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Apple's trade show focus is on its core markets of science and research, education (which is nearly 30% of total laptop and PC sales) (Apple Investor Relations, 2011), enterprise, and the vast global home market (Mitchell, 2011). Apple is very selec Continue Reading...
Apple is very interested in the selling process. As a consequence, Apple has made significant investments in programs designed to improve reseller sales. One of these programs is the Apple Sales Consultant Program. This program consists in placing Continue Reading...
Apple Computers Influence on Popular Culture
Apple Computer, Inc. is recognized worldwide for creating powerful solutions that are based on user-friendly personal computers, servers, peripherals, software, personal digital assistants and Internet co Continue Reading...
Apple Innovation
Innovation at Apple Inc.
Apple Inc. is widely regarded today as an innovator in both the computing and digital media fields with its research and development efforts rippling across all dimensions of the private sector. As the disc Continue Reading...
Apple Company
Apple Computer, Inc. is a multinational corporation with its roots in the United States. It designs and markets consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers (Shetty, 2011). The company has grown to rival the likes of Continue Reading...
Apple Case
Apple represents the business of the future - a business that provides solutions to problems a customer may not even know they possess. Apple has shown how to be first in the market with devices, content and communications and has changed Continue Reading...
It is common for enterprise-level customers to get an 800 number and be asked to bring their systems into a store for support. When a corporation has literally thousands of them this is clearly not feasible, and it has only been recently that Apple Continue Reading...
Given the monopoly of Microsoft on the IT market, Apple needs to implement highly attractive promotional strategies. For instance, given that Apple software runs on Linux operating system, the company freely distributes compact discs containing Lin Continue Reading...
Psychographics of Apple Customers
Sources: (Anthes, 2011) (Barwise, Meehan, 2010).
Recommendations
What Apple must do is re-position the iPad Mini as a viable option for the majority of its customer base by bundling in more software applications Continue Reading...
This understanding will help Apple to better predict future usage patterns.
Apple always wants to be out front of trends in its industry. This characterizes the type of data that it wants to receive. Market feedback data, for example, reflects old Continue Reading...
Apple Inc. Ethics
The Apple Inc. has grown exponentially from the years when it diversified from being strictly a computer manufacturing company to production of consumer electronics. It has then had several firms across the world and in some areas Continue Reading...
Apple's iPhone 5 Marketing Plan
Competitors/Substitutes
Competition is an entity in business that is unavoidable and can be viewed as a risk when a company is venturing into a new market. Nevertheless, competition healthy and should be encouraged f Continue Reading...
Apple Innovation
Innovative Strategy at Apple
Apple Inc. is a company that is known worldwide as one of the most visionary and innovative companies in existence. This reputation is in spite of the near failure of the company during the mid-1990s, a Continue Reading...
Apple
Case Summary
Apple in 2010 is riding high on the success of the iPhone and the iPad. The company is facing decline in some products, while others are at the front end of their life cycle. There is competition in smartphones emerging from Goog Continue Reading...
In doing this, Apple was able to successfully create even greater differentiation through an innovative approach to product positioning that captured new customers while retaining the trust of its large, profitable installed base. Apple has been abl Continue Reading...
The MacBook, which came out five months after the MacBook Pro, is slightly smaller than the MacBook Pro, and the critic at MacWorld.com, Jason Snell, writes that the black MacBook has a matte finish and is "clearly preferred" over the classic white Continue Reading...
Apple: Organizational Vision, Mission and Values Statements
Apple Inc. was founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak who began working together in 1970 for the purpose of creating a personal computer. In the 1980s, Steve Jobs is noted as having stated Continue Reading...
The launch of The Apple Store, Apple's online retail center that made it the first major computer manufacturer to sell its products directly to consumers, was the third largest online retailer within a week of its launch, signaling the success of Jo Continue Reading...
Apple Strategy
Apple: An Application of the Strategic Management Model
Current Situation
Apple Computer still has a small market share in the computer sector compared to some other PC manufacturers as of 2006, particularly Dell and Hewlett-Packard Continue Reading...
