Apple Inc or Apple Computer Inc

HISTORY:-
Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer, Inc., is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Cupertino, California[2] that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software and personal computers. Its best-known hardware products are the Mac line of computers, the iPod music player, the iPhone smartphone, and the iPad tablet computer. Its consumer software includes the OS X and iOS operating systems, the iTunes media browser, the Safari web browser, and the iLife and iWork creativity and production suites.
The company was founded on April 1, 1976, and incorporated as Apple Computer, Inc. on January 3, 1977.[6] The word "Computer" was removed from its name on January 9, 2007, the same day Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone, reflecting its shifted focus towardsconsumer electronics.[7][8][9]
Apple is the world's second-largest information technology company by revenue after Samsung Electronics, and the world's third-largest mobile phone maker after Samsung and Nokia.[10] Fortune magazine named Apple the most admired company in the United States in 2008, and in the world from 2008 to 2012.[11][12][13][14][15] However, the company has received criticism for its contractors' labor practices, and for Apple's own environmental and business practices.[16][17][18]
As of May 2013, Apple maintains 408 retail stores in fourteen countries[19][20] as well as the online Apple Store and iTunes Store,[21]the latter of which is the world's largest music retailer.[22] Apple is the largest publicly traded corporation in the world by market capitalization, with an estimated value of US$415 billion as of March 2013. As of Sept 29 2012, the company had 72,800 permanent full-time employees and 3,300 temporary full-time employees worldwide.[4] Its worldwide annual revenue in 2012 totalled $156 billion.[4] In May 2013, Apple entered the top ten of the Fortune 500 list of companies for the first time, rising 11 places above its 2012 ranking to take the sixth position

SWOT ANALYSIS:- SWOT analysis a structured planning method used to evaluate the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats involved in a project or in a business venture. A SWOT analysis can be carried out for a product, place, industry or person. It involves specifying the objective of the business venture or project and identifying the internal and external factors that are favorable and unfavorable to achieving that objective. Apple SWOT analysis 2013 | Strengths | Weaknesses | 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 | 1. High price 2. Incompatibility with different OS 3. Decreasing market share 4. Patent infringements 5. Further changes in management 6. Defects of new products 7. Long-term gross margin decline | | Opportunities | Threats | 1. High demand of iPad mini and iPhone 5 2. iTV launch 3. Emergence of the new provider of application processors 4. Growth of tablet and smartphone markets 5. Obtaining patents through acquisitions 6. Damages from patent infringements 7. Strong growth of mobile advertising market 8. Increasing demand for cloud based services | 1. Rapid technological change 2. 2013 tax increases 3. Rising pay levels for Foxconn workers 4. Breached IP rights 5. Price pressure from Samsung over key components 6. Strong dollar 7. Android OS growth 8. Competitors moves in online music market |