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Apple Inc. : An American Multinational Technology Company

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Apple Inc. Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services. Apple Computer Inc. was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne in 1976 and was renamed Apple Inc. in 1977. Apple Inc.’s has a loyal customer base because of their wide variety of products that are available to their customers. Apple Inc. constantly has to maintain commands among tech-savvy users at the high end of the market in order to maintain their high success rates. So far, Apple has won the contest for consumer loyalty. Even as Google Inc.’s Android widens its lead in the smartphone market, Apple’s iPhone poaches one in five of its customers from users of the rival operating system, according to a survey, released last week by Consumer Intelligence. Samsung, the top seller of Android handsets, only received 7% of its customers from Apple’s iOS (Schectman 2013). In a society that seems to be dependent on technology and social media, Apple is continuously growing with each existing and developing brands they offer to their customers, and with each new development there’s an excitement created by their customers causing lines at stores and preorders of products. In today’s constantly changing technological society Apple Inc. has to differentiate themselves and their products from other companies. Apple Inc. differentiates themselves by thinking differently, their management style, and

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