...Apple started in 1976 as a computer company. In the last decade, however, Apple has expanded into a very innovative company that specializes in much more than just computers. Apple has few successes and failures when come to their products. Apple’s successful products are Imac, Iphone, Itunes and macbook. Imac was first introduced back in 1998 and it was the first computer that did not need CPU tower to operate. This is because they put all the hardware (motherboard, RAM, video card, etc) into the monitor so that people can save spaces. Until now, Imac is one of the best selling computers in Apple store. When Iphone first came out, it was considered as one of the best cell phone that anyone ever created. It was so popular because of their design, phone applications, and touch screen capability. Itunes is a media player and online store run by Apple. Itunes is the place to get movies, music, mobile apps, ringtones, audio books and podcasts in one place. Since its release in 2001, iTunes has become a near standard application for most computer users, and has greatly fueled the digital media revolution. Macbook is known for faster processors, better graphics and tons of innovation. Macbook was first released in May 2006, and it is Apple’s best selling computer and is one of the best-selling laptops period. Every revision brings new features and new design motifs. (Apple’s Biggest Successes and Failures, 2010) According to Apple’s Worst Products and Biggest Failures (2009), some...
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... Largely considered the world’s most valuable and influential company, Apple has had a number of huge successes since its 1977 launch, including the Apple II, iMac iPod, iPhone, iPad, and iTunes. The What were some of the industry factors that influenced RIM? Largely considered the world’s most valuable and influential company, Apple has had a number of huge successes since its 1977 launch, including the Apple II, iMac iPod, iPhone, iPad, and iTunes. The Apply as many TCOs as you can to the RIM. Largely considered the world’s most valuable and influential company, Apple has had a number of huge successes since its 1977 launch, including the Apple II, iMac iPod, iPhone, iPad, and iTunes. The References Editorial Staff. (2012). Four ways Apple has changed under Tim Cook. By The Week. Available at: http://theweek.com/article/index/228478/four-ways-apple-has-changed-under-tim-cook Farber, Dan. (2013). Apple's Tim Cook seeks the 'mother of all opportunities'. Available at: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57566068-37/apples-tim-cook-seeks-the-mother-of-all-opportunities/?amp. Accessed on: July 9th, 2013 Lashinsky, Adam. (2012). How Tim Cook is changing Apple. CNN Money. Available at: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/05/24/apple-tim-cook-ceo/ Buysight, Inc. (2010). Apple's Biggest Successes and Failures. Available at: http://www.buysight.com/blog/2010/01/26/apples-biggest-successes-and-failures/. Accessed on:...
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...Successes: Some of Apple’s biggest successes were Apple’s creating the first Intel chip equipped for its Macintosh computers and a few new software packages. Along with the iPod and iTunes which would not have had nearly as much impact if they hadn’t been matched with iTunes and App Exchange. A major key to Apple’s continued success is its ability to keep pushing the envelope in the areas of innovation. Three areas that Apple’s Scott Anthony, managing director, says contribute to their decade of success, “don’t focus on building beautiful products, think in terms of platforms and pipelines, and take a portfolio approach.” Failures: Some of their failures include the Mac Portable computer the Newton-handheld computer, released to early, before world was ready. Another drawback some consumers feel is the setting up of elitist or exclusive boundary or barriers to their products. For example, the Apple iPod products will only allow you to download iTunes songs from Apple iTunes which speaks to their digital rights management system which prohibits customers from utilizing competitor’s products. Success linked to culture Successes linked directly to the change of the sixty to seventy hour work week for employees endured during the middle nineties, the culture at Apple began to change and when into the survival mode, almost everything controversial was excused for ensuring the survival of the company. The most fundamental change that happened when Steve Jobs, chairman...
