Apple‚ Inc. A Case Study in External Communication Executive Summary Background: On June 25‚ 2010 Apple released the iPhone 4. With its sleek‚ new‚ stainless steel frame design‚ thousands of people rushed to buy Apple’s latest gadget. Apple and its partner carriers received 600‚000 pre-orders for the iPhone 4s in the first 24 hours‚ making it the largest number of pre-orders Apple had received in a single day for any device up to that time. By the end of the month‚ Apple had sold over 1.7
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high due to the existence of patents‚ high fixed costs and economies of scale‚ regulation‚ and brand loyalty. The individual market participants engage in attempts at product differentiation‚ some being more successful than others. The standout is Apple‚ which has successfully
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Diversification Strategies Let’s explain diversification of a company first; I myself thought it meant something totally different. A diversified company is a company that has multiple unrelated businesses. Those different businesses require separate management teams‚ have different customers‚ and produce different products or sell different services. One of the advantages of being a diversified company is that can create a separation from issues of one of the other businesses. Companies can
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An Analysis of the Financial Statements of Apple Intermediate Accounting III INTRODUCTION I chose Apple for my course project mainly based on the fact that they release all their records to the public and they have excellent accounting practices. Their paper work is easy to read and follow and based on their records they have an endless amount of revenue in the billions. As we have discussed about Apple in class I was very intrigued how they looked in the books on a specific level of detail
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BUS 508 | Diversification Strategies | Dr. Marilyn Caroll | | Kayla Lewis | 5/6/2012 | Diversification Strategies In today’s global markets companies are faced with tough decisions‚ one of the toughest decisions a corporation faces is whether or not they should diversify their business. Diversification simply means to mix a wide variety of investments within a portfolio. The rationale behind this technique contends that a portfolio of different kinds of investments will‚ on average
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Executive Overview Apple has been established for over 30 years since Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple Computer in 1976. During Steven Jobs’s tenure as CEO‚ Apple’s mission was to bring an easy-to-use computer to market. However‚ Apple was not performing as good as Jobs projected‚ so he resigned in 1985. In the following 12 years‚ Apple experienced three different CEO’s and still could not be brought back to life. Under John Sculley‚ Apple worked to drive down costs by switching much
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Diversification Strategies Diversification is a risk that companies have to take in order to stay competitive in it’s changing market. Some companies have been successful diversifying their business‚ and in opposition there are other companies that in the process of expanding their business have not succeeded. For the purpose of this report‚ I will use the “Sara Lee Corporation” as a successful company throughout its diversification strategies. On the other hand‚ I would use Ebay as an example
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Unrelated Diversification is a form of diversification when the business adds new or unrelated product lines and penetrates new markets. For example‚ if the shoe producer enters the business of clothing manufacturing. In this case there is no direct connection with the company´s existing business - this The unrelated diversification is based on the concept that any new business or company‚ which can be acquired under favorable financial conditions and has the potential for high revenues‚ is suitable
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Apple Inc. 2010 Case Study Case Summary: Steve Jobs and Steve Wazniak started Apple over 30 years ago. Over that time span‚ Steve jobs was fired from Apple and rehired. It was essentially Jobs that save apple with superb vision and creative innovations. The first innovation was like a fashion statement. The iMac was an innovation that put 2 products into one. The desktop was built into the screen. Then‚ Jobs tackled the world of portable music by inventing the iPod. He shortly followed
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Diversification strategies are strategies used by companies to try to increase profitability through greater sales volumes obtained by new products and/or services. Amazon.com has diversified quite a bit since its conception in 1995. Starting out as an online bookstore‚ and evolving into a one stop e-shopping hub where millions of people shop for a variety of different items over the internet. Amazon.com today is one of the largest online retailers in the world. However‚ when companies try diversification
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