...names in film CG animation. * iPod/iTunes: Originally released in 2001, the portable media device known as iPod didn’t seem like a likely candidate to kick off as large a change in the music industry as it did. It quickly got refined in future generations, and was the premier, even household, name in portable media players for many years. iTunes, released in 2003, similarly revolutionized the music industry with its easily-downloadable media library that was pretty much the only thing allowing non-Apple computers to sync with iPods. iTunes eventually killed big box record stores such as Tower Records and Virgin Media megastores. Some of Apple’s biggest failures included such products as: * Apple Lisa: Released in the mid-1980s, it was one of the first PCs that used a GUI and multitasking, which at the time of its release was cutting-edge. However, at $10,000 at first release, which in today’s money would buy you a nice brand-new car, it was marked as a failure in 1986 as Apple allowed trade-ins for the Mac Plus for $1500. Having said that Lisa was a failure, though, it is important to note that its...
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...XXXX Case Analysis 1- Apple Computer NETW-583 7/12/15 Apple’s greatest achievement could be defined not as its comeback from the precipice of bankruptcy but as the indelible mark it has left on the technological landscape and online business. Design is high on this list of legacy achievements. Apple products share a minimalist architecture that is unique, user friendly and instantly recognizable. Due to the degree of this branding by design, Apple has even taken Samsung to court over what they deemed to be infringement over the look and feel of their iPhone (Robertson, 2015). Apple has also influence how users interface technology by with touch sensitive surfaces. With the arrival of the first iPhone, a new standard of tapping and moving a fingertip along a screen to select menus, scroll through documents, or magnifying viewing space was introduced (Tynan, 2015). Apple rolled out a continuous stream of stream of products that created entire new IT categories of product lines with the iPhone, iPod, iPad, and are now continuing to incorporate their products into everyday accessories such as watches to further imbed themselves into the daily lives of the masses. Apple has also altered music by changing the way that it is bought and sold through the creation of iTunes. Hollywood was the next stop as Apple brought movies and TV shows to all manner of handheld devices and helped to assist with legitimizing streaming services (Tynan, 2015). Not all of Apple’s attempts have...
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...1) What were some of Apple’s biggest successes and failures? Describe why. Apple’s biggest success stories are not difficult to find. When Apple creates a product that succeeds, they do it in a big way. Take, for example, the iPhone. Not only does the iPhone have a die-hard following of loyal aficionados that continue to buy upgrades to their iPhones on a regular basis, but the iPhone changed the way the entire world looked at cell phones. Beating the first Android phone to the market by a more than a year (Parrish, May 3, 2012), the iPhone took us from phones that looked and functioned strictly like phones, to multi-touch devices that combined phones, cameras, games and MP3s into one device. Another big success for Apple was the iPod. Even though it wasn’t the first MP3 player out there, according to The Telegraph, “Apple's iPod arguably kick-started the digital music revolution.” due in part to the ability to create playlists and shuffle songs. It also integrates seamlessly with iTunes, another major success for Apple. iTunes allows you to purchase, categorize, store and update your music and iPod all from your own personal computer. Using iTunes enables consumers to obtain all of their music, app, television, movie and reading needs in one place—and is functional across technology platforms, allowing for more portability of a customer’s media. There are entire industries that base their product launches on the needs of iTunes, iPhone and iPod users—entertainment...
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...failures? Describe why. Apple Inc. has been in the USA and market place for long time since 1975 until today. Apply Inc. is the leader in technology market in the USA and in the world. In very beginning Steve Jobs and Steven Wozniak invented Apply I in 1975 and surprising the sale was pretty good. Then two years later the second, Apple II was designed and within a year the company has made $3 million. This is just the result that Apply always been working on creative and new things. Back in time, the Apple Inc. was not always big success. Couple years later Apple Inc. has design the pricey and unique product with the high price such as, Apple Lisa in 1983 or Macintosh TV in 1993. Both has ended up been the worse product due as a computer specs; it is lackluster and too expensive for Macintosh TV. Another flop is back in 1996 as network computer that can play game. The failures of Apple have been due to following; 1. Pricey Products 2. Poor marketing efforts 3. Too ambitious products The following products could be considered success for Apple; 1. IPod is one of the Apple’s biggest successes, it has completely changed the music industry and we can even say it has done a revolution in the technology innovation. 2. IPhone is the biggest success in my opinion since it is affordable, very popular and useful for everyone compare to other products Apple released. Created January 2007. 3. The Apple II 4. IPod 5. ITunes Apple Reinvented success by following...
