Segmentation Segmentation may be defined as the process of dividing a heterogeneous market into homogeneous sub-units. To get a product or service to the right person or company‚ a marketer would firstly segment the market‚ then target a single segment or series of segments‚ and finally position within the segment(s). Segmentation is essentially the identification of subsets of buyers within a market who share similar needs and who demonstrate similar buyer behavior. Segmentation aims
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The Impact of the iPod “Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something‚ they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it‚ they just saw something” (Jobs). The iPod is the most well designed mp3 player in the market today. One of the main things consumers like so much about it is originality. The creators of the iPod did not do so by studying others‚ they used their own ideas‚ own imagination and had their own motivation. The iPod impacted the music
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The iPod‚ Apple Computer’s new breakthrough music player that can store and play up to 2‚000 songs from a handheld computer no bigger than a cigarette pack (Technology)‚ provides a striking illustration of what global marketing is all about. When Steve Jobs‚ CEO of Apple Computer‚ first introduced the iPod in October 2001‚ it was received with scepticism. The digital music player was considered only marketable to a small‚ tech-savvy group of individuals‚ and the high price (starting at US$399)
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Q4. Is Apple’s strategy in its computer business strong enough to compete successfully against Dell and HP? From Exhibit 3 we can see that in 2008 Apple upholds 8.5 % of the U.S. PC Market. Today’s generation are now more techno aware and therefore their expectations are higher than what they used to be. Apples rivals such as Dell and Hewlett-Packard possess a large size of the market at 31.9% and 25.3% respectively. From analysing the case study it is evident that a vast majority of consumers
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THE MAGIC OF IPOD Case Study This case study describes the iPod brand personality comparing it with Nokia brand personality‚ the unique lifestyle of the iPod users‚ and how it changed the music listening lifestyle. First‚ when the iPod was launched in 2001 it was not the first MP3 player but over the years it developed a distinct personality: The iPod personality is simple and consistent because of its simple and consistent design and user interface. Innovative because it introduced many creative
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CORPORATE LEVEL STRATEGY OF APPLE COMPUTER INC. Low level of diversification (1976-1996) To examine what strategies have been used by Apple‚ we divided the period into two ages. The first age is in between 1976 until 1996 were we can observe that all the products sold by Apple were computer related. They started with Apple 1 and continuously developed their products up until the evolutionary of Macintosh. However‚ their development restrained only to computers‚ chips and software which indicates
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I am going to describe the Strategic and Marketing Plan of Apple Inc‚ Which is the biggest consumer electronics provider in the world. It provides wide range of consumer electronics in the market like MAC computers‚ IPOD‚ I Phone‚ LAPTOP‚ IPAD. It has about 49‚400 employs and over 240 Retails Store all around the world wide out of it 218 are in US and 24 in UK rest in other countries. I personally think that before studying the strategy of any organization we need to understand the basic of Strategic
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The two most important factors that made it difficult for Apple to compete in the PC industry were the lack of software availability for the Macintosh operating system and the lack of differentiation of Apple’s products. These two factors are key reasons why Apple’s share of the global PC market still languishes in the 3% range. Macintosh lagged in available applications early and is still paying the price for this today. In the 1990s‚ while the number of applications on PCs exploded‚ the Macintosh
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Apple once again delivered very strong results in the face of hesitant consumers under recessionary pressures. Total revenue growth for the latest quarter was +36% led by the Mac brand in personal computers at +51%. The MP3 segment led by the I Pod brand delivered growth of +1% while the iPhone sold 1.7 mm units. So how is Apple able to deliver consistent sales and profit growth in tough recessionary times with premium pricing while many of its competitors deliver poor results. In a phrase --it’s
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Apple Social Strategy In the case “Apple Inc. in 2010”‚ we can see that between 1980 and 1996‚ the company struggled with different management style and strategies. During those 16 years‚ Apple was a computer-based company that was not trying to differentiate itself from its competitor. That is why‚ in 1996‚ when Steve Jobs returned to Apple‚ he started to focus on the social aspect of Apple but also on how to innovate and create new products in order to differentiate the company. First of all
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