Articles by Rob Enderle

I'm writing this just before New Year's Day, and like many of you, I'm hoping to reach my one remaining goal for 2020, which is to be alive in 2021. I'm looking forward to putting 2020 behind me, and while the pandemic has been painful, it has caused things to accelerate in several areas impressively rapidly. Two of those areas are robotics and artificial intelligence, which we'll see adapted broadly this decade, with a considerable bump in 2021...

Much of my time these last few weeks has been spent looking at schools and companies that tried and often failed to pivot to remote work and education One of the biggest problems has been connectivity. Our infrastructure just wasn't set up to suddenly shift massive amounts of traffic from companies to homes. Exacerbating this has been cable networ...

Every year I look back at all of the Products of the Week I've selected during the year and pick the one that made the most significant impression on me to crown the Product of the Year This year the election and pandemic kept our lives pretty messed up, and to keep working we relied heavily on our laptops, cloud services, networking gear, and our ...

Qualcomm recently took an in-depth look back at the history of the mobile phone, which it was mostly responsible for creating. This turned out to be a personal retrospect because my family owned an electronics company in the 1960s, which was when I used my first mobile phone in my father's Studebaker Avanti At the time, I thought it was the most am...

Qualcomm last week launched its Snapdragon 888 platform which will show up in premium phones next year -- and this promises to take the high-end of Android smartphones to levels of performance they've never seen before While Qualcomm provided critical help to Apple by enabling the company to bring its first iPhone to market, Apple broke up with Qua...

Today is Cyber Monday, which doesn't mean as much this year because the related sales have been going on for much of November as retailers try to milk every available dollar they can. However, like you, I'm doing a lot of shopping, both for others (yes, I'm going to cheat and mostly give Amazon gift cards but some gifts) and myself Since this enti...

This month we decided to retire my wife's 2008 Infiniti FX35 and find something else. This swap isn't an easy task because her SUV has a Stillen Stage 2 supercharger in it (a video of the car is here), so we wanted something green and quick Electrics were left out of the equation because we already have an electric Jaguar I-Pace, and there is a sev...

Last week Apple announced a partial pivot away from x86 to ARM with one of those claims so outrageous it could have only come from Apple. The company claimed its new ARM-based PCs would outperform 98 percent of those already in the market. No proof points, no material examples, no listed benchmarks. Just "trust us," this processor optimized for s...

Healthcare is a mess, not just here in the U.S., but in most countries. Some of the biggest problems in this data-rich era are the lack of interoperability and fact-based advice. Two companies that stand out as aggressively trying to fix this are IBM and Microsoft. IBM focused its Watson AI on providing medical professionals with diagnostic tool...

I'd typically argue that having a significant event or announcement anywhere near an election is foolish. Well, four vendors decided to prove me wrong by having events and making announcements that have a material impact that, at times, goes well beyond the technology market and the U.S Even though this was unintentional, each vendor's announcemen...

Dell World was last week, and it sure was different this year because it was done virtually. One of the most interesting parts of Dell World is the session on the future. In past years they surfaced the coming of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the coming wave of robotics This year, they spoke on a new branch of engineering that is solely AI-f...

This subject is one of those things that drives me nuts. We could build homes that stand up to hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, and other natural and human-made disasters. We could build cars that are lighter and more fuel-efficient Like the opening for the old TV show, "The Six Million Dollar Man," we have the technology. So why don't we use it? T...

Given the pandemic, we are likely to have a new record for online shopping this year. The combination of concerns about COVID-19 and the continued shut down of brick and mortar stores, particularly big-box stores, will push a record number of us to shop online. In anticipation of this move, Microsoft has aggressively updated its new Chromium ver...

The benefit of video conferencing, particularly during this COVID-19 pandemic, is not having to leave home. Unless you have people bringing the virus into your house, the odds of catching the virus fall if you can cut down on going to the office or school and stay off of planes and public transportation But even with the best tools, you still don't...

I've been following Microsoft since before it was called Microsoft. This is because back in the 1970s, I was approached to go to work for the company but had already taken another job and never took the interview For most of my life, I'd viewed Microsoft as my road not traveled, and then in 1995, I became the operating system analyst covering the W...

Nvidia last week announced they are buying Arm for US$40 billion -- to be met through a combination of Nvidia shares and cash. This will result in some exciting changes. It is interesting to realize that had Steve Jobs lived; it likely would have been Apple attempting to buy Arm rather than Nvidia. Steve and Tim Cook were on the same page when it...

I've been using the Microsoft Surface Duo for over a week now, and it is my new favorite smartphone Optimized more for business than for consumer use, it isn't for everyone. But for the way I use my smartphone, it is a better device for me. Let me walk you through why, and we'll close with my product of the week -- the new Nvidia RTX 30 card that m...

Last week had presentations from three of the significant processor companies, each planning to revolutionize the PC market. This revolution was an immense change from just a couple of years ago when everyone and their brother seemed to think that PCs were dead One of the few positive impacts of this pandemic is that PCs have nearly sold out everyw...

Last week was the 25th anniversary of the biggest and most critical launch in computing history. Steve Jobs was on a forced hiatus after being fired from Apple, and that platform wasn't doing well. OS/2 the supposed successor to DOS/Windows, wasn't selling well either, and DOS/Windows was way out-of-date and aging poorly. Then Windows 95 was pro...

One of the enormous changes coming to us that has accelerated significantly of late is drone delivery, which promises to provide more speedy fulfillment of online orders. First for small items like meals or medicines, both of which are critical during the pandemic, and eventually for larger items -- and even people Still, drone delivery has a few c...