Google Vs. Apple Inc.

Google Inc., American search engine company founded in 1998 by Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Google handled 70 percent of worldwide online search requests, placing it at the heart of most Internet users’ experience. Even though Google’s essential core business is search service, it now offers more than 50 percent Internet services and products from Gmail and online document creation to software for mobile phones and tablet computers. Google successfully maintained its core competence meanwhile expanded its business to advertisement and application three major core businesses. Its success in market levitates Google’s growth by acquiring other tech companies as a way of horizontal integration. For example, its 2012 acquisition of Motorola Mobility put it in the position to sell hardware in the form of mobile phones. Google’s broad product portfolio and size make it one of the top influential conglomerate companies in the high-tech market place. Google plays a very vital role in ICT ecosystem and it is one of the forces that enhance the growth of entire ICT ecosystem. For further illustrating the ICT ecosystem, I chose Apple and Comcast as device and Internet infrastructure firm to compare and contrast against Google.

Google Search is the most popular search engine in the world, and just by that has an enormous advantage in information markets. Google has unprecedented access to what people are thinking about at any given moment, information which is extremely valuable to advertisers and marketers. Google also is also an extremely well established company, with its massive revenue allowing it to support its extremely robust infrastructure. Google has massive and modern data centers all over the world, and continues to invest into more infrastructure, including data centers and the new Google Fiber in the United States. Googles massive revenue also allows it to branch off into more innovative pursuits without having to worry too much about funding. Google can pursue expensive and difficult projects that generate little to no revenue for a very long time, if the company believes that the investment will be worth it in the end. Examples of this include Google's Self driving cars, and the aforementioned mentioned Google

Apple’s is quite the story. Most people don’t realize this, but Apple has been around for decades.

“420 Billion dollars is the total value of Apple’s shares — more than the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of all but the world’s richest 20 countries. It ranks just below Switzerland (£451 billion), and is £17 billion bigger than Argentina”(Poulter). Apple Inc. is the most profitable and valuable company in the entire world, with last year selling over 75.4 million iphones. All of these numbers are jaw dropping, but, none of them would exist if it weren’t for Steve Jobs and his excellent implication of new and innovative trends in popular technological fields. Steve Jobs was CEO and original founder of Apple Inc. along with his partner Steve Wozniak. Together they created a technological superpower rivaling that of Microsoft, Samsung, Intel, and

In recent months, there has been numerous accounts where law and business intersect. One of the most recent issues was the Apple vs FBI feud.

Thesis Statement: The Apple Corporation exceeds competing companies in product sales because of the company’s high recognition as a top selling brand, along with the dependability of its product and the technological innovations it consistently provides for consumers.

It became available on January 5, 2010 and uses the Android open source mobile operating system

The resolution disappointed consumer rights groups and Google rivals such as Microsoft, which had lodged complaints with regulators in the hope of legal action that would split up or at least hobble the internet's most powerful company. (Timberg, 2001)

Our analysis of Apple Inc. will incorporate the general overview of the company and how it records it revenues. We will observe how they make an honest effort to be within compliance of all accounting standards according to the Financial Accounting Standards Board for recording and disclosure of its income. Apple’s leading competitor, Google Inc., will also be examined to see whether they are comparable to Apple and still within compliance of the Securities and Exchange Commission and FASB for revenue recognition. Apple takes on design, development and marketing of personal computers, portable digital music players, and media devices that exceed the reach of everyday needs. The company also

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

With a company as prosperous as Apple, it’s no surprise that most people already know quite a bit about iPhones and Apple’s other products. They are constantly shown in movies, music videos, and even in real life, and my own iPhone 5C is no exception.

Executive Summary: The purpose of this paper is to analyze Apple’s financial standings. Apple is currently one of the biggest smart phone, tablet, and computer producers in the world. For the last 10 years they have successfully produced new phones which outsell their competitors. Apple has continued to show year over year growth, which has made it a wise investment for investors looking to add to their business portfolio. We will be using their previous years reports to make an in-depth analysis of the Apple Corporation. By using various financial reports, we will determine Apple’s financial stability to determine whether Apple will be a wise short term or long term investments.

Apple and Microsoft are the two largest firms in the industry of consumer electronics and computer manufacture. The two companies tend to have numerous similarities and differences. Microsoft and Apple simultaneously initiated their corporate structure. Currently, they are the best-earning top innovators and major rivals in the market, and their products are globally most utilized. This paper evaluates similarities and differences between Microsoft and Apple by exploring their structure, products, and overall success.

We chose to research Apple Incorporated, one of the most innovative companies of our generation. It is safe to say that nearly every one in the US and many foreign countries have used or at least heard of Apple products. We will be looking at the macroeconomic variables that impact Apple’s business as well as how the current developments in the industry have impacted Apple’s financials and we will also look at how Apple competes with other firms in the same industry.

Nowadays, Apple has positioned itself to be an innovator in the personal computer industry and Apple has developed by offering modern products compared to its competitors. According to Apple’s mission statement last year, “Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App store, and is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices with iPad.” (Business Management,