Apple Inc. Defensive or Cyclical?
What is the type of the stock of Apple Inc.? We acquired some hints from these graphs.
This is a graph for 3 years from February 2008 to November 2010. The 3 lines which are blue, red, and green represent Nasdaq, S&P 500 and Apple Inc. As we can see, Apple Inc moved together with other two types of index even though the stock price was different. For ex
2. Impacts of I-Phone's appearance on the Korean domestic mobile phone market
iPhone opened up a new era of domestic smartphone market by expanding the market for the smartphone.
1) Immediately after iPhone was introduced into the market, the sales of smartphone increased from below 3% to 18.9%. So smartphones account for a huge portion of domestic mobile phone market. It means that iPhone re
Apple could do well and couldn’t, so they could concentrate on designing and developing OS for their products, outsourcing many other activities.
4) Sensitivity to Member Needs
Steven Jobs want his employees to call himself as CLO(Chief Listening Officer). This shows that he emphasizes employees’ individual autonomy and capability, and by communicating with them, he could lead Apple to al
Apples’ Macintosh, operating-systems is highly affected by the network effect. Therefore, it is very important that which system or standard does majority of people use.
However, nowadays most major and competitive operating-systems companies are also focusing on contents that can be provided. Apple was the first company to start this competition. If one can develop a high-quality contents t
Currently Apple dominates the international mp3 player market with iPods taking up 70% of the pie. When it was first introduced in 2001 with a $400 price tag, it sold over 125 thousand units the first year and within 5 years Apple sold 42 million ipods. iPod related products such as covers, skins, ear phones alone make a billion dollar market for Apple. And yet it only takes up about 20% of its t