which bring high profitability to the company. In our case the competitive advantages of Apple is differentiation and innovation‚ high quality‚ great customer responsiveness‚ high level of marketing and having strong sales department. By recruiting Steve Jobs Apple did its first steps. They have done a good research and according to the results offered their production. By having good marketing and sales and good customer responsiveness Apple gained loyal customers. This means that Apple has good capabilities
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Date: May 10th‚ 2013 The innovation of apple computer began with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in the garage of the parents of Steve Jobs in Mountain View‚ California. On 1st April 1976‚ fool’s day‚ the first apple computer was formed by Ronald Wayne‚ Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs. The following year‚ 1977 the apple company was incorporated. The first Apple Computer was a failure and was followed by the second one which was
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Economics for Managerial Decision Making: Market Structure Introduction As legend and reality have it‚ Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak started Apple Computer in a garage in Cupertino‚ Calif.‚ in 1976. From those humble beginnings‚ and through extreme market swings‚ Apple Inc. has become the most valuable company in the world. “Given the company’s unbelievable innovation over the last few years‚ and the subsequent mountains of cash that it has earned as a result‚ the likely catalyst for the stock
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capital are 28% and 39% respectively. Range of Products | Quantity | % of Sales | iPods | 300 million | 70% | iPhone | 100 million | | iPad | 25 million | 95% | iTunes | 12 billion songs‚ 450 million TV episodes‚ 35 million books | | Steve Jobs and the Apple turnaround: IBM had made a comeback in the PC industry and emerged as the new standard. Apple introduced Macintosh in 1984‚ but because of the slow processor speed and lack of
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Wilson English 101 Mac vs. PC Final Draft 24‚ February 2013 Mac vs. PC Bill Gates: “There may be a few….similarities.” Steve Jobs: “Similarities? Similarities? Try theft.” (from “Pirates of Silicon Valley”) Everyone knows of the popular household names Apple and Microsoft. Apple was started by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. They created the first Apple computer in Jobs’ parents garage in the 1970’s. They knew that they had created something great so they called their company Apple. Bill Gates
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Introduction It is clear that competing for sustainable and superior performance enhances a firm’s profitability. Equally‚ this same level of profitability depends largely on the attractiveness of the industry which is easily measured using the Porter’s 5 tools and more importantly‚ the position the firm takes within the industry to leverage on its strengths. To compete properly‚ a firm must address two fundamental questions. Should it focus on identifying a microcosm of the industry or serve the
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multinational corporation that creates consumer electronics‚ computer software‚ and a commercial server. Apple’s most popular inventions are the iPhone‚ iPod music player‚ and Macintosh computer line-up. (WHO)The inventers of Apple Inc. are Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.(WHERE) Apple Inc. was incorporated in January 3‚ 1977‚ in Cupertino‚ California. (WHEN)The inspiration came from when Mr. Wozniak attended a Homebrew Computer Club in 1975‚ he saw different types of computers; he decided to create
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter I Introduction 1 Chapter II Company Background 2 Chapter III Underlining Issues 17 Chapter IV Theoretical Base 19 Chapter V Analysis 25 Chapter VI Conclusion and Recommendation 34 Chapter VII Bibliography 36 CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Cell phone or mobile phone is an electronic telecommunication device that has the same basic capabilities of conventional fixed-line telephone‚ but it can be taken anywhere (portable‚ mobile) and unnecessary connected
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affordable price made IBM pc a huge hit in market. IBM - Open source -- evolution of IBM clones Too many market players lead to price war‚ cost leadership Apple restricted itself to it’s MAC ecosystem‚ there by following differentiation. Post steve job’s exit from Apple‚ Sculley tried to move Apple into mainstream – cost leadership. It failed; Amelio proclaimed that Apple would return to its premium-price differentiation. 2. What is nature of sustainable competitive advantage? CA rests
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first GUI computer they made ‘ALTO’ was never sold to the public as it costs them around $10‚000. Steve Jobs‚ co-founder of Apple who visited PARC‚ decided that GUI on a computer was more useful than a text-based interface. Then Apple I and Apple II were just another less interested computers as other computer giants including IBM were taking over economical stand. For an economic success‚ Steve Jobs introduced Apple Lisa with GUI as similar as Xerox Alto computer. It was sold with costs as high
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