Apple Inc. Documentary
- 2. Content: • Steve Jobs • Company Profile • Apple Store • Company History • Legal Structure • Vision & Mission Statement • Value & Strategies • Core competencies • Market share • SWOT Analysis
- 3. Short Introduction Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services. It is considered one of the Big Four tech companies along with Amazon, Google, and Facebook. The company's hardware products include the iPhone smartphone, the iPad tablet computer, the Mac personal computer, the iPod portable media player, the Apple Watch smartwatch, the Apple TV digital media player, the AirPods wireless earbuds and the HomePod smart speaker. Apple's software includes the macOS, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and tvOS operating systems, the iTunes media player, the Safari web browser. Its online services include the iTunes Store, the iOS App Store, Mac App Store, Apple Music, Apple TV+, iMessage, and iCloud. Other services include Apple Store, Genius Bar, AppleCare, Apple Pay, Apple Pay Cash, and Apple Card.
- 4. • born of Feb. 24, 1955 • dropped out university after just one term • started working at a video game manufacturer • founded apple on 1977 but left it on 1985 • started the company Next Inc. * introduced a desktop computer, how but failed. • Pixar animation studios was formed on 1986 * sold the company to the Walt Disney Co. for $7.4B in stock on 2006. • On Aug. 2011, he resigned as the CEO but still continued to work as Chairman of the Board.
- 5. STEVE JOBS AS A PERSON AND AS A LEADER • Employees describe him as a tyrant, that they feared meeting on the elevator • Known for publicly expressing his opinion about competitors & former colleagues. • Perfectionist • He was a skilled speaker. • He had a high standard in everything and attention to details. • A Charismatic and Authocratic Leader
- 7. Name Apple Incorporation Former CEO Steve Jobs Current CEO Tim Cook Revenue 258.5 billion USD Area Served World Wide Headquarter California, United States Total number of employee 132,000
- 8. Apple Store is a chain of retail stores owned and operated by Apple Inc. The stores sell various Apple products, including Mac personal computers, iPhone smartphones, iPad tablet computers, iPod portable media players, Apple Watch smartwatches, Apple TV digital media players, software, and selected third-party accessories. The first Apple Stores were originally opened as two locations in May 2001 by then-CEO Steve Jobs, after years of attempting but failing store-within-a-store concepts. Seeing a need for improved retail presentation of the company's products, he began an effort in 1997 to revamp the retail program to get an improved relationship to consumers, and hired Ron Johnson in 2000. Jobs relaunched Apple's online store in 1997, and opened the first two physical stores in 2001. The media initially speculated that Apple would fail, but its stores were highly successful, by passing the sales numbers of competing nearby stores and within three years reached US$1 billion in annual sales, becoming the fastest retailer in history to do so. Over the years, Apple has expanded the number of retail locations and its geographical coverage, with 506 stores across 25 countries worldwide as of 2018.[2] Strong product sales have placed Apple among the top- tier retail stores, with sales over $16 billion globally in 2011.
- 9. Apple founder Steve Jobs Steve Woznaik Friends
- 10. History ❖ How Was Apple Founded Jobs and Wozniak met up again in 1975 at the Homebrew Computer Club, a local club for computer enthusiasts. Inspired by the DIY attitude, Wozniak went off and created his own home computer. This is a modest way of describing a game-changing creation; Woz's computer was the first to connect to a television, generating characters with a typewriter-inspired keyboard and successfully displaying them on the TV screen. Unknowingly, he had created the earliest archetype for what the common home PC would later become. His employer, Hewlett-Packard, also didn't know this, and rejected the design several times. Jobs, on the other hand, saw potential in the computer immediately. He convinced Wozniak that they could make a business, and after selling some of their belongings for cash, they and Jobs's co-worker at Atari, Ronald Wayne, formed Apple Computers. Wozniak's computer became known as the Apple I. Jobs made a deal with local computer store The Byte Shop to sell them, and the manager of the store had to confirm that to an electronics distributor before they could get their parts. Ultimately, 200 Apple I computers were created
- 11. 1976 The original Apple Computer, also known as the Apple I, that kicked everything off in 1976. It was designed and built by Apple co- founder Steve Wozniak. Wozniak’s friend Steve Jobs had the idea of selling the computer and the Apple I was born. 1977 Mark 2 of Apple’s computer - the Apple II - was a much more commercial product and came with its own case. It had a MOS Technology processor running at just 1MHz with 4KB of RAM. Today’s iPhones have processors running at 1,800 times the clock speed with 500,000 times more RAM.
- 12. 1983 The Apple Lisa computer was groundbreaking, with an integrated screen, user interface and Apple’s first mouse. But at $10,000 (almost $20,000 in today’s money), the Lisa was never going to fly off the shelves. 1984 This is what was classed as a ‘portable’ computer in 1984. The Apple IIc could be carried about, but had no battery, which meant a power socket needed to be close by (how things change but stay the same).
- 13. 1984 Portable Apple computers weren’t the only thing new in 1984, the first Macintosh computer was also released as the first ‘affordable’ computer with a graphical user interface selling for $2,495 at the time. The Mac was born. 1985 Following Steve Wozniak’s departure, then chief executive John Sculley attempted to push Steve Jobs out from his position as chairman of the board and head of the Macintosh division. Jobs attempted a coup d’état of his own, but when the plan was leaked Jobs resigned to start a new computer company called NeXT. Tim Berners-Lee is said to have invented the web on a NeXT computer at Cern. Jobs also funded the spin-out of Pixar, which was later sold to Disney.
