Apple Computer, Inc.: Maintaining the Music Business While Introducing Iphone and Apple Tv Case Study

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BUSS499 Apple Computer, Inc.: Maintaining the Music Business While Introducing IPhone and Apple TV Case Study 1. Perform an analysis of the social / demographic, technological, economic, environmental / geographic, and political / legal / governmental segments to understand the general environment facing Great Lakes. Describe how Great Lakes will be affected by each of these external factors. Great Lakes has so many environmental pillars standing in their. Through the firm's evolution it found its most profit bearing resources was the production of lead additives. Lead additives were and are used in automotive gasoline fuel and has in the past few decades had policies placed upon its production banning it from developed countries like the United States of America. There are still developing nations who do not have the unleaded gasoline refineries nor the automobile population to support switching to a unleaded fuel. Great Lakes faces many ethical and governmental external factors. The production of Lead additives causes hazardous short-term and long-term health conditions. However, developed countries like the United States have had time in using these hazardous chemicals to rise to an economical level where it could do without and make the switch to safer and not as hazardous alternatives. These developed nations knew the risks as do those who are currently developing but still used lead additives to advance. Is it ethical to produce and sell harmful materials to developing countries or is it unfair to deny these developing nations the same chance to rise up in their economical levels as did the current developed nations of today? If Great Lakes were to stop producing lead additives for developing countries it would devastate Their profits and strike a hefty financial wound into the heart of their

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