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...technology. Apple is a success story that uses creativity to produce new and innovative products. Failure is not bad as long as lessons are learned and the same mistakes don’t continue to occur producing failed products. Apple follows business rules and principles that have lead them to the point in the business world today as a leading business corporation within the innovative, always changing, technological business. Chris Morrison, with CBS Money watch points out the four most important principles that Apple follows. These principles are 1. Don’t Follow Your Customers; Lead Them 2. Temper Engineering With Art 3. Focus on the Few to Sell to the Many 4. Be Your Own Toughest Critic Other companies and businesses could follow similar principles to stay on top of the ever changing technological advances. These advances are being made based on the demands and needs of consumers. We have become very dependent upon technology to function day to day and are always looking for new technology that may make help life less hectic. Apple has been able to take technology to the next level providing new products for the customer that may be unthinkable to the consumer prior to seeing and reviewing the new item. The changes and advances in technology is driven by our culture today. No one wants to wait days for mail for something when with the help of technology can be completed and on its way to the recipient within minutes of the beginning process. As Apple was able to...
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...1. What were some of Apple’s biggest successes and failures? Describe why. iTunes was announced in January 2001 as an all-in-one digital music program. iTunes immediately made an impact on a dying music industry as it brought a different approach to how consumers purchase music. The music consumer industry had been going through a change in how music was being used in terms of devices. Consumers were utilizing digital technology devices to download songs instead of using CD's. iTunes was a way for consumers to personalize their music experience within a downloadable software application. iTunes allows users to download MP3, use Internet Radio, write CD's and purchase songs from their favorite artists at a low cost of $.99. iTunes announcement also sparked the cloud revolution. Apple's iOS App Store was launched in July 2008 as a tool for consumers to use to download applications for their smart phones or smart devices. Apple announced a milestone in July 2011 in that it had reached it 15 billionth download of more than 500,000 applications. The App Store has become the cornerstone of the iPhones success. The App Stores success is driving the markets in that it’s creating new markets for software developers. Their biggest success of Apple is bringing back the late Steve Jobs. Without Jobs, Apple would be a thing of the past. Jobs came back to Apple in July 1997 as the interim CEO after Apple had posted a $1 billion loss in revenues and stock was trading at...
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...Case Case Study #1 Apple Inc. Dixie Corbin MGMT 670 Fall 2013 What does a competitive strength assessment reveal about Apple's computer business as compared to the leaders in personal computer industry? Use the methodology in Table 4.2 to support your answer. Does it appear that the company's competitive positions in the media players and smartphones are stronger or weaker than its position in computers? Table 4.1 is in Chapter 4, page 65; Table 4.2 is the SWOT analysis, page 71. Apple Inc. has provided many innovative and creative products to consumers over the years. Many industry analysts want to know if Apple can sustain its growth and defend against new competitive threats. Apple lost their CEO Steve Jobs in 2011 to health issues. They were still able to stay ahead of the competition with impressive growth into 2012. “The company set record quarterly revenues and profits during its second quarter of 2012, which resulted in its stock price catapulting to a level that made it the world’s most valuable company as measured by its market capitalization.” (Gamble & Marino, 2012) Even with the loss of Steve Jobs, Apple was able to continue to provide innovative products such as the iPhone, iPad and iPod. During Job’s absence Tim Cook was able to perform successfully and was eventually appointed Job’s successor as Apple’s CEO. With a new CEO, Apple faced many difficulties including being forced to “work creatively and expeditiously to sustain the company’s success...
