S.W.O.T Analysis- Apple Inc. Eleanor Arlook DMP- Thursday 6:30-9:20 SWOT ANALYSIS Apple designs‚ manufactures and markets personal computers and related software‚ portable digital music players‚ and related accessories.The company markets third party audio and video products‚ and provides related services.The company has a strong brand image‚ which enables it to command a premium price for its products‚ giving it an edge over regional as well as other global competitors. However‚ intense
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History of the iPhone By selling 8.8 million handsets in the first quarter of 2010‚ the Apple iPhone has become the most widely sold mobile phone in the US. Read on to peep into the history of this fast selling device. History and Development iPhone’s history began when Steve Jobs instructed Apple Inc’s top engineers to investigate touch screens and create the iPhone. The development of this device started nearly a decade before it came to the markets in 2007. In 1999‚ Apple acquired the rights
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Marketing the iPhone Introduction to Marketing Table of Content Introduction ……………………………………………………………………………………….3 About the iPhone ...………………………………………………………………………………..3 Marketing Concept ...……………………………………………………………………………...4 Social Responsibility ..…………………………………………………….………………….......5 Target Market ……………………………………………………………………………………..6 Marketing Environment …...………………………………………………………………….......7 Competition …………………………………………………………………………………….....8 Market Segmentation ……………………………………………………………………………
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AP 1.0 Introduction Apple started in April 1976 as a computer company by Steve Wozniak at 26 years old and Steve Jobs at 21. Then‚ McKenna had designed the Apple logo in 1977. After putting in much effort‚ the annual sales reached $1 million selling the first microcomputer to use color graphics. In September 1997‚ Apple’s board of directors named Jobs as a temporary chief executive officer. Because of Jobs’s restorative efforts‚ by the decade’s end‚ the title of "temporary" was dropped
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The situational analysis of a company’s product is essential to understanding where a product can best succeed and‚ often more importantly‚ where it will fail. To conduct a thorough analysis of a product involves examining the strengths‚ weaknesses‚ opportunities‚ and threats that a product brings to a company. In the case of Apple and the iPhone 5s‚ these four qualities are simple to ascertain. I. Strengths The Apple iPhone 5s‚ has several strengths. For instance‚ Apple has very high consumer
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SWOT analysis of Apple This is an Apple Inc. SWOT analysis for 2013. For more information on how to do SWOT analysis please refer to our article. Company background Name Industries served Apple Inc. Computer hardware Computer software Consumer electronics Digital distribution Worldwide U.S. Tim Cook $ 156.508 billion (2012) $ 41.733 billion (2012) 72‚800 Samsung Electronics Co.‚ Ltd.‚ Amazon.com‚ Inc.‚ International Business Machines Corporation‚ Cisco Systems‚ Inc.‚ Google Inc.‚ Microsoft Corporation
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Executive Summary History Ever since Apple Inc. was established‚ they never had a straight way to reach success‚ but today Apple. Inc is the one of the largest and most successful technological companies around the world. Their main key to success is that they have a good management team that is led by founder Mr. Steve Job. They have had some issues that may have had some bad influence to their recent success‚ such as gross margins that were not increasing despite falling component prices‚ but
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Q1: Apple faced with two main pricing decisions for its range of iPhones. The first one is a skimming price decision and the second one is a penetration pricing decision. 1. Skimming price decision When Apple first launched the new iPhone 3GS‚ it made a skimming price decision which means it aims to sell to the top of the market and focuses on maximizing profits in short term so it could recover the research and development costs. 2. Penetration pricing decision As the iPhones have moved
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Internal Analysis Tangible resources Apple’s tangible resources are extensive and widely documented despite the company’s high level of security in matters of design. The value of analysing the tangible assets of the organisation lies in the determination of the potential for the creation of competitive advantage (Grant 2007). In terms of financial resources‚ the case quotes Apple’s market capitalisation is approximately US $550 billion‚ with sales annually over $100 billion. This makes Apple the most
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Apple Computer Inc.’s strategy to gain market share dominance by market penetration has achieved poor results. This report finds that the industry has consolidated around six companies. The industry is unattractive for new entrants but for the existing firms‚ there is much market growth to be exploited. The financial analysis of Apple indicates that the strategies have not provided a strategic fit with the critical success factors of the industry. The company may come
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