It is the biggest cloak-and-dagger company we’ve ever seen,

For the most part, the appeal of these devices is very generational. In many cases, as you move up in age, it becomes increasingly a male audience.

I wouldn’t go so far as to say WAP is dead. But the idea that an IT manager or Webmaster should have to learn WML to create a WAP site is hogwash, … The idea...

Every company I speak with is talking about it. The concern level is very high.

How do handset manufacturers get around screen size and entry method? Voice may be the way we are going to end up, but voice requires a lot of processing power,

Certainly the new iMac is a powerful offering, and Steve Jobs has pulled another rabbit out of his hat, … But their biggest problem will continue to be their ability to get parts.

Right now it is Microsoft against the EU, and that is a huge imbalance.

This industry tends to be a good 10 years ahead of general business in terms of critical network-capacity needs and capability, … will probably be passed relatively quickly, given [that] this need crisscrosses their industry.

These devices are quite costly, and they are complex, so they tend to be prone to failure. So far, nobody has figured how to make them at a low enough cost so that the average...

He’s still incredibly powerful. He’s not going to go unless he wants to.

The Celeron’s pretty hot, and makes for some hot little boxes, now that it’s hit 500,

It looks like a comprehensive package, but they’ve been working at this for some time, … Most of us hoped they would be at this point a year ago.

The enabling technologies are the strength of the back end and the competence of the wireless network,

Vista, because it was pretty much conceived during the toughest times for Microsoft with regards to malicious software, has the most protection in it compared to any of their platforms.

A major brand entering the space is always going to be problematic for anyone who is already there. People are likely to be there shopping and they could easily be pulled into a digital music...

[One issue is the Unix roots in Mac OS X, which is based on the BSD operating system.] This Unix component is working against them, … It’s basically Unix with an Apple front end, but...

They kept making promises they couldn’t keep, and their strategy was all over the map.

This gives Apple the biggest competitive advantage they’ve had in history from Microsoft.

If your company has a lot of desktops, you might buy AMD to protect your infrastructure,

This is incredibly stupid, … But, more Mac users have Palms, so it made sense for them (Microsoft) to go the Palm way.

The physics chip adds a level of reality in games we just haven’t been able to get.

Blended wireless phones will continue to proliferate and do represent a bridging technology. Eventually we will be making our calls consistently over the Internet, and the phone will simply become another wireless Internet appliance.

Never in my career have I seen the customer base so angry at Microsoft,

Big iron, no matter how you look at it — PBXs, servers, switches — it’s a conservative buy,

Audrey was one of the best implementations of what turned out to be a really bad idea, … It could be the poster child for this.

Once you start raising unfairness questions, and you’re the dominant player, then it would be very easy for somebody to use those arguments against you.

This is the emergence of the new Gateway. It’s critical for them that the market see them as a new and vibrant company, as opposed to the perception that followed them at the beginning of...

Windows 2000 will have problems with about 15 percent of [existing] machines,

You’ll actually see the operating system that people have been asking for years and are finally going to get. It should be more stable and more reliable. … The breaking-every-day part goes away with this...

[Investing during a downturn isn’t a new strategy, but it’s a bold maneuver nonetheless, given that TI isn’t exactly flying high right now. Its revenues for the first half of 2002 were down to $3.89...

There are a lot of tech companies in the Bay Area that are setting the pace. Apple is on a major upswing and Hewlett-Packard is doing well in printers and visual technologies, and giving Dell...

We’re seeing a partnership feeding frenzy.

It’s very critical to Apple that they get this .NET blessing, otherwise they’re going to get forced out of the corporate network.

Microsoft understands the back end and Palm understands the front end, and the two of them ”’ if they can work together ”’ they can do some incredible things,

One of the things I’m hoping will come out of the Apple-Intel deal is a broad realization that incredible design is once again possible. Over the years the hardware OEMs have consistently used Intel and...

Microsoft has entered as a full-fledged competitor. The (Windows Live) search product looks to be more advanced by a generation, and we’re going to have a leapfrog competition as the two firms try to out...

It’s better late than never. But their customer base is not going to forgive them for RIM turning them into cannon fodder during the process.

They are the only company that can come in on top of technology like cable boxes and routers that is already inside homes. Everyone else has to build from scratch.

In the near term this is not going to have much impact on Microsoft’s behavior. The biggest change is what other companies do with Microsoft,

Whenever you confuse the consumer, they defer purchases.

Because the litigation has become so much of what they are, the lawsuits tend to eclipse anything else they try to do. And if it goes bad for them with IBM, I doubt anything they...

The overseas market isn’t saturated like the U.S..

This is a potentially market-changing event. My sense is that this is going to increase Apple’s market share dramatically.

That’s a significant amount of money. I honestly believe that’s going to change a lot of minds in terms of providing programming for this medium.

I think something that’s developed from scratch will have a much better shot at taking on the desktop, as opposed to something that’s got the age behind it that Linux does.

[Still, no one’s ever done anything like this before, so we don’t know yet if it’s an improvement on existing indexes. With a statistical pool of nearly 15,000,] it’s hard to qualify the respondents, …...

It’s been languishing quite a bit and is reminiscent of the old IBM. As a company reaches a certain size, it loses its edge.

I would argue this is the first major step towards a subscription operating system.

Apple was losing a lot of bids,

Granted, it was fairly early. [But] we do remember that people were downloading things across remote servers across what became the Internet at that time,