The mobile phone market had been ruled by companies like Nokia and Motorola back in the day before the smartphone entered the market. Once Apple took over the market when it launched ‘iPhone’ in 2007, other brands scrambled to ride the smartphone wave. The product became immediately popular among users with the hi-tech features becoming the new benchmark for new phones. The iPhone was the first smartphone to introduce a multi-touch interface and unique internal apps. The iPhone is still a strong device in the market and is one of Apple’s leading product lines. After a lot of competition from companies like HTC, LG, Nokia and BlackBerry, the clear survivor was Samsung. Its Galaxy models have been giving Apple’s iPhone a serious run for money with their covetable features. Apple and Samsung are the largest manufactures of smartphones across the world, together producing 53% of the hand-held devices used in the world (www.idc.com). The devices are mainly aimed towards premium millennial users who are likely to continue buying high quality, high priced devices. This essay will analyze Apple and Samsung’s marketing mix along with a comparison of their promotional strategies, value proposition and key positioning for the same target audience.
Target Audience Apple’s iPhone is aimed at millennial users who value latest technology and are not hesitant to spend money iteratively on a new device for its upgraded features. The market can be segmented into general purpose users and
The sensation of the iPhone is obvious in person; everywhere you go, someone has one of these devices in their possession. With millions of units selling every year, it is no wonder that the device is becoming highly ubiquitous and iconic. Like other Apple products, the iPhone is something that is easily recognized all around the world. The same phone has been selling for over four years now with cosmetic and hardware updates for each year’s new iteration, along with an operating system that is becoming more refined. Since its release in 2007, the iPhone has been a massively successful product for Apple, who has sold more than 100 million units in the iPhone's first four year, including 18.6 million in the first quarter of 2011 (Artman). Other competitors make smartphones that are better than the iPhone in many ways, yet Apple is selling more than ever. Other companies release new phones faster than the yearly refresh of Apple’s iPhones, but the latest isn’t always the greatest. It isn’t the technology that makes the iPhone successful, but rather the cool factor that the device expresses (Mintz).
Technology has become a huge part of everyday life, and people seem to have one great debate and are fighting over which is the best phone, iPhone or Android. The Apple iPhone is a cellular smartphone that was created and is maintained by Apple Inc. Android is another type of smartphone that is accessible to consumers, but the operating system is powered by Google and many different companies produce Android devices. The different operating systems and interfaces have created a long and carried out debate to which was superior. iPhone is the better phone and there are many reasons as to why it is superior to its rival, Android. The iPhone’s sleek and beautiful design has users’ hands fondling the device and never putting it down. The
In this report, I prove that Apple’s iPhone has dominated all other smartphones in the years leading up to 2016. It is the epitome of what a globally recognized product can accomplish when considering how quickly it globalized and the image it provides for those who buy an iPhone. Owning one of these phones is not only a statement, it holds power and value that other smartphones simply cannot top. The company owns the stage when compared to other smartphones, and it’s journey to become the world’s second-largest mobile phone manufacturer is truly incredible. In fact, not only does it lead in technology and phone production, it’s become the largest publicly traded TNC in the world. Everything from its assets to its brand loyalty prove why it has expanded across the globe, and will continue to for many years to come. Apple Inc. has globally expanded by outsourcing nearly every level of its production and became one of the most successful and revolutionary TNC’s in the world, mainly due to the release of the infamous iPhone in 2007.
Apple and Samsung are the two greatest organizations with an industry of the greater part the worldwide cell phone advertise. Consistently, both Apple and Samsung are getting new developments their mobiles, which extraordinarily expands their cell phone deals. Since there is though competition in the present world, Apple created a trend by introducing IPhone to the world, which is one of the best feature smartphone with high security. According to Business Insider, “Though apple is getting more profits and experiencing the first place in the market, then came the competitor Samsung, Samsung introduced the Galaxy S smartphone which made the apple market
Samsung is a South-Korean company and its headquarters is in Samsung Town, Seoul (Samsung, 2014). Samsung is made up of 80 companies together. At present Samsung branches exists in 61 countries. Samsung is one of the world 's leading manufacturer in the Android mobile (smart) phone industry. Samsung after releasing the smart phones in the name of Samsung galaxy series which started with Galaxy Y basic model. Later Samsung released S series which got overwhelmed response all around the world. On 24 February 2014 Samsung released Galaxy S5 which was an immediate and quick successor after Galaxy S4 the previous model. When designing the Galaxy S5 Samsung worked on the drawbacks of the previous models and improved camera quality, running speed, finger print reader, private mode, dust and water resistance (Andrew, 2014). In this analysis I have researched and proved that Samsung organization used Integrated marketing and communications on basis of their target audiences, message strategy and media choices.
