Apple Brand Audit 1. Brand Inventory A. Brand Elements Apple Inc. has been committed to bringing the best personal computing experience to students‚ educators‚ creative professionals and consumers around the world through its innovative hardware‚ software and Internet offerings. Apple Inc. designs‚ manufactures‚ and sells computers‚ music players‚ and now mobile communication devices. Apple Inc. has always been known by its users as a revolutionary and innovative company that never
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programs are produced by Apple. This sort of control over the entire user process‚ from hardware to software‚ strengthens customer loyalty. Apple users generally don’t have to stray to find products and solutions they want. Apple has sold more than 3m video downloads since it began offering them through its iTunes Music Store some 55 days ago‚ the company revealed yesterday.That translates into over 54‚545 downloads a day‚ a 3.6 per cent gain on the 52‚632 downloads a day average Apple established during
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Apples vs. Oranges Although apples and oranges are both fruits‚ they each have many similarities and differences. Some differences are the where they’re grown‚ color‚ tastes‚ appearance and many others. The ways that they are similar are that they have the same shape‚ grown on trees‚ both are fruits and have juice. The exact definition of an apple is the” fleshy usually rounded red‚ yellow‚ or green edible pome fruit of a usually cultivated tree (genus Malus) of the rose family”. The most common
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iPads‚ and iPhones‚ but are you aware of what iSlave means? Probably not. The term iSlave is used by human rights activists to describe the labor conditions at the Apple ’s manufacturing plants in China. Sadly‚ most of us do not even care where and how these products are made as long as we can enjoy the wonders of technology that Apple can provide us. But there is something more behind these dazzled wonders‚ something that some people have chosen to ignore and some others just really ignore. Whatever
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organizations‚ however the results were not always what they expected‚ and some organizations failed in performing the SWOT strategy‚ some companies also succeeded. The Apple Company is known as typical company which is successful in performing SWOT analysis. This essay will argue that it is a perfect strategy or not and how does it expressed in Apple Company. Technically‚ SWOT is created by 4 words: S‚ W‚ O‚ T‚ in which S represents for strengths‚ W stands for weaknesses‚ O is opportunities‚ and T represents
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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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Case study: Strategic planning at Apple Inc. Comparative Advantage Apple has gained a comparative advantage over its competitors by carefully picking their employees. According to researcher and author Alex Frankel Apple tends to only hire people whom are “passionate about what they were selling”‚ this often meant that they hired enthusiastic Apple product users. In addition‚ Apple’s employees are trained to follow a specific three-step sales process known as position‚ permission‚ and probe
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The Sense of Taste Taste is the ability to respond to dissolved molecules and ions called tastants. Humans detect taste with taste receptor cells. These are clustered in taste buds. Each taste bud has a pore that opens out to the surface of the tongue enabling molecules and ions taken into the mouth to reach the receptor cells inside. There are five primary taste sensations: • salty • sour • sweet • bitter • umami Properties of the taste system. • A single taste bud contains 50–100 taste
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The Candle maker’s petition The candle maker’s petition is an interesting piece. This is a written letter to the French parliament in 1845. It is from a French businessman who is in the artificial light business (candles‚ oil lamps‚ etc.). The man says that if the French government is to keep French industry in France then French parliament must end all natural lighting. They propose this by saying and defending the fact that French government needs to block out the sun! The idea behind all this
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[pic] 9-710-467 APRIL 13‚ 2010 DAVID B. YOFFIE RENEE KIM Apple Inc. in 2010 On April 4‚ 2010‚ Apple Inc. launched its eagerly anticipated iPad amid great hype. The multimedia computer tablet was the third major innovation that Apple had released over the last decade. CEO Steve Jobs had argued that the iPad was another revolutionary product that could emulate the smashing success of the iPod and the iPhone. Expectations ran high. Even The Economist displayed the release of the iPad on
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