BACKGROUND Apple Inc. is a well known American multinational corporation that focusing on designing and then marketing consumer electronics‚ computer software‚ and personal computers. Apple Inc. was established on 1st April 1976 in Cupertino‚ California. The company was founded by the key persons in Apple Inc. history‚ Steven Paul Jobs (Steve Jobs) and Stephen Wozniak (Steve Wozniak) and Ronald Wayne. Then‚ after seeing the potential and the future of the computing world‚ Apple was incorporated
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Internal Factor Evaluation (IFE) Matrix for Apple Strengths | Weight | Rating | Wt.Score | 1. Customer loyalty combined with expanding closed system 2. As a leading innovator in mobile device technology 3. Strong financial performance 4. Powerful Brand reputation 5. Retail stores 6. Strong marketing and advertising teams | 0.120.100.090.110.090.10 | 443434 | 0.480.400.270.440.270.40 | Weakness | | | | 1. High Price 2. Incompatibility with different OS 3. Patent infringements
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Sustainability of Apple Inc. Introduction Sustainability should mirror the culture of the organization‚ matching the organizations strategic approach to doing business. Organizations are now developing sustainability strategies and embedding them in the organizations culture. The organization understands that sustainability will play a major role in their future success/failure. Corporate Sustainability can be summed up using the Triple Bottom Line approach. The Triple bottom line theory is Financial
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APPLE 02/12/2014 13:25:24 Page 1 APPLE iPHONE IN JAPAN: WIRE-LESS‚ CULTURE-FULL* r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r INTRODUCTION It was the evening of January 15‚ 2009. Eric Miller‚ Apple Inc.’s Senior Vice President Worldwide Product Marketing is standing‚ waiting for the train on a subway station platform. Eric was sent to Japan by Apple CEO Steve Jobs to oversee the launch of the eagerly awaited iPhone 3GS‚ a newer‚ more powerful iteration of Apple’s revolutionary
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The general objectives of this report are using knowledge of international innovation to analyze the innovation activities of three entrepreneurs and their firms (include Dean Kamen and Segway‚ Richard Branson and the Virgin Group and Steve Jobs and Apple Corp). Firstly‚ comparing and contrasting the three companies and find out similarities and differences in how they start and make a critical evaluation on extent and form of international business activity of the three firms at the current time. Secondly
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The war of Apple and Samsung As well as you known that Apple and Samsung are good partner‚ between the two companies‚ they have lots of cooperation. The earliest cooperation between Apple and Samsung was in the 2007‚ before Apples Company issued IPhone; the Apple Company realized that if they want the mobile phone has good performance‚ they need good chip to support the phone; therefore‚ they found Samsung Company‚ and they began the cooperation. From 2007 to 2012‚ the Samsung Company is providing
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Apple has been in the USA and world marketplace since 1975 and today it is one of the leaders in technology market in the USA and in the world. Some even say “ Apple is mostly Steven Jobs life rather than a company’s history “ During Apple’s history almost most of the time Steven Jobs name is associated with turning points for Apple. For example in the very beginning Jobs and Wozniak created Apple I in 1975 and the sales was pretty much fine. Then Apple II was designed in 1977 and just a within
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SAMSUNG VS APPLE-BATTLE OF THE GIANTS Samsung and Apple are the two biggest smartphone companies with a combined market share of more than half the global smartphone market. Every year both the companies bring in new innovations in their smartphones‚ which greatly increases their smartphone sales. But in today’s market where there is cut throat competition it is given that each company will try to outdo the other in every possible manner. Hence I would like to discuss the fierce battle raging
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Apple Inc. uses the Apple brand to compete across several highly competitive markets‚ including the personal computer industry with its Macintosh line of computers and related software‚ the consumer electronics industry with products such as the iPod‚ digital music distribution through its iTunes Music Store‚ the smart phone market with the Apple iPhone‚ and more recently magazine‚ book‚ games and applications publishing via the AppsStore for iPhone and the iPad tablet computing device. For marketers
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Apple Marketing Strategy A. Marketing Strategy 1. Company Presentation The Company was created on April 1st‚ 1976 by two friends‚ Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak along with one of the former colleagues of Jobs at Atari‚ Roald Wayne who was supposed to act as an arbiter between the two former students but who left the company after only 2 weeks because of his financial situation and the risks involved in the project. The first computer ever created by the company‚ Apple 1‚ was built in
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