...upside the head.

In the article, he says, "Recent surveys indicate demand for Apple's existing products is dropping like a rock as a result" [of Apple's pre-announcing the x86 transition].

Yeah, right. The surveys I've read about say they haven't seen any decrease, but point out that it's still too early to call it, one way or the other. I'd like to see him disclose which surveys these were (and which company paid for them).

The people who are buying Macs right now because they're sick of Windows and all its inherent problems don't care what CPU is driving their new iMac/mini/whatever. I'd bet the vast majority of them don't even know that Apple is switching to Intel processors.

Looks like Enderle wants the "Supreme FUDmeister" torch passed in his direction, now that Dvorak seems to have mellowed.

~Philly

why does MacNN always post his stuff?

Read the article.

Yes, it's awful and not backed up by anything concrete. Yes, he maligns the Mac (no news there). But if you read between the lines, this guy is worried. Near the end he openly says he's concerned that MS may be making mistakes, and admits they've lost their luster. That's actually his main point. His secondary point is that it probably won't make a big difference. Along the way he takes a dig at Apple, and of course, that guarantees hits to his page.

If anything, this tells me that the MS camp is indeed worried.

Hello? MacNN posts his stuff because it's news about Apple. This is the Mac News Network. Like it or not, what Enderle says is read and acted upon by analysts and investors. MacNN is keeping us informed about the environment out there.

You're right, the shill is sweating. MS has near zero credibility these days (on so MANY levels) and generates near zero excitement in the market place. Oh, a new game box!

What do we ever hear about Microsoft? They've settled such and such lawsuit. There's a new wave of security breaches. Their next OS is shedding features like a hot-air balloon dumping ballast to stay afloat, just so they can ship it... sometime! ANY time! AND will be more than 2 years late. (It's December of 2006, so it may as well be January of 2007.) AND they've more or less announced that they'll be copying Mac OS X Tiger as much as possible.

It sure sounds like a company in trouble.

How MANY programmers work for Microsoft and they can't ship a product anywhere NEAR on time?

People are SICK of Microsoft. (And we hear A LOT of that in the press lately, too.) Even I.T. dweebs are tired of dealing it... now THAT aught to make Ballmer sweat even more than usual, since IT departments have been ramming Windows down people's throats for years and keeping MS afloat, too.

So, Enderle the Clown knows it and has to take cheap shots at Linux and Apple? Poor ignorant b******!

clearly Enderle believes winblows users are suckers and idiots. If VISTA sucks (thanks for the acronym, ROTFLMAO), well people will just live with it (like they have all the other c*** that Microsoft throws over the wall).

Is this guy EVER right?

s/pundit/dimwit/g

There probably isn't much lost in translation here.

Don't fall for this, he's just trying to boost the hits to his site. These people know that if they kick Apple, the faithful will mob the site to tell them how wrong they are. I just ignore them.

First, MacNN posts this stuff because it boosts traffic at their site. h***, there's more postings on this than any other subject today, so that also indicates that more people are interested in this than you might think. (Its like asking why the TV news kept showing the OJ and MJ trials. Well, they wouldn't if we didn't keep turning it on and all...).

Second, don't malign this Oracle of the computer scene. Sure, he's laid a couple of eggs, but he did predict Apple moving to Intel. OK, so he predicted it for like 2003, but that's not the point.

Answer: He's self-employed!

"Rob Enderle, a TechNewsWorld columnist, is the Principal Analyst for the Enderle Group, a consultancy that focuses on personal technology products and trends."

Enderle's opinion nearly guarantees that Vista will be a dud, and that Leopard will leap ahead, with APple increasing their marketshare significantly.

Agreed with one poster, I find it stupefying how this guy keeps his job, considering that he is not only nearly always wrong, but this means that his investors ae, in turn, losing massive amounts of money based on his bad analysis...

ZinkDifferent

Another Dvorak wanta be

Why did this even make it into MacNN RSS feeds? This columnist should have been completely ignored and eventually fired for decreasing the readership of his newspaper. Blatant disregard for the facts....

I'll bet he's heavily invested (as are his clients) in MSFT - and hating the past couple of years. Gosh, Rob - care to put your last two years of MSFT up against the same amount of original dollars in the past two years of AAPL? Didn't think so.

No point in reading any further, only ignorance beyond that point.