...develop an awareness of the factors that may affect strategic planning and decision making of Palm Inc. Strengths 1. Years of experience For Palm, years of experience at software development, marketing and device development are really a great strength. Palm start in 1992, 18 years let Palm experienced a lot of technological change, also made Palm earn a lot of experience. They know many marketing skills, they can avoid mistakes from previous products. So experience is one of the most important strength a company should have. 2. Loyal customers Customer is God. Everyone knows this truth. If you grasp customers’ hearts, you win. Palm is a company of 18 years history, so Palm has many loyal customers. Like Apple, if you get used to the IOS system, you can not get out of it, so the same as Palm OS system. Palm still have this part of people. 3. Value A company’s value comes from two parts, one is intangible value, another is tangible value. After those years, Palm already had its value. Intangible value such as reputation can make public believe in Palm. 4. Controlled both hardware and software 5. Success in Treo product line Palm got a hug success in 2006, it’s a good signal for Palm. Treo smart phones let Palm earn 30 percent of market share in the United States and bring Palm back to life. Having this success experience, Palm can learn from it and come out more great ideas and make them come true. Weakness 1. Lack of innovation •...
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...selling fish, fruits and vegetables to Asia and eventually expanded to manufacturing, machinery and sales operations. Over several decades, the company diversified and grew to become an international conglomerate, which included Samsung Electronics. Samsung’s Electronic business operates in several areas such as visual displays, appliances, health and medical, mobile communications, memory, etc. that generate revenue close to US$100 billion in 2012, making it the world’s largest technology company based on revenue. Samsung Electronics is one of a few major players in the fast-moving smartphone industry. This industry is parsed into two primary segments, the hardware (handset/phones), and the (OS) operating systems that run them. The key issue facing the company today is whether it should enter the OS market for itself, or keep existing relationships and look for other ways to gain strategic advantages in the market. There are several aspects to the environment that faced the smartphone industry. The social and cultural phenomenon where over the last decade consumers have been using technology that allows them to stay connected and communicate anytime and anywhere. Growth has been explosive with the increasing number of mobile phones users around the world. This presents an enormous opportunity for handset manufacturers, software developers and their entire supply chain. Advances in technology over the last five or six years in the industry has allowed significant improvements and...
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... [C.S.E. 1707372 Department] ABSTRACT iOS is Apple's mobile operating system developed originally for the iPhone, and later deployed on the iPod Touch and iPad as well. It is derived from Mac OS X, with which it shares the Darwin foundation, and is therefore a Unix-like operating system, by nature. In iOS, there are four abstraction layers: the Core OS layer, the Core Services layer, the Media layer, and the Cocoa Touch layer. The operating system uses roughly 500 megabytes of the device's storage. Version 4, announced in April 2010, introduced multitasking as well as several business-oriented features, including encryption for email and attachments. At the WWDC 2010 keynote on June 7, 2010, Apple announced that iPhone OS had been renamed iOS. Apple licenses the trademark for "iOS" from Cisco Systems (who own IOS), the same company with which Apple had earlier settled a dispute over the "iPhone" trademark. iOS 4 was released on June 21, 2010, three days before the iPhone 4. Staggering product launches reduces strain on Apple's servers. iOS 4 is the first version of the OS to be a free upgrade on the iPod touch; Apple had charged $9.99 for earlier upgrades. Apple previously announced that iPad users with 3.x software would receive a free upgrade to the next major (4.x) release. New features...
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...to Nokia’s business strategy; the winning strategy is based upon the following factors. Best mobile devices regardless the price and geographical location * Provide extensive internet solutions on mobile devices * Enter into the markets by providing business mobility solutions to the corporate users Analysis: I believe that Nokia’s strategy is a winning strategy for the following reasons: * Business solutions: Innovative Business mobility solutions will attract the corporate users, since Nokia devices are based upon a very stable platform, and Nokia has a very long history of producing stable devices. Nokia-Siemens merger has already been successful with the introduction of N97 (latest Nokia phone for corporate users). * Symbian OS: Symbian OS is the operating system used by nearly 46.7% of the mobile device platforms. With the introduction of Symbian 10, which is the OS owned and used by Nokia , a good...
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...not yet offer lower priced models for more costconscious consumers. User Interface – Touch screen interfaces suffer from the problem of “gorilla arm”* Threats Increased competition – Smart phones are easier to make now morethan ever. More companies may enter the market, and competitors oreven Apple contractors can maneuver around patents to create similardevices. Downward pricing pressure – The iPhone is marketed as a high-end phone, but phone prices are almost certainly going to fall whenother companies undercut the price of iPhones. Difficulty expanding into Asian market – There is less hype andinterest in Asia since smart phones are better known and already widely used. Threats Competition (Palm) - Palm has the longest history in PDA marketand has experience-developing software for mobile devices. It is also a well-known brand for businesspeople. Existing software is wellestablished and compatible with...