Over the last decade, electronic-based companies such as Samsung and Apple have collaborated with cellular-phone carriers, and have studied the average consumer to find endless ways to improve the cellular phone. As a result, the smart phone was born. With their ability to provide users with instant access to communication, entertainment, Internet access, calendar, news, social media, and much more, the smart phone revolutionized and shifted the path of modern technology. In 2006, Apple began this revolution with their release of the iPhone. Being the first proper smart phone, many other companies attempted to mimic the unbeatable features and technology that Apple had included with the iPhone.
The purpose of this essay is to compare, contrast and evaluate the two major competitor companies: Apple and Samsung. This essay begins by discussing the market value of the both companies. It will then turn to discussing the product portfolios of Apple and Samsung, and then examines the service and it concludes by evaluation.
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In 2014 both Apple and Samsung sold a combined total of about 108.2 million units of their products! Samsung sold about 71 million units while on the other hand Apple sold 94.75 million units. For the past few years, the competing and comparison between Apple and Samsung was at its maximum. Fights started between people to prove an idea about which company is the best but they did not know that they were only comparing their smartphone. That is not the only thing a person should concentrate at while comparing two of the biggest multinationals in the world. People should look at the sales of all of the company’s products, their profits and losses, the history of the company, and the reviews of the people about their
As a consultant for Orb Ltd a company who specializes in organizational behavior. I have been asked by the CEO to research areas within organizational behavior on the two examples that I selected, so it can be used for future training.
Smartphone market is fast-moving and very high competitive due to intense competition between two big smartphone producers, Apple and Samsung. At the beginning, Apple dominated this market solely by introducing a new innovative type of smartphone by Steve Jobs that has revolutionized people lifestyle and mobile industry. A few years after launching iPhone, a new fast following competitor, Samsung came into this market, and their sales have outperformed Apple from the year 2011 (According to Chart A1 in Appendix). In term of developing their product, Samsung has created its products by following Apple’s technology since the beginning of producing its smartphone, therefore there are many patent lawsuits between them. Since Steve Job passed away, Apple has continued to develop its core competence, which is an innovation of new type of smartphone that could help them to take back their market share from its rival, Samsung. Nonetheless, the competition between Apple and Samsung will still continue intensively in the future.
With Apple being so far ahead of their competition, the only problem one can foresee in Apple’s future is how long they can sustain such innovation before they plateau. Apple does a phenomenal job at releasing their innovative products before their competition, but if their innovation cannot hold steady, this may lead to changes in demand for their products considerably. This can be seen with their release of the iPhone, the first successful touch screen cellular phone. Although people swarmed to the iPhone when it was first released because of its advanced technology, as the years have passed, other similar designs, including those with android and windows based operating systems, have drawn a considerable portion of the market. A clear representation of Apple’s attempt to regain some of this market can be seen when the iPhone was released to Verizon Wireless’ customers in
Apple Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. was the first of a series of ongoing lawsuits between Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics regarding the design of smartphones and tablet computers; between them, the companies made more than half of smartphones sold worldwide as of July 2012.[1] In the spring of 2011, Apple began litigating against Samsung in patent infringement suits, while Apple and Motorola Mobility were already engaged in a patent war on several fronts.[2] Apple's multinational litigation over technology patents became known as part of the mobile device patent wars: extensive litigation in fierce competition in the global market for consumer
Much research and development goes into the marketing plan for any company. This often requires extensive external and internal environment analysis. When conducting external environmental analysis, a company must consider six factors. These factors include competition, economic growth, political trends, legal issues, advances in technology, and sociocultural trends (Ferrell & Hartline, 2014). I have a strong interest in technology and gadgets. With that being the case, I chose the iPhone as the product and will analyze the six external environmental factors using that. The first external factor to consider is the competition. This involves identifying the main competing companies as well as their strengths and weaknesses. If you are a true fan of Apple and its iPhone, then there is not any real competition. But despite what iPhone fans might believe, Apple does have competition in the smart phone realm. Its biggest competitor is Samsung. Numbers wise, Apple only sells roughly twenty percent of smartphones world-wide with various other competitors selling the remaining eighty percent. But out of the twenty percent that Apple sells, it manages to capture over ninety percent of the market profits. Samsung manages to grab fifteen percent of the market profit (Weiss, 2015). Samsung has experienced several years of disappointing sales which made the competition less stiff than in previous years.
Over the course of the 21st century, these two companies have been fighting it out. They both started small, but fought through the other competition to become what they are now. The owners had to use different methods of advertising and marketing for the business. The advertising and marking had to catch the people’s attention of the product. Along doing this, people viewed these companies differently. Some tend to dislike one company more than the other. The people do this because each company has their upwards and downwards moments. Product is not up to quality that the people would enjoy. Samsung and Apple are similar in products, advertisements, cell phones, and functionality; they then differ in designs, uses of products, and