“Right now, the tablet market, which is beginning to cannibalize the PC market, is looking far more like the iPod market — including Apple’s dominance of it. Currently Apple is shipping at a rate of around 20 million a year and selling out, while the entire aggregation of competitors is shipping less than 5 million, with much of the product unsold,” Rob Enderle writes for TechNewsWorld.
“There is this debate going on in the analyst community with most arguing that the tablet market is like the PC market was, and Apple will once again be overwhelmed — in this case largely by Google and Android,” Enderle writes. “But a few of us, mostly me, are arguing that it is behaving much more like the iPod market, and Apple will emerge preeminent unless something big changes.”
MacDailyNews Take: Yeah, mostly you. Pfft.
Enderle writes, “Making this personal, my brother just asked for a tablet for his birthday. He didn’t care what kind, but based on his spec, only the iPad will meet his needs. Now when I can’t buy a product for someone who doesn’t even like Apple that isn’t an Apple product, we have an iPod market.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: By SteveJack: Yes, the fact that Enderle basically agrees with me is not only nauseating, but – for a fleeting second – actually made me reassess… Nope, I’m still right. Enderle has either been reading MacDailyNews for quite some time or the end is nigh.
He’s still an idiot, even if he got this one right.
Stopped clock, blind squirrel etc etc….
Yeah, MDN…stop quoting this gasbag!
Enderle getting something right? Ha!
They’ll find a kill bin Laden before that ever happens…. oh, wait a tic…
It’s the final days.
There’s no other explanation. 0.o
Welcome to the ‘duh’
Crazy people have been known to spout something sort of correct, occasionally.
Like a million monkeys banging away on typewriters eventually producing Shakespeare?
…. and 5 monkeys banging away at typewriters quickly producing Enderle
Rob Enderle has been struck by a light on his way to Cupertino. Transformed, elevated; apotheosis. Sorry Guy, Rob Enderle is now the first among the Mac faithful!
Well he would be really dumb if he stuck with Micro$oft.
He is simply siding with the winners. Doesnt make him smart, just hungry.
Derek, yes he really is that dumb. If you read the article, its like a wistful, … I wish this were not true….. Maybe Intel or someone can still kill Apple. kind of article.
He did not once, mention the OS. Ease of use?? just specks. Just a thought,
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So his brother wants a tablet but doesn’t care what kind. He must lack the same intelligence gene as Rob.
Kind of sounds like those Miller Lite commercials……yeah give me a beer but I don’t care about taste………
The end is nigh … for Micro$oft anyway.
Product of the Week: Lenovo Cloud Ready Client — Would someone PLEASE explain to me exactly what this is? I read Robbie’s explanation three times and I am still clueless. Thank you in advance.
What prompted Mr Enderles brother to ask for a “tablet” anyway? I’ll bet he actually asked for an iPad and Mr E, like all poor journalists, rearranged the facts to suit his story.
Once again, can the iPad “cannibalize” anything other than Apple products?
Cannibals ate missionaries, and people from unrelated tribes. So, it should be applicable.
Did they use a dry rub? Or baste them a lot? Most of the missionaries I know would have been pretty noncomestible without a lot of sauce…
Hey, I’ve got some sauce in the cupboard – Jack Daniels, Old Crow, The Glenlivet, Ronrico…
You’re right. iPad might alter it, compete with it, eat its lunch, or devour it, but it does not “cannibalize the PC market.”
The reference to cannibalism would mean eating ones’ own kind, or species… and iPads and PCs aren’t of the same species. Nowhere in the DNA is it the same, so more likely I’d have used the term “prey,” such as “beginning to prey on the PC market.
The end is nigh. Or more like it, the Knights who say NI
His brother’s spec: “It needs to do something.”
Ergo, the iPad!
A broken clock is correct twice a day.
Error alert!!! Only once if a 24-hour clock. 😉
flying pig in hell freezing over ?
Gee, even Enderle gets it. One more left to go but I’m pessimistic. The fat bastard will NEVER get it.
I have a feeling Enderlie threw away his Dell streak and bought an iPad 2.
Welcome to the real world Rob. How’s the Misses, how’s the dog?
What do you call someone who jumps on the bandwagon kidnaps the brass section and blows his own trumpet expecting everyone to give him a standing ovation? The term probably hasn’t been invented yet.
Herb Alpert?
LOL
Politician
they are very worried. The SHYSTERS have about 10 weeks left to manipulate apple stock price. In 10 weeks, apple reports current Q. The SHYSTERS are probably hoping for a big drop in iPhone sales but they fear an iPad figure enough to compensate the drop. If the iPhone unit sales drop is huge and no announcement of anew iPhone then these SHYSTERS will have a few of weeks more of FUD. Enderle, does not want to appear completely stoopid. He is hedging here hoping he does not become irrelevant.
Wow.. The Enderle Group is still going… He must have to find some pretty good ‘doobage’ to still be on the MS gravy train
Enderle once a month takes his meds. Must have been that day.
Enderle is the leading anti-Apple contrarian in a commode full of retarded hit-whores. His analyses make as much sense as the lyrics of a Beck song and his blind allegiance to Windoz guarantee he’s never right.
Rob: the fact that you can eke out a living being so out-of-touch is evidence that people are getting stupider as a species.
http://themacadvocate.com/2009/05/04/douchebag-row-my-tribute-to-tech%E2%80%99s-finest/
More likely Rob’s dog found out how to use the iPad, and the smarter member of the Enderle Group voted to have Rob write the article.
“But a few of us, mostly me”
Wow, not only delusional, but also arrogant.
Rob Enderle is an idiot.
I suspect the “Enderle Group” got this one right because his dog, who makes up 1/3 of the “Group,” is putting his paw down and demanding to be heard.
Maybe Enderle should read todays James Kendrick’s column at ZDNet. Kendrick blames the failure of other tablets on consumers not “getting it”… because tablets makers aren’t marketing them properly.
Do these guys all drink from the same dumb fountain?