Conclusion 9. References 1.Introduction This report is about the Apple Inc. Company and covers the budgetary and financial plans and achievements of the company. The Apple Inc. Company designs, manufactures and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, and portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software. The company’s products and services include Iphone, Ipad, Mac, Ipod, Apple TV, professional software such as iOS and Mac OS X, it also delivers and sells digital content and applications through the Itunes Store, APP store, IBooks store and Mac App store. The markets for the Company’s products and services are highly competitive and the Company is confronted by aggressive competition in all areas of its business.
In this journal, Drew discuss the goals of IT security to protect the use of mobile devices in CPA firms and other businesses. His article outlines cybersecurity threats on the mobile and cloud fronts and lists steps that accounting firms, individuals CPAs, and other can take to reduce their risk of suffering a devastating data breach. Drew discusses how the rate of smartphones and tablets sales increase and how it reached 144.4 million units in the first quarter. With the growth of smartphones and tablet increasing, the risk of malicious software have increased. “One of the biggest risks involves employees or executives downloading personally identifying or confidential client information to their personal smartphones or tablets”.
While these products are highly successful Microsoft continue to push the envelope to create and improve products that are synchronized with tablets, PCs, game systems, and phones in businesses and consumers to increase their productivity. Identify Strategic Initiative. Microsoft
(Xtreme Labs, 2011). This goes to show that the business was immensely successful during the span of three years by creating a suboptimal solution. Furthermore, the revenue for the company in 2009 was just over 3 million dollars which was a growth rate of over 380% from 2007. (Profit Magazine, 2012) This seems quite understandable due to the rate at which the mobile sector and technologies have been increasing with the recent introduction of tablets in the last few years. Industry Size/Structure The development of mobile apps within its industry is relatively new.
Marketing Techniques In recent years Apple has diversified their business massively, increasing their sales and effectively battling, but edging it, with Samsung for the phone market. Apple has penetrated the market by using network companies such as O2, Orange and 3. When you sign a contract with either of the network providers, most commonly a 24 month contract will see you paying a monthly fee for your service. When penning the contract you will see yourself with an iPhone 3GS… 24 Months later the provider will give you the option to upgrade to a better device, this will see yourself with an iPhone 4S. What I have just described is the process of getting an upgrade at the end of your contract, this is how Apple penetrate the market as when you upgrade, you will most likely go with a newer version of your old phone as you are used to the operating system and how the phone works.
Global Environments - Apple Inc. ACC/300 March 30, 2015 Global Environments Apple Inc. is a large company that became incorporated in California in 1979. It was founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. According to Farfan (2015), the mission statement of Apple Inc. is, "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 has recently introduced iPad 2 which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices."
The ASOS annual reports enable us to find out if they have reaching this objective. It shows us that ASOS has increased its sales revenue from £339,691 in March 2011 to £494,957in March 2012. This tells us that the sales revenue of ASOS has increased over the past year. The website also enables them to achieve their objective of sales revenue because they only sell online which means that the website is theirs only means of increasing sales revenue. However, this may also go against them because without stores there sales will be lower than they could be if they did own shops.
Quality refers to how well designed and made a product is and the expectations that people have of a business will influence the way that the products are designed and created for customers. Apple is known as a top technology manufacturing company due to majority of people having mobile phones being iPhones. Apple customers have high standards for quality expectations for new products. Because of the advances in technology, Apple needs to upgrade and adjust current models of their products to satisfy the needs of customers’ expectations. Every year or so Apple will bring out new models of their iPhone, iPods and laptops that live up to the hype of the customers’ expectations.
Soon after, the company raised more capital from their existing investor Bessemer Venture Partners as well as from Northwest Capital and US Venture Partners. Business was progressing well and in the quarter before September 1997, the company had revenues of $6.4 million with 3 big customers, and an offer to purchase from CellTech. Hansen planned for the company to be able to go public within 2 years if it gained more customers since it was too risky to depend on just 4 accounts, and maintained more stable revenues. Overall the company had raised $9 million in 4 rounds of fundraising. 2.
What a few of the functions is: Sales and marketing do is that it works on a message that will generate leads, bring brand awareness for example there has been a lot of marketing and sales in the new iPhone 5. This helps the company get know around the globe which interests customers as well as potential shareholders which helps it make a large, increasing profit. What in ICT function does in Apple Inc. is that is controls IT maintenance it helps to obtain as well as installing hardware and software, it manages the LAN and WAN networks and lastly it helps other ICT users with their PC’s. With this it helps the business