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...Apple's biggest successes and failures? Describe why. I believe Apple's biggest success was the beginning or Apple's initial offer Apple I in 1976, this was mostly a prototype since there where only around 200 Apple I computers produced; they were all hand-built by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. While Steve Jobs handled the distribution and marketing of the Apple I, he was responsible for devising clever advertising tag-line: "Byte into an Apple." That was the beginning of Apple's innovating strategy, first out the door with the interactive graphical microcomputer, that Steve Jobs used to build upon, trough successes and failures. To Steve Wozniak it was about the product, reducing cost, simplicity, etc., but to Steve Jobs it was about to embark on building Apple computer corporation, a culture, a vision, at each reiteration he would discover a new principle of innovation, but I believe he would not truly understand that, until some twenty four plus years later, it will be interesting to see whether Tim Cook the new COO of Apple, keeps Apple on course, on the vision. Now, let's look at some of Apple's important success, like Mac OS X, server version was introduced in 1999, while the desktop version was introduced in 2001. Then there was iTunes, this was the BIG one, truly a innovative idea that would put Apple over the top (regardless that Apple is proprietary in nature), as one of the innovating companies, along with the iPod, also introduced in 2001, the iPod offered consumers...
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...INTRODUCTION TO THE CORPORATE ANNUAL REPORT: A BUSINESS APPLICATION 2cd edition Complete the following before you submit your assignment. This step is required to validate your compliance with sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act. 1. Remove the front cover of the workbook and identify: * Name: Oskar Diaz de Leon _. * Term: Spring1 2010 . * Company: Apple Computer Inc (AAPL) _ . * Instructor: Natasha Bell-Scott _ . 2. Print out your completed electronic template. 3. Attach the following: * This front cover (completed) * Electronic solution template * Company annual report Chapter 1 - Introduction * Chapter 1: Select a Company and Gather Documents—Question 1Fill in the page numbers on the annual report where the following are located. | Required information for this workbook project. | Page No. | Required information for this workbook project. | Page No. | Financial Highlights (Not absolutely necessary, but very common in annual reports.) | 36 | Statement of Cash Flows | 59 | Chairman’s Message (President’s, CEO’s or other top official’s message or letter to the shareholders) | 36 | Notes to Financial Statements | 60 | Management’s Discussion and Analysis (MD&A) | 36 | Report...
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...Business Analysis Part 1: Apple, Inc. Apple is a highly innovated business that entered the business world making computers back in the 1980s. They ventured out in the 2000s making non-PC devices and by the spring of 2010 had a market capitalization of $220 billion dollars. As a mutual fund manager, I have performed a SWOT analysis to determine whether or not to invest in this company. I will identify internal and external stakeholders, evaluate their needs and see how the organization measures up when it comes to satisfying those needs. Strengths Apple Inc. has been ranked number one on Fortune Magazine’s Most Admired list for the fourth year in a row according to CNNMoney (DuBois, 2011). The "The American Customer Satisfaction Index" (2012) website shows Apple with a score of 87 out of 100 points on a scale of 0-100 at the national level, this was a 13% increase from the first year in 1995. Personal Computers and HP both came in second with a score of 78 out of 100. Apple has intensive employee training in order to provide exemplementry customer service. They focus on understanding what the customer needs and provide a solution, which may be their key to innovating new products. They have an extensive beautifully designed product line that shares functionality. The Apple trademark, apple with a piece missing illuminates when the computer is on which makes it stand out as an apple product. There is a light under the keyboard making it easy to type in the...
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...www.fmfi-journal.org Focusing on Modern Food Industry (FMFI) Volume 2 Issue 4, November 2013 Optimization of Pomace and Banana Peel Fermentation for Production of Single Cell Oil A. Kulkarni*1, A. Singh2, B.K Kumbhar3, M. Sahgal4 Department of Post Harvest Process & Food Engineering, College of Technology, GB Pant University of Agri & Technology, Pantnagar 263 145 U.S Nagar, Uttarakhand, INDIA 2 corresponding author e-mail: asingh3@gmail.com Abstract Present study was carried out to obtain single cell oil using fermented apple pomace and banana peel. The variables selected for the final experiments were levels of pH (3.0, 4.0 and 5.0), fermentation time (24, 48 and 72 hrs) and inoculum level (0.8, 1.0 and 1.2 ml). Designed experiments were conducted randomly to reveal the effect of these variables on pH, sugar utilization and single cell oil yield. Fermentation of apple pomace (50%) with banana peel (50%) resulted in maximum single cell oil production (5.87%) by using R. minuta. Statistical analysis resulted in the optimum conditions (pH 3.0, fermentation time 56.4 hrs and inoculum level 1.12 ml) for maximum single cell oil production. The model F- value was found to be highly significant at 1% level of significance in case of pH, utilized sugar and single cell oil yield. Hence, second order model could be fitted to predict all the dependent parameters. Key words Single Cell Oil; Fermentation; Pomace; Agro Waste Utilization Introduction ...
