“Not everyone’s convinced Apple Computer’s chief executive Steve Jobs will get away from the company’s current options grant drama unscathed,” Tiernan Ray blogs for Barron’s Online.
Ray reports, “Rob Enderle, Principal Analyst with technology research firm Enderle Group, in San Jose, California… thinks no one is taking this week’s Apple rumors seriously enough. ‘The stuff that’s being discussed now raises questions of criminal charges,’ for Jobs, says Enderle. And he thinks Jobs’s character and personality, as demonstrated over the years, are at the heart of the current drama.”
Ray reports, “In Enderle’s view, the two articles that have surfaced this week concerning Apple’s options grants, first from The Recorder, yesterday, and then today in the Financial Times, are both news, and they are both probably accurate.”
“The accounts of falsified documents both ‘fit within the behavior framework of what the real Steve Jobs is like,’ opines Enderle. ‘He has a history of not being particularly honest in regards to matters of finance,’ says Enderle. Enderle cites as examples of Jobs’s character various incidents in Jobs’s long career, such as his cheating of pal Steve Wozniak out of money in the early days before Apple Computer, his attempts to get then-CEO John Scully fired after bringing him aboard Apple in the ’80s, and his pushing out Gil Amelio when Apple acquired Jobs’s company NeXT in the ’90s,” Ray reports.
Ray reports, “Concludes Enderle: ‘Whenever you have falsification of documents and they’re tied to the CEO, it’s then very difficult to separate the CEO from the matter. It raises the question can he even be at Macworld’ in January, Apple’s annual kick-off event where the company usually announces new products. ‘Still,’ he says, ‘If there’s anyone who could survive this situation, it may be Jobs.'”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Barry” for the heads up.]
According to the Enderle Group website, “For over 20 years Rob has worked for and with companies like Microsoft, HP, IBM, Dell, Toshiba, Gateway, Sony, USAA, Texas Instruments, AMD, Intel, Credit Suisse First Boston, GM, Ford, ROLM, and Siemens.” Note the lack of Apple Computer, NeXT, and/or Pixar among the companies in Enderle’s list. Does Rob Enderle, who last year laughably proclaimed that “Microsoft wrote the first MacOS,” have any firsthand knowledge of the events he mentions to assail Steve Jobs’ character? Has Rob Enderle ever even met Steve Jobs? Enderle’s pathological opinions, which sound to us as if they were formed by reading unauthorized Steve Jobs biographies at best, aren’t worth a bucket of warm spit.
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Ah, yes. To be right about that twerp is truly gratifying.
i have had my insurance with usaa since 1969; now i am worried!
…in other news, Rob Enderle’s admitted lying puts into question whether or not he can be trusted for an opinion.
How does Enderle continue to publish crap?
Time for Jobs to file suit against Rob Enderle
Enderle = FUDmeister. That’s all you need to know.
That’s it, Rob. If you heap enough faux dung on Apple right now, you just MIGHT–I repeat, MIGHT–take a bit of the coming spotlight off of your client DELL.
Truth Alert: No matter what Apple’s problems may be, or not be, at this point, they PALE with what Dell is about to face. And I kid you not.
Here’s to you, Rob, you pathetic lackey. I can’t wait to see how you defend Mr. Dell and his cohorts in the coming months!
Rob Enderle is a coward.
For anyone who would like more info about Dell’s current SEC/NASDAQ problems:
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/111606-sec-probe-delays-dell.html
http://news.com.com/Dell+gets+non-compliance+letter+from+Nasdaq/2100-1014_3-6144279.html
Enderle is a nutcase and shouldn’t be allowed to comment on anything Apple because he is always 100% WRONG! He never knows what the heck he’s even talking about. Most real stock anaylsts say Steve Jobs did nothing wrong and is just following protocal when he hired a lawyer. Blowing things out of porportion and making up things to make it seem that much worse is all that most of these reports are doing.
If Rob is the ” Analyst with technology research firm Enderle Group,” who are the other employees? (his wife doesn’t count)
Enderle….. everything he’s ever said has been just plain dumb or FUD. …how do people like this become analysts? did he ever finish high school?
