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co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. He was widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer revolution and for his influential career in the computer and consumer electronics fields. In the late 1970s, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak engineered one of the first commercially successful lines of personal computers, the Apple II series. After losing a power struggle with the board of directors in 1985, Jobs left Apple and founded NeXT, a computer platform development

resigned as CEO of Apple, but remained at the company as chairman of the company's board. A lot has been made of Jobs' aggressive and demanding personality. Fortune wrote that he "is considered one of Silicon Valley's leading egomaniacs." In fact, in 1993, Jobs made Fortune magazine’s list of America’s toughest bosses. He also had over 300 patents from things like keyboards and speakers, to lanyards and packages. Even though Jobs only made one dollar a year as the CEO of Apple, he still is worth

Understanding Apple – SWOT Analysis By Malcolm Manness - November 27, 2012| Tickers: AAPL, XOM, GOOG| 4 Comments Share on emailEmail Share on google_plusonePrint Malcolm is a member of The Motley Fool Blog Network -- entries represent the personal opinions of our bloggers and are not formally edited. Understanding Apple – SWOT Analysis Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) now has the largest market cap of any company. It zoomed past Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM) and never looked back. It

Background This paper presents a case study of Apple Inc. Apple Inc. is a technology based corporation with emphasis on computer software and hardware (MAC and Apps), tablets (IPad), smart phones (IPhone), and mp3 plays, (ITouch). Apple Inc. has grown tremendously over the years and ever since 2001 has expanded its brand and retail stores to over 375 stores/outlets globally. The business has seventy two thousand eight hundred employees in thirty eight countries. Apple Inc. has truly become one of the most

Steve Jobs is the best example of a hero. He was adopted and faced many challenges throughout his life, but he still prevailed on top. Jobs is most famous for being the co-founder of Apple inc. with Steve Wozniak. He changed the way the world would look at technology forever. His revolutionary products include the iPod, iPhone, iPad, Mac and many many others. These products now seem to be dictating modern technology (Biography). Steven Paul Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, in San Francisco, California

Company & Industry Background 2.1 Business Overview Apple, Inc. is a multi-billion dollar company based in Cupertino, California focusing on the design and manufacturing of personal computers, tablets, mobile phones, media and music devices, as well as, the software and services related to these (Richardson, 2015). Today, Apple’s products include the iPod, iPad, Apple Watch, AppleTV, Mac computers and laptops, and iTunes (Apple, 2015). Apple Computer was founded on April 1, 1976 by Steve Jobs and

Samsung vs. Apple - The smartphone wars John Myers COM/156 November 11, 2012 Lawrence W. Daly Samsung vs. Apple - The smartphone wars The Samsung Galaxy S has a better operating system than the Apple iPhone, which is why Apple is suing Samsung over infringement rights; greed took over. The smartphone craze was started in 2007, when the Apple Corporation strove to be the next innovative mind in the electronics world. These innovations were followed by greed and a desire to own the market.

set out to achieve true excellence? Steve Jobs the late CEO from Apple was one of those special few with the talent from the Gods with the determination to drive for excellence. In this paper, I will show how Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple utilized and applied four critical elements to

manufacturer of world, lost its prestigious crown after struggling for last 3 years. The 4 costly mistakes that lead to Nokia losing the battle are described in this article. Nokia launched its Symbian 60 series in year 2002 which initially had a good market response but with the introduction of Apple iOS in 2007 and Android in 2008, the OS race was completely taken over by the two giants. The reasons for collapse of Symbian OS is lack of applications and UI (User Interface). After facing competition

company, the assignment tries to analyse this company in a more economic related approach. But why have I chosen Apple? To tell you the truth, up till a few years ago, to me Apple was just a fruit. It all changed where at one point in time, I was tired with my Windows desktop PC. It was slow, crashed all the time and full of unwanted viruses. A friend of mine suggested buying an Apple desktop computer. To this day I’m still excited of owning this technology as if it is first day that I bought it