Apple Inc. Apple is an extraordinary company. The company was founded by Steve Jobs‚ Steve Wozniak‚ and Ronald Wayne on April 1st 1976. The whole purpose of Apple was‚ to develop and sell personal computers. It has come a long way from a small owned business into a multinational corporation. After the death of Steve Jobs the company had to hire a new CEO‚ Tim Cook. Tim Cook was the complete opposite of Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs was very loud and unpredictable‚ but Cook was quiet and careful. Cooks
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what are other strategies Apple uses to implement and maintain organizational learning. 2. Company profile & Background Apple‚ founded in 1976 by Steven P. Jobs and Steve Wozniak‚ is the world’s largest technology company in terms of market capitalization‚ taking the lead from its long-time rival Microsoft in 2010. Steven Wozniak and Steven Jobs had been friends in high school‚ they had both been interested in electronics‚ and both had been perceived as outsiders. They kept in touch after graduation
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computer come from? These questions are answered in the movie Pirates of the Silicon Valley. The movie Pirates of Silicon Valley portrays how Steve Jobs and Apple got started and how Bill Gates and Microsoft got started. The movie is told through the viewpoint from people that worked with both Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. The documentary shows how both Steve Jobs and Bill Gates struggled through college and how they started both Apple and Microsoft. Throughout the movie‚ there were numerous instances
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1. Passion is essential for success. “I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love. If you haven’t found it yet‚ keep looking.” – Steve Jobs What was driving Steve Jobs? An intense passion for his work. Not a passion for money. Not a passion for success. But a passion for what he did every single day. The dictionary defines passion as “a powerful emotion and boundless enthusiasm.” Let’s face it‚ work takes energy. But when your
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STR/581 March 29‚ 2015 Professor Edward Dempsey Apple Inc.‚ External and Internal Environmental Analysis Environmental analysis is required for strategic planning and strategic implementation for an organization. The two great minds of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak pioneered Apple Inc. into the market in 1976 and since then technology market changed forever. Their mission reached global markets with products and innovations that could only have been dreamed off before. They design and market computer
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It began in 1976 when Steve Jobs‚ Stephen Wozniak and Ronald Wayne formed a company called Apple Computer. Jobs and Wozniak held 45% of the company each as Wayne owned the remaining 10%. Jobs and Wozniak were younger and had very few assets but Ronald Wayne was older and owned several personal assets. Wayne was scared to put these at risk so he sold his share of Apple Computer back to Jobs and Wozniak for around 800 dollars. Today his share in Apple would be worth over 70 billion dollars which is
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Apple History 3 Apple computers‚ or Macintosh to some was started by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. They came to the conclusion that they understood a technology company should be while working for Hewlett-Packard in the late 60’s and 70’s. In 1976 they made the first computer in Steve Jobs garage and offer HP to buy it but nobody wanted it. Since no one around wanted there computer they needed to start there own. They worked
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designs‚ manufactures‚ and markets mobile communication‚ media devices‚ personal computers‚ portable digital music players‚ and sells related software services (Partner‚ 2013). The founders of Apple were Steve Jobs‚ Ronald Wayne‚ and Steve Wozniak; Wayne sold his part of the company to Jobs and Wozniak for $800. Apple went public in 1980 at $22 a share. Apple is the second largest technology company‚ third largest cell phone producer and in the top 10 fortune 500 list. The origins and subsequent evolution
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The Byte Shop was the first retailer of the original Apple I computer‚[2] ordering 50 of the as-yet-unbuilt units from a persistent Steve Jobs. [3] Jobs approached a local computer store‚ the Byte Shop‚ who said they would be interested in the machine‚ but only if it came fully assembled. The owner‚ Paul Terrell‚ went further‚ saying he would order 50 of the machines and pay $500.00 each on delivery. Jobs then took the purchase order that he had been given from the Byte Shop to Cramer Electronics
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Name Professor Course Date of Submission Leadership and Innovation Section A: Apple Inc. Why apple has been successful? Apple Inc. is the brain child of guru tech Steve Wozniak and Steve jobs. it was started in 1971 and since then‚ it has grown to be one of the world’s leading supplier of diverse telecommunication products. The company’s success is attributed to its abilities to remain highly competitive through its innovative business strategies (Davila‚ Epstein and Shelton 231). At Apple
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