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Fils-Aime mentioned mobile when he highlighted Nintendo's big moves this year, but that and its other new ventures may be too little too late, suggested Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. The problem is, Nintendo is becoming increasingly irrelevant, he said....

Crowdsourcing would allow Amazon to get "more feet on the street," noted Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst with the Enderle Group. "Like Uber, where you have lots of drivers on the street to pick up people, Amazon would have more drivers to move packages," he told ...

"WiFi is a local area networking protocol," noted Rob Enderle, principal at the Enderle Group. "It typically isn't a good long-distance protocol." On the other hand, WiFi should be an important connectivity medium for smart cities, "particularly for latency-insensitive applica...

"Amazon, Nintendo and Steam are all pushing ever-more-powerful alternatives, increasingly using cloud services -- much like Netflix used streaming to take out DVDs and tapes, to relegate the old market to the Blockbuster dustbin of history," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group...

Much to Apple's dismay, I cover Apple events. One of the questions that frequently came up during its recent developer conference centered on Tim Cook. Was he becoming Steve Ballmer? The implication was that Steve was a failure at Microsoft, so the comparison didn't reflect well on Cook. ...

"In both cases there appears to be an effort to double down on OpenStack in the hope the result lets them develop a solution that will scale," said Rob Enderle, principal at the Enderle Group "Neither company is yet willing to abandon OpenStack, and both feel there's still a ...

Amazon has a powerful back end, noted Rob Enderle, principle analyst at the Enderle Group. The company also has partnered with graphics hardware manufacture Nvidia in the cloud space, he pointed out....

There are things about working with large companies that can be really frustrating. For instance, when both Windows Vista and Windows 8 were coming to market, a number of us pointed out that things needed to be fixed before the product was released, but we were ignored, with catastrophic results. ...

The automotive market is an inbred industry, which poses "a significant problem for adopting any technology," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group Those that have been successful, like Nvidia and Qualcomm, have developed nearly complete solutions. That app...

While starting as a niche product, that could change over time, noted Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst with the Enderle Group "This could evolve to become far more useful and encompassing as designs make it more attractive and its features become more broadly appre...

Yet if the rumor should turn out to be true, the Android OS may be the big winner -- and Nintendo's decision to embrace the mobile OS might even be a bad thing, said Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst of the Enderle Group, in a discussion prior to Nintendo's rebuff of the Nikkei rumor...

I was at Dell's analyst conference last week and HP Discover is this week. As I was considering the contrast between the two companies, I started to think the contrast between Apple and HP is greater. ...

If there is one vendor on the planet that has the capability to fight Apple -- on paper, it is Lenovo. Lenovo this week will hold its annual Lenovo Tech World event in China, showcasing the company's new breadth. ...

"Let's step back from intent -- just because the Five Eyes agreed not to spy on each other doesn't mean they themselves can't be hacked or their methods used by others, both domestic and foreign, who are not a part of this arrangement," said Rob Enderle, principal at the Enderle Group...

However, a social element isn't needed for every app, noted Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. For focused apps -- ones that don't require input from others -- a shoehorned social component can even feel silly, he suggested....

Shifting Russian users to a government-mandated OS would entail numerous challenges. For one, Russian leaders would have enact laws requiring use of the OS and impose penalties for using iOS or Android, suggested Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "I doubt the...

"They seem to be able to move their servers fast enough that they can't be shut down," remarked Rob Enderle, principal at the Enderle Group. "There have been efforts to block them at the ISP level, but these have proven less than successful, as you have a lot of technical folks who know how to get around blocks."

"With games like this, it really depends on how well the game plays," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group The realism of the graphics and the relevance of the material are crucial, he suggested....

"Google "took the leadership position on GPS navigation" after buying Waze, no doubt irking Apple, which developed Maps because it didn't want Google to have that advantage, observed Rob Enderle, principal at the Enderle Group Apple's also looking to the future, when wearable ...

I was at the Qualcomm Internet of Things event in San Francisco last week during what was a major IoT event in the city. What is kind of amazing is the larger event was just a small part of the applications show that used to go on at the same time. This year it is twice the size of that older show. Companies are flocking to this IoT concept like ducks to water. This means in a few short years we are going to be up to our ears in connected things. ...