Apple iTunes The author of this report has decided to focus on the aspects and dimensions of a certain company. That company is going to be Apple Corporation. Rather than analyze and summarize them at a high level, the author will instead focus on a certain portion or "location" that Apple makes use of. Rather than point to a physical or map location, the author will focus on their online presence, which is mostly in the form of the Apple iTunes web portal. While Apple does sell a lot of goods and services via other retailers and its own stores and corporate locations, Apple's online presence is where Apple is best able to sell their services and products with little to no physical effort expended.

Analysis

Apple has been around since 1977. Founded by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs in 1977, the company has since grown to roughly 110,000 employees. Steve Wozniak is still technically employed by Apple and receives a salary every year but he is not the presence he was at Apple's inception. As many people know, Steve Jobs passed away in 2011 after a bout with cancer. Their relationship used to be quite good but things did mostly sour over the years including a time where Jobs departed to found his own company. He later came back and brought his nascent software company with them. The Unix-based operating system that this other company, known as NeXTLEVEL, had created is what became the basis for what would become Mac OS X, the current iteration of the Macintosh operating...

Movies, for example, have traditionally been stored and used from VHS tapes or DVD's. Music, for example, has commonly been used from tape cassettes and CD's. However, there has been a shift over the years as the internet emerged in the mid-1990's as a strong force with the regular computer user. As the ability to store, change and manipulate data has changed, the way in which movies and music are consumed has changed. Indeed, there are many people that make active (or even exclusive) use of streaming and other online sources for music and data rather than relying solely on a physical CD or Blu-Ray disc. While many people out there use a blend of online and offline data forms when it comes to entertainment media, there are many that do as much as they can online. For example, a movie for sale on Amazon can be bought in physical form or it can be bought as an online purchase and is subsequently available via streaming on devices like televisions, media boxes (e.g. Roku) or AppleTV, just to name a few options. This is where Apple iTunes comes in. Rather than do a blend of physical and virtual media, Apple iTunes is online only. Of course, personal users of iTunes (the store and the application) can make use of physical media as part of their experience, the iTunes store itself is an entirely online presence. For…