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...FILL IN THE BLANKS 1) Rohan and Sania are going out with their . 2) We will come to the . every week. 3) Then you can the book. 4) Three Little Kittens their mittens. 5) Then you shall have no . 6) Three little kittens found their . 7) Now you may the pie. 8) Priya Liked . 9) Priya put her hand in the .of sweets. 10) Priya hand was . in the jar. 11) smiled at Priya . 12) Priya decided to have at a time. 13) Sania ride her bicycle. 14) There was a in there front. 15) Sania put her in the basket. 16) Sania and Rohan were their bicycle. 17) Rohan and Sania went to the . 18) He wanted to build a . 19) The Pig was . 20) I will gather some . 21) The wolf became very . 22) The wolf hurt his . 23) The little pigs . 24) We are going to a . 25) I want to buy ...
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...Grade 5 Math STAAR Student Workbook © Forde-Ferrier, L.L.C. Page 1 Table of Contents STAAR Reporting Category 1: Numbers, Operations, and Quantitative Reasoning TEKS 5.1(A) Read, Write, Compare, and Order Whole Numbers (Supporting) TEKS5.1(B) Read, Write, Compare, and Order Decimals (Supporting) TEKS 5.2(A) Generate Equivalent Fractions (Readiness) TEKS 5.2(B) Generate Mixed Numbers and Improper Fractions (Supporting) TEKS 5.2(C) Comparing Fractions (Readiness) TEKS 5.2(D) Relate Fractions to Decimals (Supporting) TEKS 5.3(A-C) Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division (Readiness) TEKS 5.3(D) Identify Common Factors of a Set of Whole Numbers (Supporting) TEKS 5.3(E) Addition and Subtraction of Fractions (Supporting) TEKS 5.4(A) Estimation (Supporting) STAAR Reporting Category 2: Patterns, Relationships, and Algebraic Thinking TEKS 5.5(A) Relationship of Data (Readiness) TEKS 5.5(B) Identify Prime and Composite Numbers (Supporting) TEKS 5.6(A) Solution Sentences (Supporting) STAAR Reporting Category 3: Geometry and Spatial Reasoning TEKS 5.7(A) Geometric Properties (Supporting) TEKS 5.8(A and B) Transformations (5.8A Readiness/5.8B Supporting) TEKS 5.9(A) Locate and Name Points on a Coordinate Grid (Supporting) STAAR Reporting Category 4: Measurement TEKS 5.10(A) Perform Simple Conversions (Supporting) TEKS 5.10(B) Formulas for Perimeter, Area, and Volume (Supporting) TEKS 5.10(C) Length, Perimeter, Area, and Volume (Readiness) TEKS 5.11(A) Changes in Temperature...
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...Module for grade 5 * Place Value * Ordering decimal numbers * Computations * Fractions, decimals, and percents * Negative and positive integers I. Place Value Numbers, such as 495,784, have six digits. Each digit is a different place value. The first digit is called the hundred thousands' place. It tells you how many sets of one hundred thousand are in the number. The number 495,784 has four hundred thousands. The second digit is the ten thousands' place. In this number there are nine ten thousands in addition to the four hundred thousands. The third digit is the one thousands' place which is five in this example. Therefore there are four sets of one hundred thousand, nine sets of ten thousand, and five sets of one thousand in the number 495,784. The fourth digit is called the hundreds' place. It tells how many sets of one hundred are in the number. The number 495,784 has seven hundreds in addition to the thousands. The next digit is the tens' place. This number has are eight tens in addition to the four hundred thousands, nine ten thousands, five thousands and seven hundreds. The last or right digit is the ones' place which is four in this example. Therefore there are four sets of one hundred thousand, nine sets of ten thousand, five sets of one thousand, seven sets of one hundred, eight sets of ten, and four ones in the number 495,784 A. Place Value Extended Forms There are 4 sets of one hundred thousand, 9 sets of...
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