Phil Kwon Scent of Apples The short story Scent of Apples highlights the class stratification in the Filipino community. In order to illustrate this‚ Santos foils the character of the traditional Filipino farmer‚ Fabia‚ to the main character who is from the Islands. It was interesting to see how blind the Filipinos in America were‚ to the situations present in their own country. It was as if their traditions‚ stories‚ and lifestyles were lost when they moved to the United States. Filipina exemplifies
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Market Analysis of the Apple iPod The market studied here is that of the iPod: ‘a brand of portable digital media player de-signed and marketed by Apple Computer.’ Apple have cleverly created a mp3 player that has outsold all competition by using the advantage of brand loyalty. The iPod family has evolved since the original launch in October 2001 when the 5GB iPod was released‚ fol-lowed in 2002 with the launch of the 10GB and 20GB versions. By 2004 Apple had re-leased the iPod mini‚ iPod shuffle
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Apple is not the most valuable company in the history of the world. It’s not even Microsoft‚ which was reported to have been toppled by Apple today. It’s IBM by a long shot. Apple’s $661 billion market share does not account for inflation. With inflation in account‚ IBM remains the historic winner with a 1967 value of $1.3 trillion. The Columbia Journalism Review put this into perspective today by calling out the press for their over zealousness in hoping to tell a story about Apple
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The Apple of Discord "The Apple of Discord‚" also known as "The Golden Apple‚" is a Greek Mythology tale that involved three Goddesses. The three Goddesses included: "Aphrodite" who is noted to have rose up from the foam on the ocean in Babylonian/Sumerian. Aphrodite was worshiped as the Goddess of love and beauty. "Aphros" is the Greek word for "sea foam." Aphrodite had powers associated with fertility and growth/harvesting of crops‚ war‚ and descent to the underworld‚ birth/life/love/death
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CASE: Accounting for the iPhone at Apple Inc. The non-GAAP numbers of Apple Inc. reflect its economics better. Because‚ in the existing method of accounting‚ revenue and cost of goods sold are spread over the lifetime of the product (expected 24-months)‚ while the costs incurred for engineering‚ sales‚ marketing and warranty are recorded immediately. This accurate recording of expenses while recognizing only a part of the cost of goods sold thus showed reduced margins. While this did not affect
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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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Financial Analysis (Submitted by) Abstract The following paper aims at discussing the financial position of the American multinational corporation‚ Apple inc.‚ which designs and markets consumer electronics‚ computers and personal computers mobile communication devices‚ and portable digital music and video players‚ as well as sells various related software‚ services‚ peripherals‚ and networking solutions. Apple Inc. together with subsidiaries sells its products worldwide through its online
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Topic Analysis: Apple Inc. In January 2007‚ three decades after its incorporation‚ Apple Computer Inc. shed the second word in its name and became Apple Inc. With this move‚ the company signaled a fundamental shift away from its historic status as a vendor of the Macintosh personal computer (PC) line. Mac sales remained vital to Apple’s future‚ but they now accounted for less than half of its total revenue. Apple was no longer just a computer company. Its move into digital music‚ with the
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Pomacea Maculata (Apple Snail) (Any and all relations to the 1997 movie Titanic are purely coincidental and did not happen. The following is a work of fiction that is not related to the film in any way.) Once upon a time in a swampy swamp there was a young Florida Apple Snail named Leopold. One day Leopold was searching for food and discovered a snail named Cal from a swamp a long ways away. He spoke of dark days when things called nematodes entered other snails and weakened them so that other
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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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