Tim Bajarin Quotations

makes Palm a worthy competitor in enterprise accounts.

I don't believe for a second that Jobs wants to be a media mogul as much as he is a technology visionary. I find that idea out in left field.

From the video, it looks like it's more of a mainstream Windows hand-held system as opposed to one dedicated to games or any specific application.

From the technology side, we look at broadband as an important driver for next-generation processors, memory, servers, screen technology -- basically everything.

Steve's first love is technology. He has always believed that technology has the ability to change the world.

PC companies do not want to have more than six weeks of inventory, and most of them try to live within three- and four-week turns, ... We're hearing about inventory build-ups in some companies that are as much as 13 weeks.

It has potential. If you can tie a quick payment concept to the cell phone and know it's secure and protected, it absolutely becomes a viable platform for digital payments. But the most important thing is to build a secure system that is impenetrable.

I think peer-to-peer technologies are starting to become more accepted. Video is a very important part of the Internet and with Internet distribution, they're definitely on the right path. The important factor is to get the content out there, which helps to curb piracy.

I would not be surprised if that is part of the real goal.

Microsoft's business model is not to create branded hardware. They're a software company. Normally, when they put these kinds of devices together, they're reference designs.

While Apple has done the best job to date, not everybody is ready to just throw in with Apple. Nor are they willing to do so with Microsoft and their store or Real and their store. In some cases, they'd like to do without the middleman and sell direct to customers.

What we really are desperate for is next-generation content.

The fact that they have a loss is not good. It's not as bad as in the past, but it continues to be a concern.

We're moving toward an Internet economy. Whether people understand it or not, we're moving to a place where as much as 50 percent of all our purchases will be done over the Internet in the next five years.

We're moving into an exciting new phase of personal computing, ... What an Internet appliance is being defined as today is anything that connects to the Internet that isn't a PC.

The Shuffle has been a pretty big hit. There's a perception that a 1-gigabyte player is a bit small, and so Apple has to be looking at a higher-density flash-based player. But it's really hard to anticipate Apple's actions. They may be using all this flash memory for something else.

The simplest way to deal with this is to get the distribution deal done like he has done in the past.

We think that there could be a spike, but the problem is that the movement toward using Windows XP as a catalyst for consumers, and more importantly, businesses, doesn't happen overnight.

We think the biggest boost will come with the release of Whistler in the third quarter, which potentially could drive significant sales if Microsoft is effective in pushing the streaming media component of that,

Bottom line, this is very good news for BlackBerry users. It means their service will continue, and it allows RIM to continue going after corporate business.

While he was their leader, he had an incredible team around him and has seemed to be grooming them for the time when he would step down. Although it is a loss, I think he has left Apple very capable of carrying their software vision forward and they should not really miss a beat.

Dell is notorious for taking a wait-and-see approach, and then, if something catches on, coming in and dominating it.

As long as Jobs is at the helm, I think they will continue pushing the innovation envelope. He actually believes technology can change the world. I don't see him changing that.

Schwartz is a no-nonsense type of manager and is really high on results. There's no question that he would cut jobs, but it would probably be wrong to characterize him as a wholesale hatchet man. I think his main priority is to right the ship.

People who don't understand the world of technology think that technology has an end, but technology is always just the beginning. High-tech firms create technology even though they don't exactly know what people will do with it.

There's no question this is going directly after the BlackBerry user.

This time, they really made the interface simpler.

The only thing we can expect is that Apple will continue to innovate and surprise.

This gives Apple a brighter future. I think the Intel chip is going to get consumers' attention.

If you're a consumer and you decided to wait out the Christmas season, you're going to get some great buys from a price standpoint very shortly.

If you had really good content that was done well and could be seen well on a small screen, you could find a legitimate audience. The issue continues to be more of one that is struggling to figure out exactly what people will want, and what they will pay for it.

The bargain prices you get in the sub-$1,000 PC category are exceptional. A new user is going to be much more easily swayed to the IBM world than they are to the Mac world.

That is the biggest theme and shift, where every device is connected and always on. If devices are connected all the time, it changes the way you design a product.

It's not an accident. This is something Apple works at. Apple has the longest history of doing this.

Consumers buy on cost, and while you can potentially upgrade them to a bigger hard drive or perhaps one with a bigger screen, you're going into new territory with pink or yellow or blue.

Every TV set, set-top box, cell phone will have an Internet connection. If every device is connected to the Internet, it requires a different way of thinking about how to create products and how consumers use products.

It has turned them into worthy competitors of major PC vendors.

His biggest impact will be to help guide Disney into the digital age and be the mediator of this major media company's content to the world of next-generation digital content delivery.

Apple is on more people's radar now that the company is a major force. And these are all growing pains.

Apple is taking steps to move their brand to other rooms beyond just the Mac. It's no longer just sitting in the den.

Apple will continue to be a force in portable music and video, and desktop innovation.

Anybody that's coming into the market at this point really has a tough road ahead of them.

The move to Intel is critical to Apple's future because it allows (the company) to attract the hard-core PC crowd. If they show they can run applications two or three or four times faster, they will get a lot of attention.

All the vendors are trying to differentiate on design. Clean industrial design has become a critical success factor.

The first 25 years of the tech era was to bring digital technologies to businesses and millions of personal computers. The next 25 years will be focused on bringing digital technologies to billions of consumer devices.

This hits retailers, and it hits PC makers that were looking toward Vista for a surge in consumer PC sales at the end of the year.

It's the only company that can provide a PC platform that can run Windows and the Mac. It plays well into their switch campaign. They are trying to more aggressively go after those who have been on the fence.

It's a runaway hit, ... Apple has created by far the neatest looking, easiest to use product, which has become a status symbol.

It's a runaway hit. Apple has created by far the neatest looking, easiest to use product, which has become a status symbol.

It makes the Mac the most versatile computer on the market.

There's a lot of potential for it in the upper end of the consumer segment and even the broader consumer market. For this to get the most attention, they've got to get it to a price point of under $500.

I don't think Apple wants to emulate Sony. I don't think they want to do video cameras. I don't think they want to do TVs. They are rounding out the Mac consumer ecosystem. I think they will be extremely cautious about what they brand as an Apple product.

I don't see it as a threat at all to Apple's music empire.

Apple has struck a cultural nerve, especially with Generation X and Gen Y, while Windows and PC are viewed in essence as 'My parents' computer'.

Although the rumors are of Apple doing an iWatch, I think that design idea is actually too limited.

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