On Monday, August 01, 2005, self-described “Principal Analyst” Rob Enderle of the one-man Enderle Group (unless you count Rob’s wife, which obviously he does, hence his usage of the word “Group” in the title of his tax write-off) wrote an article for TechNewsWorld in which he stated:
“As demand for a new product goes up, demand for existing products goes down, which is part of the risk Apple took when pre-announcing the move to x86. Recent surveys indicate demand for Apple’s existing products is dropping like a rock as a result.”
One week later, on Monday, August 8, 2005, Enderle tacked the following onto some tripe about Windows Longhorn that he wrote for TechNewsWorld:
“One other thing: Several folks questioned my comment that Apple demand was dropping like a rock and referred to past sales performance to refute this. Demand is measured by surveys of buying intent and I rely on surveys done for the financial firms who follow Apple. Unfortunately I don’t have the rights to share the results. But the financial reports you have seen are based on sales before Apple announced the Intel move — and the impact of that development won’t show up in the financial reports until after this quarter ends. If the studies are to be believed, the fourth quarter, in particular, should be ugly for Apple.”
Now to be fair – even though fairness should be out of bounds for this one – Enderle did tack on one weak attempt at an ass-saver with:
“Granted, forward-looking studies are often unreliable, but the study I’m now using did accurately predict that last quarter would be very strong.”
Judgement Day
We had originally stated that it sounded to us like Enderle was referring not to Apple’s fiscal fourth quarter (Q4 05) which ended October 11, 2005, but the fourth calendar quarter of 2005 (Oct. – Dec., 2005). For the record, Apple shipped 1,236,000 Macintosh units in Apple’s Q4 05 ended October 11, 2005, following up strongly on the 1,182,000 Macs shipped in Apple’s Q3 05, and showing 48 percent growth in Mac unit shipments year over year. Yesterday, Apple released their earnings report that showed the company shipped 1,254,000 Macintosh computers during the quarter, representing 20 percent growth in Mac sales year-over-year and record revenue and profits of $5.75 billion and $565 million respectively.
So, in the end, Enderle and the studies he used were wholly inaccurate. Fourth quarter, now matter how you look at it (Apple’s Q4 2005 or Q1 2006), was certainly not “ugly” for Apple and Mac demand did not drop “like a rock,” it rose.
Side note: Rob “Microsoft wrote the first Mac OS” Enderle seems overly concerned with earthquakes and things dropping like rocks. Any bets that he got hit on the head really hard by falling objects at least once in his life?
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Related MacDailyNews articles:
Apple reports Q1 2006 earnings results: record revenue and earnings – January 18, 2006
Enderle: ‘Some people got really excited by the new iPod, but a growing number of people did not’ – October 19, 2005
Apple Q4 05 earnings report: best quarter & best year in company history – October 11, 2005
Tech pundit Enderle: ‘Microsoft wrote the first Mac OS’ – September 28, 2005
Tech pundit Enderle incorrectly compares Apple’s Mac OS to iPod licensing – September 01, 2005
Enderle: ‘Surveys indicate demand for Apple’s products is dropping like a rock’ due to Intel switch – August 01, 2005
Tech Pundit Enderle: ‘fourth quarter should be ugly for Apple’ – August 09, 2005
Enderle: ‘iPod Halo Effect is just a myth, same thing as having Paris Hilton visit Apple stores’ – May 02, 2005
Tech pundit Enderle: Apple’s Mac OS X Tiger’s main features ‘borrow heavily from Longhorn’ – May 02, 2005
Tech Pundit Enderle: ‘This year will be more difficult for Apple Computer’ and iMacs in earthquakes – January 24, 2005
Enderle wrong? When was he right?
MicroCrap and Windoze users probably love him. Probably the only ones who do
A few days ago I here quoted Mr. Enderle to have said ‘iPod sales are falling like a rock’. I was wrong. What he really said is ‘demand for Apple’s existing products is dropping like a rock’. I am sorry I messed it up. All because I NEVER CHECKED THE SOURCES before writing.
By the way, the Enderle Group has a very impressive motto:INTEGRITY, CREDIBILITY, PERSPECTIVE, INTELLIGENCE.
http://www.enderlegroup.com/
Cheers.
Common, this is all a scam by this guy to get hits on his site to keep up the ad revenue and whatnot. If he is half as intelligent as he likes people to think he is, he would have figured this much out.
Still, it’s got to irk him to some degree to absolutely lie outright about stuff that in the end makes him look like an moron. In other words he is a Microsoft whore.
Rob is a joke and knows nothing about Apple’s business. Why anyone would take his stuff seriously is beyond me.
Rob is a market guy not a tech guy.
He markets by spreading good BS about his clients and bad BS about his clients competition.
He does not work for Apple. Anything he says about Apple is suspect.
Fudmeister is a good descriptive name for him.
so,
if mr. Enderle is having sex with his wife (shudder), will that qualify as “group sex” then?
(MW: act)
Nobody is completely wrong.
That means there must be some people out there who are suffering bereavement due to loved ones having been killed by iMacs toppling over in earthquakes.
Rather than making cynical jokes, I suggest we show more respect for their suffering.
Perhaps we could organize a collection!
Typo: It’s “no matter how you look at it” – not “now matter….” Maybe you got mixed up with “now that I look at it” in your mind.
Ahh, age … it sneaks up on you, eh?
MW: “nuclear.” If y’can’t even pronounce it, you should keep your fingers nowhere near the button lest we arrive at the Enderle world.
Oh. My. God. Enderle. Was. Wrong? Gasp!