“Looking into its crystal ball, Gartner Group has predicted that Google’s Android will become the second largest smartphone platform by 2012,” Daniel Eran Dilger writes for RoughlyDrafted Magazine.
“Problem is, nobody’s talking about how terrible Gartner is at predicting things, or that Gartner’s ‘research’ has historically been paid for by special interests,” Dilger writes. “So why the headlines?”
Dilger writes, “Gartner doesn’t say such ridiculous things unless it is fully compensated to do so. Back in 1998 when Windows NT 5 was slipping behind (before it would optimistically be renamed ‘Windows 2000′), Gartner was assigned the task of championing the adoption of Windows 98 by corporations. What troopers these complicit paid-to-say suits were. If you weren’t paying attention back then, suffice it to say that Windows 98 was such a dog that it would have been remembered as the worst version of Windows of all time had it not have been succeeded by the even worse 98-SE and then Windows Me.”
Dilger writes, “In one of Microsoft’s antitrust suits, Gartner’s core competency as a shill group was detailed when confidential internal memos surfaced showing that Microsoft had paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in an effort that ‘successfully lobbied and changed the Gartner Group TCO [Total Cost of Ownership] model to show Windows as providing the lowest overall TCO [in comparison to NCs].’”
Full article – recommended – here.
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