ITunes Store

Section I – Organizational History and overview In 2007, Jobs told a crowd at the Macworld Expo that Apple would now be known as Apple Inc., and not Apple Computer, Inc. The company had moved from producing only computers to offering the iPod, iTunes and more. That year, Apple also debuted its widely successful touch screen Smartphone and the less popular Apple TV. In early 2009, Jobs left Apple for a short time to undergo a liver transplant. He returned later in the year. In 2010, Apple launched

innovative thinkers of the 20th century. He created and developed a strategic plan that allowed continued success long after he was gone. Jobs started with the first home based computer then he was the driving force behind products such as the iPod, iTunes and the Macintosh operating system. He helped set a standard of excellence for Apple Inc. to continue building upon. Being innovative has been Apple’s claim to fame. Taking risk and giving consumers products that are not only cool but meets a person’s

software, online services, and personal computers(Wikipedia, 2014). It is best-known for its hardware products such as Mac line of computers, iPod, iPhone, iPad. Its online services include iTunes Store, iCloud and App Store. The consumer software by Apple include the OS X and iOS operating systems, the iTunes media browser, Safari web browser and the iLife and iWork creativity and productivity suites. The company was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne in 1976, to develop and sell

on CEOs Steve Jobs was an entrepreneur, co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. As the CEO of the company, Jobs covered the development of the iMac, iPod, iPhone, and iPad, and on the services side the company’s Apple Retail Stores, iTunes store, and the App store. The success of these products under Jobs provided stable years of financial return, and propelled Apple to become the world’s most valuable publically traded company. The reinvigoration of the company is regarded by commentators as

and they began to look into the music industry as there next big idea. In 2001, the IPod was born and it swept the music industry by storm. They had invented the new way to buy store and play music. The new way to digitally create, share, store, and play music was in the format of MP3. This format makes it very easy to store the music and play it back without any loss of the musical content. MP3 stands for MP is short for the Motion Pictures Experts Group (MPEG) and the 3 is for the layer that the

Today, more than 55 million households are owners of at least one iPhone, iPad, iPod or Mac computer (Brashares). Steve Jobs was an American technology entrepreneur and inventor. He was the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. and CEO and largest shareholder of Pixar Animation Studios (Freidman). He made a remarkable difference in technology and should be remembered as the man who shaped technology to was it has become today. To this day Apple is by far the biggest competition

(Apple Inc. Company Information, 2017). Founded in 1976 by two college dropouts, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, Apple opened its first retail store in 2001. Ron Wayne has also been given credit a third Apple founder. Apple's product lineup has expanded beyond the Macintosh line of computers and iPod to include the iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch, iTunes, App Store and other devices and accessories (Apple Inc. Company Information, 2017). A monopolistically competitive company, Apple’s main rivals

There are many roles a manager has within an organization. Henry Mintzberg explains ten specific managerial roles most commonly seen within organizations. Performing this role is the basis of a manager's job. The best manager is the one who perform his roles in a professional way and face the complications and challenges in a huge market, where several competitors already exist, however Steve Jobs in Apple Inc. proved himself and set an example in the world. Six managerial roles performed by Steve

Case study # 2: The apple of your “I” This case study will describe why Apple Inc. is a very successful company and has become the second largest public company in the world. It all started in the 1980's when Apple started producing home computers. This helped those who were full-time students and workers by also producing a particular computer, the Macintosh computer. However, in 1985 Steve Jobs lost against the Apple board, and because of the unfortunate negative outcome of the meeting, Steve

Steve Jobs Steve Jobs was amazing and he started one of the most successful companies ever. His company was extremely successful from the beginning, and set the way for technology. Steve Jobs was incredibly smart, achieved numerous accomplishments, and he will always be remembered for his company. Steve Jobs had a very interesting childhood. On February 24, 1955, in San Francisco, Steve was born to his biological parents Jamie Schieble and Jon Jandai, but was he was adopted by Clara and Paul