Background Information Apple was founded by Steven Jobs, Stephen Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne in 1976, they launched their first computer in 1977 in which they earned over $100 million by 1980. In 1984, Apple introduced the Macintosh, the first personal computer with a mouse, which was very unsuccessful in the beginning. Steven Jobs left Apple but returned to work there in 1997. Apple created very innovative products such as the iPod, iMac, iPhone, and iTunes. Apple is known for technologically
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Case Study & Analysis - Apple A note on history of disruptive technology and Apple Computers: Apple computers (Inc.) has been a pioneer in successfully introducing one disruptive technology after another. Beginning in the 1980’s, Apple introduced the first “personal computer” to the market. Although IBM would soon take over this market, Apple still gave birth to idea, and looking 20 years down the road to the introduction of the MacBook, we can see that Apple was able to finally restore its
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Apple Inc. MBA 669 Financial Decision Making September 24, 2011 Presented By: Terri Brooks Cheri Clark Adrian Horton Beth Leff Andrew Lundquist Xia Yang Product Description Apple’s product line has always pushed integration, especially within its own products. Updated versions have even merged two different Apple products into one; how many people will continue to have an iPod when the iPad or iPhone perform the same function. While most of Apple’s previous offerings have fallen
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Introduction Apple is a major computer company who has great pioneering designs and understanding of what consumers want, and what can be made to place it in the forefront of American and international business. Apple is an American multinational computer hardware, software and PC corporation. They have also created several hand held phones and multimedia devices that are trendy all around the globe (unknown, n.d.). In 1976 Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne started Apple. The corporation
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Apple Computer Incorporated Barbara Hebron MGT/521 September 19, 2011 Apple Computer Incorporated When conducting a business analysis it is important to take into consideration the company’s business strategies, financial health as well as technological advantages the company has over its competitors within the industry. Apple incorporated has the talented Steven Jobs and Jonathan Ives along with other top idealists. Acquiring such brainpower clearly gives Apple an advantage over competitors
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Business Analysis Part I Muhammad Naseem Siddiqui September 05, 2011 Apple is an American multinational corporation, established on April 1, 1976 in Cupertino, California that designs and markets consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. The company's best known hardware products include the Macintosh computers, the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad. Apple software includes the Mac OS X operating system; the iTunes media browser; the iLife suite of multimedia
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III The strategic initiative taken by the company I selected for the business analysis for week four and week five Apple Inc. has taken to be more innovative and stylish and exploring new markets. Apple focus more on broad markets “which” includes telecom and music incorporation, and this is what kept Apple acquiring, and retaining more knowledge, and gaining experience. Apple Inc. recently alliance with Microsoft has opened new door for the organization to explore the corporate world with its
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Apple computer operates under a Functional Structure. Such organizations are divided into specific departments and employees are hired for each department based on their professional skill sets that are best suited for that department. For instance, an accounts graduate would be preferred over an arts graduate for handling the accounts and taxation department. Apple has their store which you can visit in almost most major big city as well as their online market base site. Apple computers offer
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HP Touch Pad The HP Touch Pad was created to compete with the Apple IPad. The HP Touch Pad was being sold at two different memory sizes and two different prices to provide potential buyers with a choice when determining which one to purchase. HP believed that they could outsell the IPad being offered by Apple. The HP Touch Pad was being sold at about $249 for the 16gb and $299 for the 32gb model respectively. Because of disappointing sales, the price of the HP Touch Pad decreased to extremely
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Apple SWOT Analysis Purpose of SWOT analysis The main purpose of the SWOT analysis is to identify the most significant factors that affect a company and its market both internally and externally (Hooley, G. 2004). This analysis provides Apple with quick, executive keys by looking at strength and weaknesses alongside opportunities and threats. It’s designed to help the company’s strategy formulation. The company will be able look at which strengths should be developed and best deployed, which
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