The Apple I‚ Apple’s first product‚ was sold as an assembled circuit board and lacked basic features such as a keyboard‚ monitor‚ and case. The owner of this unit added a keyboard and a wooden case. Apple was established on April 1‚ 1976‚ by Steve Jobs‚ Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne[1] to sell the Apple I personal computer kit‚ a computer single handedly designed by Wozniak. The kits were hand-built by Wozniak[24][25] and first shown to the public at the Homebrew Computer Club.[26] The Apple I was
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Introduction Apple has evolved since the start of their company in the early 70’s. The company has successfully been able to develop a strong hold to being a competitor and innovator. Apple Inc. has been able to gain widespread success due to their ability to create innovative products. Apple stands out in the market because they know what the consumers want and then executes their strategies. The companies’ effective business strategies have allowed them to gain large revenue growth. Apple has been
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Apple and Foxconn Stimulus Material Apple is one of the world’s leading producers of mobile devices with a strong reputation for product innovation and high customer loyalty. In 2009 it was widely reported that Apple’s Chinese-based suppliers were using child labour in several of their large-scale factories. At the largest factory – Foxconn – a growing problem of employee suicide was also reported which was blamed on unethical management approaches. Apple was heavily criticised for its standards
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Apple changed its company name from Apple Computer to Apple Inc in 2007. And with this name change‚ the chief element of Apple strategy is to let consumer know‚ it is not just a computer company‚ but a company provide other products‚ such as iPod‚ iTunes‚ and iPhone. In Sculley Years‚ Apple’s chief element was to be versatile compare to IBM‚ and it will be the complete desktop solution with desktop publishing. Also‚ Mac wants to have a closer relationship with its customers‚ which is called love
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Diploma in Business Administration BM 2011 Business Communication Assignment 1 Name : Cheok Khar Shin Name : See Chun Ching Submitted to : Ms. Shima Shazmimi Date of Submission : Week 3 (Respective of your tutorial classes) 7Cs of Communication What is communication? According to the National Communication Association‚ communication defined as a diverse discipline which investigate by the social scientist‚ social humanist and the critical as well as the cultural studies scholars (National
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Does buying an Apple iPad satisfy a consumer’s functional or psychological need? Apple is one of the best known and widely used brands on the market. Any individual who goes for shopping does not necessarily end up buying products. There are several stages a consumer goes through before he finally picks up things available in the market. Buying an apple iPad can satisfy both psychological and functional need of a customer. For example the person can use it to relax with friends‚ and at same time
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In the past few years Apple and other electronics manufacturers have been in the news for alleged unethical practices carried out by some of their suppliers. The ethical issues were concerning the 2010 suicides in the Chinese Foxconn factories‚ which are the main suppliers for Apple‚ and the IPhone5 strikes that occurred in the beginning of October. All of these events were as a result of the workers’ poor living conditions‚ inadequate health care benefits and a load of overtime hours. Apple’s speedy
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Nonverbal Behavior in Intercultural Business Communication on the Example of Nigeria Team Authoritative Report March 14‚ 2014 Negotiating in business requires taking into consideration numerous factors‚ and when it comes to cross-cultural business‚ an increasingly important role belongs to nonverbal communication. According to Hendon‚ Hendon‚ and Herbig (1996): "Nonverbal behavior may be defined as any behavior‚ intentional or unintentional‚ beyond the words themselves that
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1. Lack of stakeholder engagement strategy – Apple simply doesn’t believe it needs to engage stakeholders‚ not to mention having an engagement strategy. We can see it every time‚ from not sharing information with Greenpeace about why Greenpeace got it wrong about the power consumption of Apple’s North Carolina data center to not responding at first to Chinese environmental groups investigating pollution issues in Apple’s supply chain in China. Another example is Apple’s tendency to reply to questions
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Unit 4 M1-Business communication Introduction In this report I will be analysing different types of business information and their sources using Sainsbury. Sainsbury is one of the second largest supermarket in the UK. Verbal communication Verbal information is the ways we communicate with each other using sound and voice. This verbal information allows people to share views and information to each other for a long time as its one of the easier way of communications. Example of verbal
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