Rob Enderle, head of “The Enderle Group” — a massive “group” which consists of himself and his wife Mary — rubs both of his brain cells together today in a failed attempt to compare and contrast Steve Jobs and Steve Ballmer.
Enderle writes, “Jobs is like a master craftsman. The first things he did when he took over at Apple were get rid of the bozos (underperformers), massively simplify the company and its products, and force tightly integrated products that approach — and sometimes surpass — amazing. To Jobs, the customers are end users who don’t really know what they want (he correctly doesn’t use research — specifically focus groups — to create great products); IT is made up of bozos who should be ignored; and excellence is defined as well-integrated products and services that catch your breath every time you use them.”
MacDailyNews Take: Miracles happen. Amazingly, Enderle doesn’t start off half bad. He goes downhill quickly, however.
Enderle writes, “Ballmer is a master salesman.”
MacDailyNews Take: Oh, really? Ballmer can’t seem to sell products outside of his company’s monopoly-backed core areas: Windows and Office. Okay, he does sell game consoles that don’t work and costs billions to be fixed, but he hardly dominates even that market, either. Monopoly-backed products don’t require much, if any, sales effort. Anything else that this “master salesman” tries to sell, doesn’t sell very well: Zune, search, online music… he can’t even sell Windows Vista with a monopoly in place! Steve Ballmer isn’t a master salesman. Steve Ballmer is a master at getting a lucky dorm assignment, parlaying it into billions of dollars, eventually getting a CEO position for which he is woefully unprepared, and turing out mediocre or worse products that increasing tech literate consumers simply aren’t buying.
Enderle writes, “Where Jobs gets stuck is that he doesn’t get that in the PC segment, for about 70 percent of the market, IT gets the ‘No’ vote, and they are understaffed and overworked, not ‘bozos.'”
MacDailyNews Take: Yeah, Steve Jobs doesn’t “get it,” but Rob Enderle does? Puleeze. Jobs is simply positioning Macs to go around the IT roadblock by creating end user demand to such an extent that Macintosh can no longer be ignored or put down by ignorantly reciting a list of myths. Most of IT actually is made up of bozos who routinely sacrifice employee productivity for job security.
Enderle writes, “For Jobs to ‘make a dent in the universe,’ he needs to scale up massively and probably partner more aggressively so he can offer a more complete solution.”
MacDailyNews Take: Dummy, Jobs has already made several dents in the universe. Or hasn’t Rob noticed that his POS Acer laptop is running an upside-down and backwards poorly faked Mac UI? The Mac won that one long ago. Personal computer users today either suffer along with fake Macs or use the real thing. Perhaps Rob also missed the iPod? Or iTunes? Or the iTunes Store? Or QuickTime? Or Pixar? Or the iPhone? Or any number of other “dents in the universe” that Jobs has made?
Enderle writes, “For Ballmer, he needs to focus back on ensuring the quality of what his company offers in the eyes of the user and become passionate about the bottom-line performance of each of his varied units. Basically, he needs to focus back on the management fundamentals, revitalize Microsoft’s marketing and create the kind of quality across Microsoft that already is being demonstrated by Apple and his own server and tools business. It might also be wise if he stopped Apple’s active campaign to disparage his key products.”
MacDailyNews Take: How is Steve Ballmer going to stop Apple’s “Get a Mac” campaign? Threaten to “Knife the Baby?” That isn’t going to work this time either. It’s plainly obvious that Steve Ballmer is an idiot. So is Rob Enderle.
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Enderle is a moron.. him and Dvorak should be put in the “never really got it” hall of fame.
Rob Endertimes. Gets it. Not!
Enderle’s pointless “brain” farts were old a decade ago! The real story would be uncovering the stooges who are paying this clown to write…anything!!
“It’s plainly obvious that Steve Ballmer is an idiot. So is Rob Enderle.”
Come on, MacDailyNews, quit pulling punches and tell us how you REALLY feel!!!!!!
The fastest way for Ballmer to place Microsoft on the path to “revitalization” would be to … resign.
Enderle is an utter A-S-S-H-A-T. That gasbag is an embarrassment to the Word Moron League.
“For Jobs to ‘make a dent in the universe,’ he needs to scale up massively and probably partner more aggressively”
I agree. Apple has dented many industries, but needs lots and lots of people to move into the enterprise. They are crap at doing it themselves (based on my experience of running 500+ Mac sites). I suggest IBM since they are already out of the PC business and have a history of working with Apple.
