APPLE COMPUTER CASE ISSUES Core Competency (CI#1) : Apple design‚ develop and market numerous product and service lines. They sell their products to education‚ consumer creative professional‚ business and government customers. While apple seems to display numerous products and conduct business on different segments‚ it is legitimate to wonder what the company is really good at? Too much diversity is exactly what crushed Apple during the John Scully days. Cannibalization (CI#2): Through January
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Apple Team Project BUSMHR 4490 PC Industry Overview The personal computer industry‚ like many industries before it‚ has undergone drastic changes and innovations since the first PC was introduced. These changes and innovations are necessary to keep up with the always shifting and uncertain market conditions. While a lot of discovering‚ inventing‚ and tinkering was being done in the PC industry in the middle to late 20th century‚ it wasn’t until the late 1970s that Apple pioneered the first useable
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Introduction The PC Industry in the United States (U.S.) is made up of desktop PC’s and mobile PC’s. A desktop PC is a personal computer that and individual would use in their home and is not portable. A mobile PC is also a personal computer and they include laptops‚ notebooks and netbooks. While some people might think that tablets and smartphones would be part of this classification‚ they actually are not part of the mobile PC classification. PC’s are simply just personal computers. Within the PC industry
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Business/Personal Computer Industry Market size: $321 Billion annual revenues worldwide; 357 million units sold annually worldwide Scope of competitive rivalry: The competition within the PC industry is extremely cut throat due to new technology‚ reliability‚ and customer service. The top companies consist of Dell‚ Hewlett Packard‚ Apple‚ Gateway‚ and Sony. Market growth rate: 14% annually Stage in life cycle: Mature Number of companies in industry: There are 5 major PC companies with a handful
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market‚ the barrier to entry was low. This was due to the relatively low startup cost‚ which is a huge contrast to the present industry. Meanwhile‚ the barrier to entry today is moderate. While the threat of new entrants is low in most places‚ the same cannot be said about emerging economies such as India and China. Apart from the high capital cost required‚ qualities of the PCs are of the most important purchasing factors. As such‚ brand awareness is high. However‚ customers in countries such as India
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Five Forces Analysis of PC Industry Threats of Entry The threats of new entrants in the PC industry are low in the U.S. market. The advanced technology is required to make and design PC. The US PC market was dominated by a few big names in year 2007‚ for example HP‚ Dell‚ Apple‚ and they have their own differentiate products. It is thus hard for new competitor to break into the established brand and customer loyalty. Each firm has contract or has built tight relationship with its suppliers
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Dynamic Pricing in the Airline Industry R. Preston McAfee and Vera te Velde California Institute of Technology Abstract: Dynamic price discrimination adjusts prices based on the option value of future sales‚ which varies with time and units available. This paper surveys the theoretical literature on dynamic price discrimination‚ and confronts the theories with new data from airline pricing behavior. Correspondence to: R. Preston McAfee‚ 100 Baxter Hall‚ California Institute of Technology‚
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is known as Mac PCs. Based on the article‚ it is written that no doubt the sales of iPod music players together with iTunes music downloads and sales of the iPhones had generated a lot of profit for the company‚ but the Mac PCs still managed to regain their title as the company’s highest revenue source in June 2007 even though Mac PCs had to struggle their way to break through the worldwide market. The Apple’s Mac sales have indeed increased at triple the rate of other PC industry which made the company
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PC TO PC FIBER OPTIC COMMUNICATION [pic] Submitted By: lex INTRODUCTION DEFINITION The project PC to PC fiber optic communication deals with data transfer from one computer to another. It uses C programming and the serial ports of the PCs. The ports are programmed in C. We use MAX 232 to convert RS 232 logic to TTL logic and then an optical transmitter circuit to transmit data via fiber optic cable. The optical transmitter circuit has a LED which is matched as far the cable
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PC Specification Instructions and Requirements Specifications Table (MS Word) For the specified case study‚ create a summary of user requirements and a PC Specifications Table in Microsoft Word 2010. A copy of that case study appears at the bottom of this document. This Word 2010 document will include a two-paragraph summary that classifies the user type and identifies the PC category(ies) that will be recommended and Word tables that identify and contain the hardware and software requirements
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