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At a rumored US$1,400 sale price the coming iPhone 8 likely will test just how much people are willing to pay for a new phone -- particularly, how much parents are willing to fork over for their kids. While iPhones once conveyed status and sense of luxury, similar to a brand like Cadillac, pretty much everyone and their brother has iPhones today ...

The way Comcast's and Google's ToSes are worded "suggests that even if you store information with them they can use and repurpose it," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group The wording suggests that these services own the content sent through their services...

Samsung also does a better job of marketing its phones than others, added Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "It's going to come down to marketing execution," he told TechNewsWorld. "I have no doubt that they'll have the budget because they just had a phenomen...

Facebook knocked it out of the park with its financials last week, and a lot of its success comes from Zuckerberg's unique focus. Unlike other firms that jump from project to project, ranging widely from what makes them money -- like Google -- Facebook stays close to what made it successful. There is no stronger evidence than when you compare the two office projects from Apple and Facebook.

I just finished reading an interesting hard science fiction book called "The Punch Escrow" by Tal M. Klein (a movie is in the works) ...

"This survey did indicate the respondents wanted knowledgeable staff -- and for that, I'd argue part of the knowledge is knowing about the customer, not just the product, so that the advice can directly address the customer's unique problem," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group...

However, Ask Avnet is "more of a limited response system, and we've had those for some time," noted Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "You could do what they're demonstrating with scripts, for the most part, and an old expert system," he told TechNewsWorld. "...

HP just took over the PC market lead worldwide. You probably don't get how incredible this is, so here's an analogy: It's as if a crooked referee put a bunch of lead on a racer who already was overweight and shuffled him to the back of the pack, but in the end, the guy finished first. You'd seriously want to look under his T-Shirt to see if you'd find Superman's costume. ...

"The Wright Brothers' 'Kitty Hawk' was a test of concept, not a practical vehicle -- and at this phase, so is Hyperloop," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "Before Kitty Hawk, the idea of heavier-than-air flying was debated. After, it was whether it co...

"They can have their cake and eat it, too," remarked Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "The goal here is to remove one of the reasons for abandoning Windows and moving to a pure Linux load," he told LinuxInsider....

When we have a hostile country regularly lobbing missiles into the ocean with the stated objective of transforming a U.S. state into a radioactive cloud, we have a problem. One "oops" and we could suddenly become a 49-state nation again -- and that is only if we forget the issues with fallout and the potential for a nuclear winter (granted, that could be good news for the global warming folks). ...

The most important takeaway from the survey is that "there's such a big disconnect between what the companies believe their loyalty score should be and what it is," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group Digital Transformation Issues...

Amazon's significant expansion into yet another market -- this time, grocery stores -- dominated many of my conversations last week. Clearly, Amazon warned us. I've been here before -- you see, back in the 1990s, when Amazon was just books, I was running the company's e-commerce unit. I got into an argument with one of the analysts focused on Amazon, who believed the company wouldn't go beyond books. I argued that the model it was using could -- and would -- expand to other things, but even I wasn't thinking broadly enough. ...

"More voices on the same message can better influence than a single voice on the same message because the former is more tightly targeted and the people delivering the message are more trusted," remarked Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group B2B Micro-Influencer...

Whether Adobe and Digital River will succeed is questionable. "The customer takes on some integration risk," noted Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group The risk is that the two offerings may not necessarily be designed to go together, and customers may have to n...

"Ideally, you'd want the underlying operating system to be zero, because you want it entirely out of the way," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "This isn't there yet," he told LinuxInsider, "but it's very thin and gets out of the way as much as possible...

I was at Qualcomm last week, listening to an economist talk about Apple's complaints that Qualcomm had charged Apple too much for access to patents. What I thought was fascinating was that Apple had folks focused on the 5 percent that Qualcomm had charged it instead of on the massive profit that Apple made on each phone. ...

The two mammoth events last week were the Apple developers conference keynote and ex-FBI chief James Comey's appearance at a Senate committee hearing. Now I'm sure a lot of folks didn't have the time to watch both events -- and particularly for the Comey event, I'm sure the coverage has the right and the left believing very different realities. ...

"Softbank has been a big backer of robotics," noted Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group Japan is "working to corner that market," he told the E-Commerce Times, "so these firms are strategic to both SoftBank and Japan."

"A game console lives and dies on the content," observed Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. Nintendo "needs to do a great job with head-to-head games, and this title stands out as both fun and a good showcase for the company's skills," he told TechNewsWorld...