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...Analysis 1 - Apple Computer: Research how Apple managed to reinvent itself over the years. Answer the following questions: 1. What were some of Apple's biggest successes and failures? Describe why. 2. How much of Apple's success can be linked directly back to its culture? Why? 3. How do the actions of Apple apply to the TCOs? Your Case should be 1 - 2 pages, single-spaced, have references, and typed in an easy-to-read font in MS Word. At the top right-hand corner of your paper, please include your full name, the case name, our course number (TM583), and the date. Apple’s success can be linked directly back to its culture "There's an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love. 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.' And we've always tried to do that at Apple. Since the very very beginning, and we always... me of Apple's biggest successes and failures? Describe why. What were so Apple Computer: Research How Apple Managed To Reinvent Itself Over The Years. Apple’s Most immensely colossal Successes and Failures Apple has created a factory built around innovation. It seems to harness creativity, stimulate new conceptions, and launches successful, remuneratively lucrative, revolutionary products. I believe that Apple’s most immensely colossal success is its ability to leverage its innovation processes to seize new opportunities in the marketplace and grow its business at an incredible pace. Steve Jobs, the co-founder and CEO of Apple, often boasts...
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...were some of Apple’s biggest successes and 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 ...
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...Ahmed Alashwal Case#1: Apple Computer. Course No.: TM583. I- Some of Apples’ Biggest Success and Failures 1- 5 biggest Successes iPhone: Apple released this product in 2007 as all-in-one device. The new look, new browsing features and the advanced OS along with deploying 3G wireless technology made this user-friendly a very successful products. It also has all the features of an iPod. iPod: First launched in 2001 and included a hard drive along with a variable product line with different media capabilities. It can also sever as an external data storage device. iPad: Can be considered as 10’’ iPhone. With a very light weight of 1.5lbs and designed to thinner than many magazine, this is the top contender versus the current notebooks. Apple II: Introduced in 1977. That was one of the earliest PC computers and it put Apple as a computer company in the market. Rapidly, it appeared in many public schools labs and it remained in manufacturing line till 1993. Itunes: Since 2001, Apple made this FREE media player is available for everybody. It’s combined with music and video online store and it as an interface to manage the contents of iPod, iphone and iPad. 2- 5 biggest Failures: Apple III: Released in 1980. After the very successes AppleII , this new Apple III with high cost and technical problems like chips coming loose and melted floppy disk. Apple fixed the problems but the time was over for this product. Apple Lisa: Presented to customer...
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...Established on April 1, 1976 Apple (then Apple computers Inc) has risen in these past 30 plus to be one of the most well-known companies in the electronics world today. Their innovative thinking and creative products have taken the world by storm. The truth behind it though is that they have not always been successful there have been times when they have fallen short of the mark and failed to gain the success that they have been known for. The following are a few examples of their successes and a few of their failures. Successes IMac (1998) Off Apples many successful endeavours none of them have outshined the IMac. Introduced in the year 1998 at a price of $1,199 the system took the technical world by storm. The IMac system was in interesting bit of technology having the CPU and the monitor built in one brightly coloured casing. The IMac was called an industry altering success the reason simply being that the digital age was in full swing and the IMac gave more power than anything on the market at the time, it was more compact than thing on the market at the time and it looked better with its candy coloured body. IPod (2001) One of the driving forces behind Apple’s success would have to be their tendency to make technology smaller and small, with even more power. This premise was very evident in the October 2001 release of the IPod music player. The selling point for the IPod was that it was 1000 songs in your pocket. At the time the world was deep into the CD era heading...