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...Nokia Rise and Fall EMSE 6005.10 – Organizational Behavior For The Engineering Managers Professor Andy Sakka Abhishek Thakur Akshat Amrut Oswal Nokia history: Nokia was founded by Fredrik Idestam, a mining engineer in 1865. The name Nokia was decided in 1871 when he opened his second paper mill on the bank of Nokianvirta river. Nokia started out with making paper which incidentally was one of the very first technologies used for communications. Fredrik Idestam was the chairman of the company till 1896 when he retired, and Leo Mechelin took over as the chairman. Under Mechelin, Nokia started a new business unit of electricity generation. In 1898, Eduard Polon founded the Finnish Rubber Works, which later became Nokia’s rubber business. They were making everything from galoshes to tires. In 1912, Finnish Cable Works was established by Arvid Wickstrom, which later became Nokia’s cable and electronic business. In 1967, all three of these jointly owned companies came together to form the Nokia corporation. Nokia’s first thrust in telecommunications came when they began developing radio telephones for the army and emergency services. During this period, the company was involved in many businesses including paper products, tire manufacturing, footwears, communication cables, televisions , electricity generation machinery, robotics , chemicals, plastics and many more. By 1987,, Nokia became one of the leading manufacturers of TV in Europe. By 1990, Nokia decided to concentrate...
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...Apple Computer Company History Apple Computer is one of the pioneers of the technology industry. Headquartered in Cupertino, CA, with development facilities and retail locations worldwide, Apple was founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL, LSE: 0HDZ, FWB: APC), formerly Apple Computer Inc., is an American multinational corporation with a focus on designing and manufacturing consumer electronics and closely related software products. Established in Cupertino, California on April 1, 1976, Apple develops, sells, and supports a series of personal computers, portable media players, mobile phones, computer software, and computer hardware and hardware accessories. As of September 2007, the company operates about 200 retail stores in five countries and an online store where hardware and software products are sold. The iTunes Store provides music, audio-books, iPod games, music videos, episodes of television programs, and movies which can be downloaded using iTunes on Mac or Windows, and also on the iPod touch and the i-Phone. The company's best-known hardware products include the Macintosh line of personal computers, the iPod line of portable media players, and the i-Phone. Apple's software products include the Mac OS X operating system, the i-Life suite of multimedia and creativity software, and Final Cut Studio, a suite of professional audio- and film-industry software products. The company, incorporated January 3, 1977, was known as "Apple Computer...
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...Background of the company First, we should know about the overview of the company that include the impact of information systems in the organisation and its relevance to the different activities undertaken by the company. Apple Inc. was incorporated in 1976 as a computer company in California. Apple was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne. Apple Company cares about design of the products and produces a line of personal computers as well as portable digital media devices, software, mobile phones, and related accessories. For example, Apple’s products have Macintosh line of desktop, the iPod digital music player, the Mac OS X operating system, the iTunes Music Store, the Xserve G5 server, and Xserve RAID storage products (http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/history2/31/Apple-Computer-Inc.html...
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...iOS: It’s a mobile operating system used and developed by Apple Inc. It is used to run iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices. It was first released in 2007 for iPhone[3]. It is based on the concept of direct manipulationand utilizes a multi-touch interface where simple gestures are used to operate the device, like swiping your finger across the screen to move to the next page or pinching your fingers to zoom out also for rotating in three dimension, respond on shaking or tilting the device internal accelerometers are used applications[4]. It uses framework of OSX such as Core Foundation and Foundation but its UI toolkit is Cocoa Touch instead of AppKit framework. It’s therefore not compatible with OS X for applications.iOS also shares the Darwin foundation with OS X. Its is very restrictive when it comes to their devices thas why Apple is much secure than Android devices [7]. pinching and reverse pinching to manipulate on-screen objects. The response to user input is designed to be immediate and provides a fluid touch interface, often using the vibration capabilities of the device to provide haptic feedback to the user.[8]. Google Play Store: It is an application store called Google Play Store...
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...Operating system : An operating system (OS) is a collection of software that manages computer hardware resources and provides common services for computer programs. The operating system is an essential component of the system software in a computer system. Application programs usually require an operating system to function. Time-sharing operating systems schedule tasks for efficient use of the system and may also include accounting software for cost allocation of processor time, mass storage, printing, and other resources. For hardware functions such as input and output and memory allocation, the operating system acts as an intermediary between programs and the computer hardware, although the application code is usually executed directly by the hardware and will frequently make a system call to an OS function or be interrupted by it. Operating systems can be found on almost any device that contains a computer—from cellular phones and video game consoles to supercomputers and web servers. Examples of popular modern operating systems include Android, BSD, iOS, Linux, OS X, QNX, Microsoft Windows, Windows Phone, and IBM z/OS. All these, except Windows, Windows Phone and z/OS, share roots in UNIX. Smartphone A Smartphone, or smart phone, is a mobile phone built on a mobile operating system, with more advanced computing capability and connectivity than a feature phone. The first smartphones combined the functions of a personal digital assistant (PDA), including email...
