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MBA Semester -1
Group-D
Introduction
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Definition of industrey
Introduction to apple
APPLE HISTORY
Timeline
Definition of Industry
Introduction to apple
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APPLE HISTORY
January 3, 1977 Wayne sold his share of the company back to Jobs and
Wozniak for $800. Mike Markkula provided essential business expertise
and funding of $250,000 during the incorporation of apple.
The Apple II was introduced on April 16, 1977 at the first West Coast
Computer Faire (Wikipedia, 2009). By the end of the 1970s, Apple had
a staff of computer designers and a production line. The Apple II was
succeeded by the Apple III in May 1980 as the company competed with
IBM and Microsoft in the business and corporate computing
market.1981–1985: Lisa and Macintosh
1983 and became the first personal computer sold to the public with a
GUI, but was a commercial failure due to its high price tag and limited
software titlesThe Macintosh 128K, the first Macintosh computer in
1984, Apple next launched the Macintosh. Its debut was announced by
the now famous $1.5 million television commercial, Apple's sustained
growth during the early 1980s was partly due to its leadership in the
education sector, attributed to their adaptation of the programming
language LOGO, used in many schools with the Apple II. The drive into
education was accentuated in California with the donation of one Apple
II and one Apple LOGO software package to each public school in the
state.(wikipedia,2009)
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However it was on October 23, 2001, Apple introduced the iPod digital
music player which till today is the market leader in portable music
players and in May the same year Apple opened its first official Apple
Retail Stores in Virginia and California. In 2002 Apple purchased
Nothing Real for their advanced digital compositing application Shake
And in 2003, they launched Apple's iTunes Store; offering online music
downloads which was integration with the iPod, (Wikipedia, 2009)
The iPod
In October 2001, Apple introduced its first iPod portable digital audio
player. The iPod started as a 5 gigabyte player capable of storing
around 1000 songs. Since then it has evolved into an array of products
including the Mini (now discontinued), the iPod Touch, the Shuffle, the
iPod Classic, the Nano, and the iPhone. As of January 2010, the largest
storage capacity for an iPod was 160 gigabytes.
Apple the very next year in July launched its Apple Store to sell third-
party applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch (Wikipedia, 2009)
desktop computer, video recorders, the iPod and iTunes, flat-panel TVs,
This report aims to provide insight into the patterns and characteristics
of potentially disruptive technologies
an opportunity. The report applies this knowledge and asks the all-
important question: Which consumer
Safari for Mac, Windows, iPhone™ and iPod® touch are all built on
Apple’s WebKit, the world’s fastest and most advanced browser
engine. Apple developed WebKit as an open source project to create
the world’s best browser engine and to advance the adoption of
modern web standards. Most recently, WebKit led the introduction of
HTML 5 and CSS 3 web standards and is known for its fast, modern
code-base. The industry’s newest browsers are based on WebKit
including Google Chrome, the Google Android browser, the Nokia
Series 60 browser and Palm webOS.
Full History Search, where users search through titles, web addresses
and the complete text of recently viewed pages to easily return to sites
they’ve seen before;
Tabs on Top, for better tabbed browsing with easy drag-and-drop tab
management tools and an intuitive button for opening new ones;
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Full Page Zoom, for a closer look at any website without degrading the
quality of the site’s layout and text;
Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the
Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the
Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation
with its award-winning computers, OS X operating system and iLife and
professional applications. Apple is also spearheading the digital media
revolution with its iPod portable music and video players and iTunes
online store, and has entered the mobile phone market with its
revolutionary iPhone.
At the moment only two modules of the Quickoffice for iPhone suite are
available, namely the $12.99 Quicksheet and $3.99 Quickoffice Files
(iTunes links). Later the package will be complemented by Quickword.
Microsoft has its long, ugly antitrust history to thank for that. Microsoft
was originally supposed to be broken up into pieces after it was
branded a monopoly by a federal judge in November 1999. But Bill
Gates won a reprieve in November 2001, after an appeals court
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For starters, Apple can now do all sorts of things with its operating
system that are off-limits for Microsoft. In January 2001, it introduced
Apple iTunes, software for buying and managing multimedia content
that is now baked into every Apple. In January 2003, it introduced a
browser, dubbed Safari. In 2005, Apple released a version of its OS X
operating system with a slick, built-in search feature dubbed Spotlight.
"They're the only company that actually forced Microsoft off of the
operating system because of their integrated Safari browser," says Rob
Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group, referring to the latest
version of Apple's OS X software.
Better still, from Apple's point of view, Microsoft has to keep its doors
wide open to whatever Apple product Jobs cares to give away. That's
helped Apple's iTunes software crush Microsoft's alternative among
users of the Windows operating system. "It's like giving a glass of ice
water to somebody in hell," quipped Jobs at this month's D: All Things
Digital conference in Carlsbad, Calif.
The consumer technology shift away from home office and into the
living room is one of our three core theses for 2006 (see our industry
note published yesterday, titled “Technology Innovation Drives Positive
Bias: AAPL, EMC and Dell Top Picks”). Industry analyst’s thinks Apple is
hands down the best positioned to capitalize — from an ease of use,
industrial design and digital content perspective. After pulling together
data points from Apple headquarters and a statistically significant
survey of 2,500 US consumers, it is being believe market share and
new product opportunities accelerate even more than we expected in
2006. Many rating companies maintain Overweight on AAPL shares and
increase our price target to $90 (from $70).
Experts continue to believe demand outstrips supply for iPods and that
Apple is doing the best it can to supply both its own and traditional
retail stores. The US consumers we surveyed plan to buy more iPod
and related products than any other electronics category. To hone in
on this point, more people plan to buy an iPod this holiday season than
a cell phone. Also interesting, more people plan to buy iTunes gift
cards this season than non-iPod branded MP3 players. What’s more, of
those planning to purchase an iPod (either as a gift or for themselves)
this holiday season, only a small percentage would purchase another
brand of MP3 player if a store was out of their desired model.
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Interestingly, the iPod installed base appears set to skew towards the
higher function iPod video. Demand for non-Music digital content also
expands beyond just the iPod customer base. Experts believe this
provides evidence that management of digital content in the living
room is importantto consumers and could drive incremental demand
this coming year.
Apple introduced its new computer at a computer show in May 1977 and received
hundreds of orders in just a few days. Within a year, sales of the Apple II hit $1
million. Early in 1978, Apple added an optional floppy disc drive. A disc worked
better than cassette tapes for storing information. The disc gave users an easy
way to share data with each other, and programmers began writing new software
on the discs.
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TECHNOLOGY ROCKSTAR:
Linus Torvalds
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TECHNOLOGY ROCKSTAR:
Linus Torvalds
Based on Linus Torvalds' contribution to CHM's oral history collection.
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http://www.apple.com
http://www.scribd.com/doc/7395794/Apple11