successful launch of one in the United States. Tesla really stands alone as the only new U.S. car company of scale since American Motors and Studebaker failed decades ago, when three auto companies then dominated the U.S. industry. One of those car companies, Chrysler, first was owned by Mercedes and then Fiat. ...

The investigation "will put a microscope on big tech and it will empower those who focus on compliance, but without a decision framework, this is just likely to create confusion and reduce these firms' ability to execute short term," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group...

Shipping is the weak link in Square's offering, because "it introduces too much time and risk into the process," noted Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "It's likely a step in the process to develop something that doesn't require shipping and provide the same...