What should Tim Cook do now?
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Section A
About Apple
Products
Iphone
Ipad
Ipod
MAC
New products
New geographies
Financial position: cash flow recommendations ABOUT APPLE:
Apple is the third largest mobile phone maker in the world and also the largest publicly traded corporation in the world by market capitalization. Apple recorded profit of $18bn in the 1st quarter of 2015. It now has $178bn cash in the bank. In the last quarter, Apple reported:
• 74M iPhones
• 21M iPads
• 5.5M Macs
• $75B of total revenue
• $24B of operating income
• 500M visitors to Apple retail stores (physical and online)
APPLE PRODUCTS: iPhone iPhone, Apple’s smart phone series, has had 8 generations each accompanied by a major release of iOS. The first generation iPhone was
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EXPANSION INTO NEW PRODUCT LINES
Apple has always had innovation as its core competency. It conceptualizes gadgets that could simplify and at the same time raise the standard of quality to its customers. Apple is known for high end products that ensure quality at a price. It could further look to innovate and come up with products in the mid price range segment.
Apple is already looking to expand into newer product lines apart from its existing lines of business. It is looking to launch the Apple Watch. Apple Watch is a high end premium Smart Watch that Apple has announced. It will have a number of features ranging from calling, messaging to fitness tracking. It can also be used as a music player and can be used to make online payments. It will be a high precision watch that will provide the user high levels of accuracy. Apple should also keep some of the features of this new statement watch in the wraps so that their competition doesn’t get enough time to come up with something similar, thereby not compromising its competitive advantage.
APPLE TV
EXPANSION INTO NEW
Executive Summary The apple watch (marketed as the WATCH) is a new sapphire-coated smartwatch created by the Apple Inc. Timothy Donald “Tim” Cook (The current CEO of the corporation) announced
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How Sustainable is Apple’s Competitive position Introduction Apple started out simply as a computer company producing Macintosh computers and software, but has since evolved over the years to manufacture other products. It introduced iPods in 2001 for music players, in 2007, it started producing iPhones. Its products are consumer oriented and this has contributed to the success of the company. Apple also views innovation as basis of survival and business development (Yoffie, 2012).
Apple’s vision Apple 's vision is to create and deliver electronic music and personal computers to individuals, teachers, employees, students, and computers used in government agencies and companies. Apple 's strategy focused on enhancing its ability to design and contribute to its development, It’s easy to use and distinctive design and innovative. Importance of knowledge management in Apple Company Knowledge Management (KM) is a discipline that improves Apple 's ability to better solve problems, adapt, evolve to meet changing business requirements, and survive with disruptive changes.
Apple Inc. embraces diversification strategy as a means of promoting its viability in the market. Largely, the creation of the three products lines compounds the sources of the company’s income. In fact, the company does not rely on a single source of income because the product design belongs to different categories. This strategy cushions the business from suffering risks of associated with depending on a single business. According Hitt, Ireland, and Hoskisson (2014, p.135), the benefit of handling many products is that when one product fail or does poorly in the market, the business is would shift its attention of the best performing products.
Apple on the hand arguably is considered to be the mother of modern smartphones. On June 29, 2007, the cofounder of Apple Inc Steve Jobs announced the release of iPhone, a technology they had been working on for about five years. It was the first of its kind compared to the other players in the market like Blackberry, Motorola and Palm who were already making pocket personal computers. The new tech had a bigger screen, multi-touch interface and the mind-boggling on-screen keyboard was met with a lot of excitement. With these new ideas Apple dominated the phone market and during the Macworld Expo keynote speech, Jobs reported that the Apple iPhone had a 28% market share in Q4 2007 this represented significant growth in the second full quarter that iPhone has been on sale and translated to a
Apple Company has a total of about 36,800 employees. 2,500 are temporary employees and 34,300 are full time employees. According to a research, 69% of iPod users are between the age group of 13-24. 31% iPhone users are between the age group of 35-50.
ACHIEVING GLOBAL COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE OF APPLE INC. Apple Inc. is an American conglomerate company located in one immeasurable loop, Cupertino, California in the middle of the Silicon Valley. (OPPapers, 2012). Apple is motivated on their designing, developing, innovating new products like the personal computers, other related software products, and the electronic products such as MP3 players and iPods. Apple Inc.’s main products are iMac, iPod, iPhone, iPads and its latest advanced product is iWatch, which is on the edge of creating another revolution after iPhone. Apple Inc. has transformed its image from an inventive computer manufacturer to a fully-fledged consumer 's electronic company.
Intro The Apple Watch is a smartwatch created by Apple Inc. It includes fitness tracking and health-oriented capabilities as well as incorporation with iOS and other Apple products and services. Apple announced the Apple Watch with three variants. Firstly there is the original apple watch, secondly there is the apple watch sport and lastly there is the apple watch edition, in which the case is crafted from 18 karat gold.
Apple is currently one of the largest Info-Tech Company in the world. It has taken over the world with its high-tech and futuristic Products, which helped Apple in creating a great Brand Loyalty amongst its customer. The company has various products and services like iPhone, Mac, iPad Apple Watch, Apple TV and Apple also uses its own Operating System for its Products like iOS, MacOS. Not only the beauty of the Apple products but they also make your life very easy too.
Fitbit has stepped up to this by developing the ionic for the youth, with a growing world, largely dependent on technology the Fitbit now offers features like Fitbit pay. This feature comes in handy when you may forget your wallet or need to travel light on a jog. Another product value is being able to track your fitness, Fitbit has been a massive game changer, making fitness into a game, with Fitbit phone application, users can track and earn medals for their fitness. Manage their diets and have challenges with
1. INTRODUCTION Apple Inc. Official, a famous IT company in the world, began with a computer. They produce electronic gadgets with a good quality and attractive over the year. With their massive success, however, they are actually having problems, regardless internal or external problems.
3.0 Macro Environment that Effects Apple Social-cultural, technology, economic, political and legislation is the elements of macro environment that effects Apple which are described as below: 3.1 Social-cultural ITunes is Apple’s biggest virtual media store. In general, the image of the Apple also depicts the modern individual lifestyle, combining function and conception, resulting in brand recognition and commitment. In conditions of the demographic features, Apple is targeting the two major generations. One generation is mainly consists of working adults, where they might sustain a higher and stable income to purchase Apple’s expensive and complex equipment. Thusly, the sophisticated and high-tech Apple products would definitely
Developing different devices like the iPhone, iPod, and iPad makes Apple Inc. the famous company it is and has always been. Their advanced
The apple company became one the largest company of Information technology in the world with few years after the joining of Tim Cook. After the Steve jobs resign as CEO, Tim Cooke got the responsibility of CEO of Apple Company. He leaded the company very well. Beyond the Job of CEO, he played different important role in the making of new version of iphone, iPad, Mac and iPod etc. Apple announced a dollar 2.65 cash profit per share, investing $100 million in a work to begin construction of some Macs in the United States.