quarter are $12.25 billion of “Adjusted Sales” and $2.85 billion of “Adjusted Net Income.” Apple sold 3.05 million Macintosh® computers during the quarter‚ representing a 17 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. The Company sold 10.2 million iPods during the quarter‚ representing an eight percent unit decline from the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 7.4 million iPhones in the quarter‚ representing seven percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter. B. Strategic Posture Focus on making the best
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not only Apple but also Pixar‚ a hugely successful animation company that teamed with Disney to make Finding Nemo. He created the Mac revolution with the Apple Macintosh computer and reshaped the music industry with iPod and the telephone industry with iPhone. Complementary to the iPod is Apple’s iTunes online music venture‚ also a part of Jobs’s vision dramatically change this online value-added industry. A good leader is a good name card for a company. It helped Apple to rebuild its image and made
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generic strategy in all the three areas‚ which includes 1. Low-cost Leadership - Apple has the benefit of leveraging its big and established supply chain to produce the products at cheaper price. Being the mass producer of products like iPhone and iPod‚ the company can strike an efficient
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to become a profitable business. Apple ’s innovation has always been its hallmark. Beginning with the first Apple till the iPad; Apple products have change the development of the market many times‚ especially during the last decade‚ with the first iPod ’s lunch. Although Apple ’s single technologies have not been walkthroughs created by the company itself‚ it has developed the characteristics of these technologies and combined them in a way that had never been done before. Apple’s PCs relied on
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Part A - Background and Business Profile of Creative Technology Ltd Creative Technology is a publicly listed‚ Singapore-based company founded in July 1981 by a Singaporean Sim Wong Hoo and is a market leader in digital entertainment products. He first set up a small shop in Singapore together with his classmates; developing and selling add on memory boards for Apple II computers and later began building Personal Computers for retail with initial start-up of $6000 from Sim’s own savings. Their
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of electronic products have a high rate of change‚ so the entry barrier are always short lived and management must be capable of recognizing and responding to the changing market characteristics. (teece et al.‚ 1997). The difference between the ipods and the notebook pcs is: • Software does not figure in
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Apple Inc. Case Analysis MB 730 Strategic Analysis Professor McClellan Date: 09/23/2012 Name: Allen (Hanlin) Wang Overview of the PC Industry The personal computer industry came up during the 1970s. A personal computer is one intended for individual use‚ as opposed to a mainframe computer where the end user’s requests are filtered through operating staff‚ or a time sharing system in which one large processor is shared by many individuals. In the 1980s‚ personal computers
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APPLE INC FORMReport) 10-K (Annual Filed 10/27/09 for the Period Ending 09/26/09 Address Telephone CIK Symbol SIC Code Industry Sector Fiscal Year ONE INFINITE LOOP CUPERTINO‚ CA 95014 (408) 996-1010 0000320193 AAPL 3571 - Electronic Computers Computer Hardware Technology 09/30 http://www.edgar-online.com © Copyright 2011‚ EDGAR Online‚ Inc. All Rights Reserved. Distribution and use of this document restricted under EDGAR Online‚ Inc. Terms of Use. Table of Contents UNITED STATES
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Management Unit 1 April 26‚ 2011 I. Introduction & Background Apple Inc. has been at the forefront of innovation and creativity in the computer industry. In 2001‚ they entered into the digital music player industry with the launch of the iPod (Slind & Yoffie‚ pg. 10). Another product line they created is the iPhone‚ which is controversial with its high costs and limitations from AT&T. Apple Inc. started in 1976 and has constantly fought to achieve a high market share in its industries
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” With this addition to Apple’s products‚ it is yet another piece of Apple’s corporate level strategy to create value through related diversification. From solely manufacturing computers‚ Apple in the past ten years has added a music device in the iPod and now a cell phone in the iPhone‚ not to mention a plethora of software for all of its products. Because of such high growth and rapid change‚ Apple must adopt the optimal corporate structure moving forward to maintain its competitive advantage.
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