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...I- Some of Apples’ Biggest Success and Failures 1- 5 biggest Successes iPhone: Apple released this product in 2007 as all-in-one device. The new look, new browsing features and the advanced OS along with deploying 3G wireless technology made this user-friendly a very successful products. It also has all the features of an iPod. iPod: First launched in 2001 and included a hard drive along with a variable product line with different media capabilities. It can also sever as an external data storage device. iPad: Can be considered as 10’’ iPhone. With a very light weight of 1.5lbs and designed to thinner than many magazine, this is the top contender versus the current notebooks. Apple II: Introduced in 1977. That was one of the earliest PC computers and it put Apple as a computer company in the market. Rapidly, it appeared in many public schools labs and it remained in manufacturing line till 1993. Itunes: Since 2001, Apple made this FREE media player is available for everybody. It’s combined with music and video online store and it as an interface to manage the contents of iPod, iphone and iPad. 2- 5 biggest Failures: Apple III: Released in 1980. After the very successes AppleII , this new Apple III with high cost and technical problems like chips coming loose and melted floppy disk. Apple fixed the problems but the time was over for this product. Apple Lisa: Presented to customer as a powerful personal workstation for inside office work...
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...Case Analysis 1: Apple Computer NETW583 – Strategic Management of Tech For this brief paper I have been asked to answer the following three questions about the company Apple Inc. : What were some of Apple's biggest successes and failures? How much of Apple's success can be linked directly back to its culture? How do the actions of Apple apply to the TCOs? The best way I can most effetely answer these questions is to start with the second question, How much of Apple's success can be linked directly back to its culture? I think that a Apples success can be significantly linked directly back to its culture. This question is easily supported by what happened when Apple hired John Sculley as their President and CEO in 1983 and pressured Steve Jobs to resign in 1985. During this period of time Sculley brought a corporate culture from Pepsi into Apple which was a significant change from what the company had been used to with Jobs leading the company. During the time that Sculley was at the realm Apple saw significant failures in which I will outline when answering the next question and he changed business models which adversely affected Apple to the extent that some say he almost drove Apple into the ground for good. After Jobs return in 1997 he immediately started driving the businesses culture in a completely different direction in which he focused on the experience his products gave the user and went on to inspire others in the company to be creative and come up with...
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...Apple’s Biggest Successes and Failures Apple has created a factory built around innovation. It seems to harness creativity, stimulate new ideas, and launches successful, profitable, revolutionary products. I believe that Apple’s biggest success is its ability to leverage its innovation processes to seize new opportunities in the marketplace and grow its business at an incredible pace. Steve Jobs, the co-founder and CEO of Apple, often boasts about the company culture and how it’s based upon innovation, forward thinking, and focus on the “experience”. Aside from obvious iPhone and iPad successes, Apple manifested many of its incredible products from incredible misses early in its history. Lisa and the Newton were both recklessly ambitious projects that failed, but were in line with Jobs’ forward thinking mantra. In 1983, the Lisa incorporated features like a drop-down menu bar, windows, a hierarchal file system, the ability to copy and paste, icons, folders and a mouse, while its competitors relied on cryptic text and keyboard commands such as MS-DOS. This user experience had previously existed only in research labs. The use of virtual memory coupled with a fairly slow disk system made the system performance seem sluggish at times. One of the main reasons of Lisa's failure was its astonishing price of $ 9,995 dollars (equivalent to $20,000 in 2010). The Newton, with its small size and handwriting-recognition software, is still considered by many to be a pioneer and...
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...Case Analysis 1 – Apple Computer: Research how Apple managed to reinvent itself over the years Question 1. What were some of Apple’s biggest successes and failures? Describe why. Apple has had plenty of successes and failures. Three of Apple’s biggest successes were the iPod, iTunes, and the iPhone. The iPod MP3 player introduced the world to a new technological advancement in October 2001. The iPod was so popular because it permitted access to thousands of songs and videos at the fingertips. The iPod is still a best seller 10 years later. I think the iPod has been a success because it has given customers relief from common CD problems, such as scratching, skipping, and misplacement. The iPod keeps customers’ musical library at their fingertips, which never scratches, skips, or becomes misplaced. iTunes is Apple’s popular media management software. iTunes has been successful by allowing customers to keep a library full of movies, music, mobile apps, ringtones, audio books, and podcasts. iTunes is the media management software that makes transferring data to the iPod and iPhone simple. I think iTunes has been a success because it has changed the way customers sort and keep track of their various music files, movie files, mobile apps, etc. The iPhone is Apple’s creation that launched the beginning of the smartphone phase. The iPhone does just about anything. It allows customers to download more than 120,000 high class apps, as well as use the built-in iPod. The...