The problem with this idiot putting out the crap that he did is that it will be picked up by the AP tomorrow as a real news story in all likely hood… hmmm… how much money do I have in my account – hey thanks Rob, I felt foolish for missing Tuesdays and today’s drop, you just might have given me another chance. If I can add to my holdings at just under 80… that will be a $10-20 gain in the next two weeks…
OK, I think I just figured out the ONLY thing this tool is good for.
Enderle commenting on someone’s character is truly laughable. Every article he’s ever written could be considered a “falsified document”. Integrity is the last thing he should be bringing up.
The examples he gave were ridiculous. Trying to get Sculley fired, and getting rid of Amelio are what’s know as business. It speaks nothing of his character. The situation with Woz is a bit closer to the mark, but be was very young then. To condemn someone for something stupid that he did 30 years ago is really reaching.
Enderle would certainly love nothing else than to see Apple, and particularly Jobs, get hit hard by this. My guess is, at some point he really wanted to add Apple to his client list, but SJ took him for an elevator ride instead. That might explain his bitterness.
Will victorious road of Apple collapse without Jobs in 2007?
It should be obvious by now that “Enderle Group” is another way of saying he suffers from mutliple personality disorders.
steve jobs should sue enderle for defamation. this isn’t just opinion – enderle is making factual assertions about jobs’ integrity, and citing supposed examples to back up his claim that jobs is guilty of dishonesty both now and in the past.
i doubt jobs would do it, but (being a lawyer) i’m pretty sure he has a good case against enderle, and should be able to get sufficient damages to put this idiot out of business once and for all.
The more he opines about Apple, Jobs, or anything inbetween, he digs his own grave.
The bottom line on Enderle is this:
He makes a living promoting every other company on the planet outside of Apple’s sphere.
Quite frankly, Apple does not need Enderle or any other analyst for their product ideas, counsil or whatnot, and that threatens a guy in his consulting position.
Never will he be in favor of anything Apple does, but constantly play devil’s advocate because he knows where and how he makes his money – and who writes the checks.
Why the media, such as WSJ even validate this guy is the curious question. Then again, the main-stream-media is pretty much off its rocker in the first place.
Unbelievable how he can proclaim this: “Rob Enderle is one of the industry’s most influential analysts […] is one of the world’s most sought-after technology pundits”
He also said in a recent article: “What if in the early days they had followed Bill Gates’ vision instead of separating […] What if […] in the ’90s, when faced with the new OS choice, Apple had chosen Microsoft instead of Unix?”
Well, hello… Apple chose NeXT, thank God !
I couldn’t help making a quick look-up on Google Earth with the company address… you can clearly tell the guy operates his “group” from a house outside of San Jose.
What a fake !
The Onion should pick up his columns.
Enderle is a technological asshole. This buttbrain is the Ann Coulter of the tech industry. Someone should just tell him to shut the fsck up and get a job as a Microsoft salesman – oh wait, he IS a Microsoft salesman!
Every time this clown opens his mouth it spews more bullshit than all the lies ever told in this industry. He is a FUD peddler, a tech commie, a true moron that has no inkling about the industry he reports on. It’s like reading the tabloid version of the tech news.
How can this guy be allowed to carry on in this business? Who’s stuffing his pockets? How is he so “well-respected” by anyone? He makes me want to vomit. In his face.
I had the opportunity to sit down with Steve Jobs a recently at Apple Headquarters in Cupertino. We met in the boardroom. It was just Steve, myself and a man he had known for close to 30 years. We met for 45 minutes.
I can tell you as a matter of fact that Steve Jobs is as close to Evil as a human being can come. He is extremely inhumane!!!
Life is a very simple proposition. You get out of it what you put into it, and let me say Steve Jobs is so bad that he deserves the worst.
I realize that many people who read this will say that I am making it up or that this is a fake, but I can assure you it is very real.
Steve Jobs is not only a rotten apple, but he is pure evil. Being an extremely devout Mac user it was extremely difficult for me to reconcile Steve’s behaviour. I think Steve has some redeeming qualities, but if you guys experinced what I did your jaws would drop to the floor.
Enderle is just the M$ version of MDN: both come out with rediculous unsubstantiated hatefull garbage.
Rob’s Cellphone number from his website…
(408) 832 6326
@Jake
You’ve just watched PIrates of Silicon Valley, haven’t you…?
Let me guess. Did he ask you if you were a virgin?