- 14. 1991 Apple’s first true laptop as we know them today, the PowerBook 100 (right), was designed and manufactured by Sony for Apple. It cost $2,500 at the time. For size comparison, the machine on the left is a 2012 13in retina MacBook Pro. 1993 Before the iPhone was a twinkle in Steve Jobs’ eye, the Newton Message pad was Apple’s first attempt at a pocket computer. It took 6.5 years to develop, had the first real handwriting recognition and coined the term ‘personal digital assistant’ or PDA. It only lasted for five years but the team that developed the software for it eventually went on to develop the first iPod operating system. 1993 Before the iPhone was a twinkle in Steve Jobs’ eye, the Newton Message pad was Apple’s first attempt at a pocket computer. It took 6.5 years to develop, had the first real handwriting recognition and coined the term ‘personal digital assistant’ or PDA. It only lasted for five years but the team that developed the software for it eventually went on to develop the first iPod operating system.
- 15. 1994 The first PowerPC Apple computer, this one with a 66MHz processor, the Power Macintosh 6100 paved the way for a whole series of PowerPC Apple computers that were only replaced with the switch to Intel chips in mid-2000s. 1997 Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997 after the company bought Jobs’ NeXT and integrated its software expertise. Jobs became CEO when then chief executive Gilbert Amelio, who had only been in the job just over a year, was ousted. Jobs phased out licensing of Mac OS, cancelled several projects including the Newton and began the company’s return to profitability with the help of Tim Cook, who joined as SVP of operations in 1998. 1998 The iMac was the computer that arguably made Apple a household name before the unveiling of the iPhone nine years later. It was Jony Ive and Steve Jobs’ baby, and was aimed at the low end, internet-enabled market complete with a 56Kb modem.
- 16. 1999 Following the iMac the iBook was the next step for Apple aimed at the mass market. It had a number of firsts for Apple, including now standard wireless networking - Apple’s Wi-Fi-based AirPort. The iBook, iMac and PowerBook sat alongside the Power Mac desktop, immediately behind Jobs in this picture. 2001 Apple dumped its legacy operating system wholesale and switched to a new incompatible version with the launch of OS X 10.0 Cheetah, which went on to form the basis of not only the current version of OS X 1o.11 El Capitan, but iOS, which runs the iPhone and iPad. 2001 The product that would completely change the face of Apple, from a computer company into a devices company, the iPod was born in 2001. It had 5GB of space, a small LCD screen and wasn’t revolutionary, but was smaller than most and was marketed well, eventually dominating the market. The first iPod was Mac-only and had a physical wheel that moved to scroll.
- 17. 2006 Apple dumped PowerPC processors for the faster, more energy efficient x86 chips from Intel in 2006. The iBook, PowerBook and Power Mac were out, replaced by the MacBook (pictured), the MacBook Pro and Mac Pro, which still form the basis for Apple’s computers today. The iMac survived with just its chips changed over in its now familiar thin, flatscreen design. 2007 Following the success of the iPod, the iPhone launched Apple into a new age. It turned the company into a powerhouse, shipping with 4GB of storage, a 3.5in capacitive multi-touch screen and 620MHz Samsung processor. The iPhone took 2.5 years to develop and was arguably the start of the internet-connected, portable computing age we live in now, even if it have rivals that did things first and didn’t even support native apps for a year. 2008 The MacBook Air was the biggest change in Apple’s laptop line for years, and invented a whole new category of computers called ‘ultrabooks’ by Intel. The first MacBook Air had a slow, tiny hard drive, slow processor and relatively poor battery life but it heralded a new era of thin and light laptops.
- 18. 2010 Running with the success of the iPhone, the iPad attempted to reinvent tablet computers as finger-based mobile devices rather than full PCs. The iPad’s origins hark back to the 1993 Newton when a prototype tablet was made but never released and was conceived in its current form before the iPhone but delayed until after the release of Apple’s smartphone. 2011 After a long battle with pancreatic cancer, Apple’s founder and driving force died at the age of 56. It was a turning point for the company. Tim Cook, former head of operations and interim CEO took over as Jobs stood down six weeks before he died. 2014 Apple bought Dr Dre and Jimmy Iovine’s Beats, which made headphones and ran a music service, for $3bn in 2014. The headphones continue to be sold, but Beats Music morphed into the Apple Music subscription service, with radio station Beats One the lasting remnants of the brand.
- 19. 2015 Apple’s first new product line since the iPad and Steve Jobs’ death, the Apple Watch quickly became the most popular smartwatch on the market outselling rivals from Samsung, LG, Sony and Pebble 2014 Apple struck a deal with U2 to release the band’s latest album called Songs of Innocence for free to every user of Apple’s iTunes. album was automatically added to users’ iPhones causing a backlash, an apology and eventually a way to remove it.
- 22. Vision & Mission Statement ❖ Apple is committed to bringing the best personal computing experience to students, educators, creative professional and consumers around the world through it’s innovative hardware, software and internet offering ❖ Apple designs Macs, The best personal computers in the world. Along with OSX, iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple lead the digital music revolution with its iPod and iTunes online store. Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and Appstore, and is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.
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