Well, I usually criticize MDN for being over-the-top, but Enderle is such an idiot, that I actually found MDN’s take a little restrained!
You should also check out Fake Steve Jobs’ supposedly contradictory takes on Ballmer’s failed Yahoo! bid…I love the Colbert-esque irony of the latter:
Ballmer now looking for other companies to not buy
Ballmer’s brilliant move
Thanks, Rob, for summarizing “Inside Steve’s Brain” by Leander Kahney for us. Kahney should go after this guy. The parts Kahney doesn’t cover in his book — namely, Steve Ballmer — Enderle is left to conjure up himself, and can’t.
Attention, “enterprise” geeks: what is the most stable machine in the enterprise? Be honest, now. Yes, it’s the mainframe. Attention, “enterprise” executives who won’t single-source hardware and software: what have your adventures with Unix and Windows bought you? Be honest, now. Yes, that’s right, REBOOTS.
Hey, if you don’t value availability, keep buying your POS Sun, H-P, and Dell. Even your AIX.
When you want stability and yes, VALUE… come to Apple.
Apple is doing quite well without an emphasis on enterprise.
I read Enderle’s comments. This guy has his head stuck so far up MS’s as* that its no wonder the sun never shines on his brain. Or whats left of it.
He cannot accept that Microsoft has done some major screwups and sometimes MDN shares that same fault. All companies make mistakes and sometimes they make decisions that require time to see if they are right or wrong.
I like Apple products and I like the way Steve Jobs runs Apple. THe customer needs to come first not just making money on them. Ballmer has shown that MS only cares about money. WHat ever they have to do to make it is what matters. The problem is that doing things that way screws up you and I.
Apple is not perfect, but as you and I have seen, we enjoy Apples products much better than the stuff we get reamed with from MS.
Anyway, I continue to totally discard Enderle since he just cannot accept that MS can screw up as bad as they do. Either that or he knows what is going on and just takes the money and looks the other way. 🙁
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And Gorbachev should have tried to turn the Soviet Union around. Oh, he did, and destroyed it. Why? Because some things are so busted they can’t be fixed.
The USSR = Micr$oft
“Most of IT actually is made up of bozos who routinely sacrifice employee productivity for job security.”
Uh-huh…right.
Talk about regurgitating myths.
No NO!!! SB is a BRILLIANT Salesman!!!!!
I have proof!!!!
Just ask the DEVELOPERS!!! DEVELOPERS!!! DEVELOPERS!!!
GOOD GRIEF!!!!!! Unlike Jobs Passion….. Ballmer is in DESPERATION mode.
It just AMAZES me that this guy is a CEO…
iJah420 says What A JOKE!!! Monkey BOY!
BTW. I would love to keep track of the Stupid Human Ballmer quotes… if my mem serves correct what did he say about the iPhone Market share… something like IF they get 1% of the market they will be lucky?
I really do take offence to some posters on this site who refer to Steve Ballmer as a monkey-boy. This description is a major insult to monkeys.
WALTER!!!!!!!!!!!
OMG LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!
You just made my DAY!!!!
steve jobs = norm abram
steve balmer = sears herder bob vila… or ty pennington
“Ballmer is a master salesman.”
hahahahahahaha…yup. Zune sales have gone through the roof. Vista too.
Anyway considering how argumentative Ballmer is, he is more appropriately labeled a master debater!
I would love to see this guy run a company. A real company not his silly Enderle whatever group. I bet if he ran a Hot Dog Stand he would fail at it.
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I’m not even sure Enderle’s comment on how Apple ignores research and uses focus groups is correct.
Apple is a research organization. So to say that Steve Jobs doesn’t use research is just ridiculous.
As far as focus groups, maybe Apple uses some, but I recall a Steve Jobs quote along the lines of “…If Henry Ford had asked the people what they wanted, they would’ve replied a faster horse.”
AAPL = Research & Innovation & Development. Something Enderle doesn’t understand.
The NeXt Apple campaign should tie in with the monkey office w/SB AS the Head Monkey Chief. All running Vista with the indian monkeys trying to save, config print and what not…. and Have a the Mac guy come in and knock them dead with some witty punch line…..MAN you could have a filed day with this one…
iJah420 out
1 MORE thing..
Have… Like a dummied up MicroHARD Logo in the back drop… All running Microhard Software on a Hell Computer with Microhard Doors installed on it…
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ijah420 thinks different
Ballmer is a Master Monopolist. They don’t sell Windows, they force it on the Users thru the hardware OEMs.
Rob Enderle is the prime reason that man should not be messing with gene splicing.