Apple's economic performance, characterized by high growth, is not infinitely sustainable -- nothing is on a finite planet - but the company can sustain economic success for a very long time. The company's investment returns are very strong. The ROE Continue Reading...
Apple 1997 Commercial
"the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
1997 Apple Commercial -- Think Different
In 1997 Apple launched a promotional campaign that asked people to "think different." In one Continue Reading...
For a short while, iVision advertising will supersede advertising for all other Apple products in order that the message be delivered without dilution.
There are a number of opportunities for public relations with respect to the iVision. Apple prod Continue Reading...
The technology of the iVision is not innovative, but it allows consumers to combine their television and Internet media in a way that has never been done before. The high degree of interactivity -- by far much greater than in something like Web TV, Continue Reading...
Apple's iPad
Georgia suffered severe political and economic turbulence during the years following the re-establishment of its independence in 1991 (Suny, 1994). In the mid-1990s Georgia began to experience modest but increasing levels of GDP growth Continue Reading...
Operational implications iPod and iTunes downloads iPod must be an internet-based application. When the customer is online, the iTunes software is automatically tied to the iTunes store in such a way as to ensure that the user is up-to-date. The co Continue Reading...
The result of the innovation chain at Apple is that the company has delivered products that are not innovative, but are used and designed in innovative ways. The vertical integration is unique, the design is unique, and Apple's vision for how its p Continue Reading...
Table 2: Distribution of Revenue by Product Area
Source: (Apple Investor Relations, 2008) (Prudential Equity Group LLC, 2006)
Planning
The cornerstone of Apple's planning processes is the continual development of products and services that compl Continue Reading...
The first of these was co-designed with Sony, and established the modern layout for laptop computers that has remained popular ever since.
In 1994, Apple revamped its Macintosh line with the introduction of the Power Macintosh, which was based on t Continue Reading...
Apple needs to increase its market share for iPad 4.
Product outline
Apple Inc. is a well known technology firm that specializes in designing, production and selling of computers, mobile phones and music related devices. The most outstanding featur Continue Reading...
Apple needs to increase its market share for iPad 4.
Product outline
Apple Inc. is a well known technology firm that specializes in designing, production and selling of computers, mobile phones and music related devices. The most outstanding featur Continue Reading...
74 and a cash ratio of 2.03. Apple has no long-term debt and a 2-to-1 debt ratio (MSN Moneycentral, 2010).
Apple has relatively few weaknesses. The company's emphasis on software, marketing and design has left it with a weakness in hardware. Apple p Continue Reading...
APPLE INC: iPhone
Apple Inc.: I Phone
The mobile telecommunications industry is considered one most important sector within the community market, which represents half of the 1.1 billion euros they billed annually worldwide (Merkow and Breithaupt, Continue Reading...
Their focus on software and hardware allowed their company to continue its growth trend. Furthermore, Apple re-designed its computers to focus on making them as easy and as friendly to use as possible. Since, in the 1990s, many individuals were usin Continue Reading...
Apple Case Study
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is a global leader in the development, design, manufacturing and marketing of smartphones, tablets, media devices, personal computers, operating systems, services, peripherals and network solutions. As of Decembe Continue Reading...
Many of the core features of today's Apple product lineup - music, photos, artwork - represent the core needs that modern consumers have for their computers.
The values of the customer base are also reflected. Apple has tended to take a top-down ap Continue Reading...
Apple's cost of production includes both the cost of goods sold and the fixed costs associated with running its operation. The company's business model is that it handles the design and marketing of its products, and then contracts a third party comp Continue Reading...
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Apple Inc. Planning and forecasting
Methods of Forecasting
Over the previous many years, the forecasting power at Apple has taken on numerous diverse methods. In the days where Apple brand lines were more restricte Continue Reading...
With their focus on moving from niche market to eventual cultural iconoclasm, Apple computers is on their way to supplanting the traditional technology powerhouses of the domestic computer industry.
Externally, Apple is under consistent pressure fr Continue Reading...
Apple iTunes
The author of this report has decided to focus on the aspects and dimensions of a certain company. That company is going to be Apple Corporation. Rather than analyze and summarize them at a high level, the author will instead focus on a Continue Reading...