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...What were some of 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...
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...Gipson Case Analysis 1 – Apple Computer: Research How Apple managed to Reinvent Itself Over the Years. NETW583 September 6, 2015 What do companies who succeed and thrive in today’s world have in common? What does it take for a company to thrive in an ever-changing environment? One secret weapon most companies have discovered as a top priority today is innovation. In the world we reside in today, it’s a must that innovation is an important key to an organization’s overall business strategy. One company in particular, Apple, took the world by storm and used innovation and vision to turn the company failures into an overload of success. In this paper we will discuss some of Apple’s biggest successes and failures, how much of Apple’s success can be linked directly back to its culture, and the actions of Apple and how they apply to our TCO’s. To give some background of the company history, Apple was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne on April 1, 1976, to develop and sell personal computers. Jobs and Wozniak shared Job’s vision to build computers that average people could use and enjoy. Because of amid unsuccessful product launches, a power struggle ensued within the company and led to the resignation of Steve jobs in 1985. It was one year later that Steve's return to Apple was set into motion. So what were some of Apple's biggest successes and failures during the return of Steve Jobs? One of the first inventions, The Apple II, became the most popular...
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...Case Analysis: Apple Computer Course number: NETW583 Date: May 10th, 2013 The innovation of apple computer began with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in the garage of the parents of Steve Jobs in Mountain View, California. On 1st April 1976, fool’s day, the first apple computer was formed by Ronald Wayne, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs. The following year, 1977 the apple company was incorporated. The first Apple Computer was a failure and was followed by the second one which was successful. Today Apple Company is one of the most revolutionary computer companies in the world that is involved in designing, developing and marketing personal computers, media devices, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. (Datamonitor, 2011) The timeline gives us an outlook of Apple’s biggest successes and failures. Some of the Apple’s successes come from the reinvention of Apple computer and Apple’s culture. The first success came from the Apple II in 1977. The Apple II was designed for mass production and broad consumer appeal and that must have contributed to the success of Apple II. In 1984, the introduction of first Macintosh was a success. To appeal to the consumes, Apple created hype around the Macintosh with its infamous "1984" Super Bowl commercial, and announced it...
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...Apple’s biggest successes and failures? Describe why. I would say the biggest success of apple’s product are; Apple II ( unit sold 5-6 million) ( $1298) Powerbook 140 (Units sold 300,000) ($1649) Ipod ( Unit sold +220 million) ($399) Macbook (Units sold +10million) ($1099) iphone ( Units sold +4million) ($299 w/ contract) Worst products and Biggest Failures Apple III- so pricey (started $4500 and ran up to$8000) and it is bad. They replaced 14000 units. This unit grew so hot inside its fan less, cramped interior that chips would literary pop out of their sockets. Consumers rejected this unit and it just had 75000 unit sold over its 3yrs lifespan. Apple Lisa- It is again a hell a lot of money ($10,000). Apple asked customers to cough up for it’s impressively innovative but otherwise unspectacular Lisa. It is not fast, and it wasn’t particularly hardware front. By that time, IBM-based PCs were substantially more affordable compare to Lisa. Lisa was dead and buried on 1985. Apple Newton- Scorned in comic strips such as Doonesbury, and suffering from a digital glandular problem that kept the unit nearly as bulky as a small notebook, Apple’s Newton – widely considered to be the first tangible PDA – wasn’t an immediate failure. Indeed, the Newton was considered by many to be ahead of its time. But it’s oft ballyhooed handwriting recognition feature flopped initially (though it was later improved upon) and its price point, like so many other Apple products...
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