This document discusses Apple's corporate strategy as seen through its development and success of the iPod and iPad products. It describes how Apple undertook a systematic evaluation of product options before selecting music players, launching the iPod in 2001. The iPod was highly successful, driving significant revenue, profit, and share price growth. Apple later leveraged the iPod's success through the launch of the iPad in 2010, which has become the dominant brand for tablet devices through Apple's focus on design, ease of use, apps, and ecosystem. The document examines how Apple has achieved ongoing growth and market dominance through innovative products and premium pricing strategies.
6. Apple looking for a digital consumer device
Undertakes a systematic evaluation
of alternative product options
Video
Games
DVD players and recorders
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8. Launches the iPod
“Music on the move”
“1000 tunes in your pocket”
“so why music, we all love music
It’s a huge market and
nobody has got it right”
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9. Music
ticks all
the boxes
using
3D market
profile
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18. Sales growth
gets 3rd
lease of life
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19. Time ...........
Note : [Share price = Earnings(EPS) x PE rating] ; [PE rating (f) Growth Rate]
and : [PEG ratio = PE / Growth rate] Hence rating for high growth stocks falls over time
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