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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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competition from Nokia and others' Jennifer L.Schenker 'the iPhone in Europe: Lost in Translation', The plummeting economy persuaded Apple to decrease the price of it's product as global recession was hitting it's peak by the time Apple launched it's product in the European market. The market although dense & vast still couldn't afford the price of the product so Apple had to work on the problem enumerate the decision factors and the best alternative it had according to the situation was lowering
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