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...ongoing expansion into the consumer electronics market in addition to its traditional focus on personal computers. So now Apple is an American multinational corporation that designs and markets consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. The company's best-known hardware products include the Macintosh line of computers, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad. Apple software includes the Mac OS X operating system; the iTunes media browser. Recent Developments in APPLE Apple has built an Innovation Factory – one that harnesses creativity in its people, stimulating new ideas, and launching successful, profitable new innovations... Apple leverages its diverse culture, innovation processes, partners and networks to seize the new opportunities in the marketplace and grow its business...exponentially… In 2006, Apple switched the Mac to Intel chips, and combined with sleeker designs and continuous refinements, the Mac has gained market share ever since. In 2001, Apple launched the iPod, one of the most successful consumer electronics products in history. Setting the bar for portable music players, every competing product is measured against the iPod's ease of use and capabilities. In 2007, Apple introduced the iPhone, a combination phone, iPod, Internet appliance and mobile computer. The iPhone transformed the mobile phone industry with its unique user interface In 2010, The iPad was launched and positioned between smartphone and laptop .It was priced...
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...from the much anticipated “cheaper” iPhone, increasing design complexities and ever decreasing time to market necessitate frequent revisits to supply chain strategy and supply partners. Addition of a new supplier will provide a greater flexibility and Apple can react faster to supply chain disruptions, should they arise. As a result of its strong commitment towards safe and ethical manufacturing practices, Apple needs to be in a position to sever ties with any supplier that doesn’t comply with its Code of Conduct. It doesn’t mean non-compliance from Foxconn but a mere option to exercise—if needed. Capacity Management: Apple has a history of competing with multiple companies across the value chain. Unlike Google, Apple cannot afford the luxury of working with multiple handset partners such as Motorola, Samsung, LG, etc. Since Apple’s proprietary OS is closely linked to its hardware design, it needs to manage handset capacity issues as well. To succeed in emerging markets such as China and India (one the world’s largest user base), Apple needs to ramp up its production capacity rather quickly. Having a second supplier will ease some of the capacity constraints and help Apple focus on its core business – developing groundbreaking...
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...software was terrible. The hardware wasn't very good. We talked to our friends, and they all hated their cellphones too. Everybody seemed to hate their phones. And we saw that these things really could become much more powerful and interesting to license. It's a huge market. I mean a billion phones get shipped every year, and that's almost an order of magnitude greater than the number of music players. It's four times the number of PCs that ship every year. "It was a great challenge. Let's make a great phone that we fall in love with. And we've got the technology. We've got the miniaturization from the iPod. We've got the sophisticated operating system from Mac. Nobody had ever thought about putting operating systems as sophisticated as OS X inside a phone, so that was a real question. We had a big debate inside the company whether we could do that or not. And that was one where I had to adjudicate it and just say, 'We're going to do it. Let's try.' The smartest software guys were saying they can do it, so let's give them a shot. And they did." On Apple's connection with the consumer "We did iTunes because we all love music. We made what we thought was the best jukebox in iTunes. Then we all wanted to carry our whole music libraries around with us. The team worked really hard. And the reason that they worked so hard is because we all wanted one. You know? I mean, the first few hundred customers were us. "It's not about pop culture, and it's not about fooling people, and...
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...understatement when describing the iPhone. This single device kicked off a technological revolution in which personal computers were redefined. Prior to the iPhone, the most advanced cell phones had only very basic web browsers, poor cameras, and simple user interfaces. With the iPhone came a much faster web browser, photo and music storage, a nicer camera, and the iPhone’s touch screen display made the device extremely intuitive and user-friendly. However, this first iPhone had many shortcomings to be fulfilled. Data speeds were lacking, the operating system had little security, and the user could not install non-Apple, or third-party, apps (Miller). The iPhone’s first operating system was named after Apple’s computer operating system, “OS X”. Cisco’s operating system was known as “IOS”, so Apple was only able to begin using the name “iOS” for the iPhone’s operating system after paying Cisco some money in 2010. This mobile operating system was much more like a computer’s operating system than any other at the time. iOS dealt with similar security issues and used many of the same defense mechanisms as computer operating systems (Miller). With a device as...
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...Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research ISSN 0718–1876 Electronic Version VOL 6 / ISSUE 2 / AUGUST 2011 / 31-49 © 2011 Universidad de Talca - Chile This paper is available online at www.jtaer.com DOI: 10.4067/S0718-18762011000200005 A Co-Evolution Model of Competitive Mobile Platforms: Technoeconomic Perspective Perambur Neelakanta1 and Raef Yassin2 Florida Atlantic University, Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, 1 neelakan@fau.edu, 2 yassin@fau.edu Received 13 January 2011; received in revised form 10 April 2011; accepted 18 May 2011 Abstract A model depicting competitive technoeconomics of business structures specific to mobile-platforms is developed. The underlying co-evolution of large, competing enterprises of mobile-platforms that face customerchurning due to application-preferences and pricing structures in the deregulated ambient is viewed in the perspectives of nonlinear logistic systems akin to that of biological ecosystems. Relevant considerations are decided by and embodied with several stochastically-interacting subsystems. Hence, the temporal dynamics of competition/co-evolution of known competitors in the mobile-platform market, like Android, Symbian and iPhone is depicted by a novel model posing dichotomy of prey-predator flip-flops in the market; and, an asymptotic projection of ex post computations of underlying technoeconomics into the ex ante region would correspond to futuristic forecasts...
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