Phuong Ta Acct. 201 A Dec. 12, 2013 201 A Writing Assignment: Financial Statement Analysis Compare and contrast: Dell and Apple I. Brief description: Dell vs. Apple Dell, Inc. (Dell) is the third largest Personal Computer (PC) manufacturer in the world. Michael Dell found Dell, Inc. at the age of 19 in 1984 and had become the largest PC supplier to the University of Texas. It was during the beginning of Dell, Inc. that Dell had developed most powerful PC chip.
Apple Inc. Executive Summary • Company History • The company started off as “Apple Computer” by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, a pair of 20-something college dropouts in 1976. Despite a strong brand, rapid growth and high profit in the late 1980s, Apple almost went bankrupt in 1996. Jobs then went to work and transformed “Apple Computers” into “Apple Inc” with innovative and technologically sophisticated non-PC products in 2000’s. By 2010, the company also viewed itself as a “mobile device company”. Apple became the fourth –largest PC vendor in the US market with an 8% share by the end of 2009.
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."
There was no such thing as an iPhone, although we act like we cannot live without our smartphones and tablets as few as ten years ago they didn’t exist. Can you believe it the iPhone turned the electronics world on its head? The iPhone was introduced merely seven years ago June 29th 2007 it seems like it has been around for twenty years. Prior to that the biggest smartphone maker and most successful was Blackberry. The first Blackberry device was introduced eight years prior the RIM 850 which was introduced as a two-pager in Munich, Germany.
A brief history and description about IPhone 4s and its provider: * IPhone 4s – The latest smart phone released by Apple, is an amazing phone with many unique features such as retina screen, impressive 8.0 MP camera or the promising digital phone assistant Siri. And so, in the first opening week, Apple had sole four million units and after a few months,
Now it is the software giant we all have come to know. (Microsoft Corporation, p.1) Today the company is run by Steve Ballmer, who is the CEO. Bill Gates resigned as CEO and became Chairman of Microsoft instead. Microsoft’s annual revenue, based on 2011 figures, is $69.84 billion. Their annual net income is $23.15 billion.
Behavior & Communication Paper: Apple Chevy Mae C. Duque BCOM/230 Business Communication for Accountants December 15, 2014 Bryon K. Johnson Behavior & Communication of Apple Inc. Apple was first founded in 1976 to develop and sell personal computers. Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne incorporated Apple as “Apple Computer, Inc” but was later renamed as “Apple Inc.” in 2007, when it shifted its focus towards consumer electronics. Currently, Apple is the world’s second largest information technology company by revenue, and the world’s third-largest mobile phone maker. They are best-known for their products, the MAC computers, the iPhone smartphones, the iPad tablet computer and the iPod media player. The company has been led by different chief executives over the years that many say it has lost some of its original character.
Innovation Strategy Jose University of Phoenix Strategic Planning & Implementation, STR/581 July 22, 2015 Instructor: Dr. Magda Oquendo-Santiago Innovation Strategy The rules of innovation are charging. Apple Inc. somehow knew this year’s before the rest of the world. Apple Inc. has successfully embedded innovation in its DNA. Apple reported in their financial statements that about $75 million was spent in the development of the iPhone. Apple spent money developing a new innovative product that disrupted and changed the electronics market place.
Lenovo's story begins even before the company was formed in 2005. Half of the company's heritage began in 1981 when International Business Machines, or IBM, introduced its first personal computer, the IBM PC. The other half of Lenovo's heritage was created in 1984 when Chinese businessman Liu Chuanzhi and 10 others formed New Technology Developer Inc., which soon became the Legend Group. In 1990, the very first Legend PC is launched in the market. Legend changes its role from that of an agent for imported computer products into that of a producer and seller of its own branded computer products.
With these corporate owned business you have no room for creativity or curiosity. Most of our large companies today started small and it wouldn't had happened without capitalism. Capitalism advanced our technology because it gave people a chance to create and advance out technology like : cell phones, computers, TV's, wireless internet and others. On of the most successful business that started off small was “Microsoft Work’s”. It started off in a small town and eventually works its way on every computer in the world.