I. Current Situation: Current Performance Apple Founded in a California garage on April 1, 1976, Apple created the personal computer revolution with powerful yet easy-to-use machines for the desktop. The company designed, manufactured, and marketed a range of personal computers, mobile communication and media devices, and portable digital music players, and sold a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. The company’s
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project? Apple used to be a leader in the smartphone segment. How has Samsung overtaken Apple and become the brand's best-selling smartphone at the moment? Why are you interested in this topic? The smartphone war is happening and it is receiving attentions worldwide. There are a lot of arguments between Apple and Samsung fans regarding which brand has best smartphone products. I am curious about Samsung’s business approaches which help the company effectively compete with Apple. What is
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Introduction The current global and virtual business environment shapes the business strategy for the aim of competing by knowledge and expertise to win the market share in the long run. Apple Inc. is one of the major leading hardware manufacturers, originates from the United States and is popular among the world. Its long-term direction could be strengthening the research, design, development and manufacturing phases. The success of this company relies its competitive strategy, which integrates
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REPORT ON APPLE INC. SEMINAR GROUP 2 TEAM GENIE Instructor: A/P LAI SI TSUI-AUCH Word Count: 5,999 Done by: CHAN ZHE YING GOH CHUWEN LEE KOK CHONG TEO KOK MIN JOHN 1 Table of Contents I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ............................................................................................................... 3 II. MAIN REPORT............................................................................................................................... 5 1. Introduction of Apple Inc.
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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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Defining Marketing Paper Rebecca Schoenfeld MKT/421 8-8-11 Elizabeth Hartsig Defining Marketing Paper Marketing is a huge part of personal and business day-to-day life. People encounter marketing when they turn on the television, go to the supermarket, on billboards while they are driving down the road, and even at their jobs. Usually individuals opinions about marketing is they will think about the most popular business or products out in the world to date such as electronics, places
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Apple: Leveraging IT to Gain a Competitive Advantage March 14, 2011 Contents 1 Introduction 1 2 Background 1 2.1 Products and Selling 1 2.2 Competition 1 3 Competitive Advantages 2 3.1 First-Movers 2 3.2 Marketing via the Internet 3 3.3 Think Different 4 4 Closing 5 5 References 6 Introduction From the newest consumer gadget to the explosion in communication capacities, technological innovations continue to enhance the lives we live and provide us with new tools to perform
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first independent project. Within two years, his net worth has increased to 200 hundred million dollars. He helped created a spreadsheet program called VisiCalc for Apple computers (founded in 1976) which became a commercial success. Shortly after Jobs success with Apple, he resigned 1985. He sold all but one of his shares in apple which subsequently was worth millions of dollars. He then brought a group of computer scientists together and incorporated it as “Pixar,” an animated computer graphics
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Environmental Analysis: SWOT analysis Strength: 1. Customer loyalty combined with expanding closed ecosystem 2. Apple is a leading innovator in mobile device technology 3. Strong financial performance ($10,000,000,000 cash, gross profit margin 43.9% and no debt) 4. Brand reputation 5. Retail stores 6. Strong marketing and advertising teams. Weaknesses: 1. High price 2. Incompatibility with different OS 3. Decreasing market share 4. Patent infringements 5. Further changes in management
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MARKET PLANNING Marketing objectives The objectives of the marketing plan are centered on the following three criteria: 1. Inform companies about features and benefits of the iPad and its competitive advantage, leading to a 20% increase in sales in one year. 2. Penetrate the traditional PC-based enterprise through the iPad, in turn increasing Apple’s sales by 20% in one year. ac 3. Maintain Apple’s position as the leader in market share in the tablet category. Target market Our target market
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