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With its encryption techniques, it is impossible or extremely difficult for hackers and other cyber criminals to access private information held in Apple devices. This guarantees Apple customers absolute safety of their private information. Indeed, unlike most other mobile devices, the iPhone is now an impossible nut to crack for hackers.
For the government, however, Apple's encryption techniques pose a threat to national security (Stavridis). Criminals can safely use Apple devices to plan and execute attacks. With Apple's strong encryption techniques, it would be extremely difficult for investigative authorities to gather evidence for prosecuting suspects. The case of the San Bernardino attack is an ideal example. The FBI and the National Security Agency (NSA) admitted their inability to hack the device owned by one of the terrorists. Devices obtained from suspects in such instances can provide important leads as far as getting to the bottom of the issue is concerned. They can provide records of communication (call records, emails, and so on) between the suspect and other entities that might have collaborated with the suspect to plan and execute the attack, leading to more convincing evidence, more arrests, and the discovery of other attacks the terrorists might have been planning. In this case, for instance, it emerged that the terrorists' neighbor was…
Apple's CEO Tim Cook recently publicly announced that he is gay (Chen & Goel, 2014). This step was clearly a major personal landmark for him, but it caught attention in the business world as well, for several reasons. First, there few openly gay C-suiters, and even fewer as prominent as Cook. There may be some who are not out, but Cook's announcement was intended specifically to shift the mindset of
Apple's 2011 profits "are predicted to climb another $3 billion, or 22%, to $16.5 billion. The iPhone is still on fire. And the new iPad sold a whopping 3.3 million units in its first quarter on the market" (Cendrowski, 2010). While it is true that Apple is hardly an overlooked 'gem' and is a fairly mature state as a company, it is also true that it has many new 'hot'
Race to the Top is less harsh, but more rewarding to better schools, and provides a huge amount of incentive to improve. (Race to the Top, 1) Only time will tell if President Obama's education program will be successful or not. Those who oppose using federal money to buy Apple Computers, which are notoriously expensive, are against the idea of education as being a source of pride for America, and
Apple, Google Analysis of each company Apple is a designer and marketer of consumer electronic devices and software. The company is also vertically integrated with respect to retailing, operating its own stores and functioning as one of the biggest online retailers in the world. Apple's primary products are the iPhone ($80.4 billion), iPad ($32.4 billion) and portable computers ($17.1 billion). Other billion-dollar products are desktop computers, iPod music players, iTunes, peripherals and
Apple exists in an oligopoly market structure, wherein a small handful of companies control the market. Apple, along with Samsung, Microsoft, Alphabet (Google) and Nokia, essentially control the tech industry (smart phones, computers, portable devices, etc.). While smaller companies do exist, it is these larger companies that set the stage for prices, products and innovation. To what extent Apple’s current status as a blue chip stock may be representative of
Table 2: Distribution of Revenue by Product Area Source: (Apple Investor Relations, 2008) (Prudential Equity Group LLC, 2006) Planning The cornerstone of Apple's planning processes is the continual development of products and services that compliment the product and services ecosystem shown in Figure 1 (Apple Investor Relations, 2008) (Prudential Equity Group LLC, 2006). Figure 1: Apple Product and Services Ecosystem Source: (Apple Investor Relations, 2008) (Prudential Equity Group LLC, 2006) For Apple, their future planning revolves