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Apple makes some of the most popular technological products in the world but even it faces stiff competition from cheaper competitors, particularly in the developing world. This paper compares two of Apple's most recent and popular offerings in the form of the 5C and 5S smartphone. The paper is structured like a SWOT analysis.

This paper is about Apple, from the managerial economics point of view. The concept of strategic hell is introduced, noting conditions that trend towards the unprofitable hell of perfect competition. Then, there is an analysis of how Apple has avoided this strategic hell through differentiation and innovation that pushes the AD curve outward.

This paper is about AT&T. It contains financial analysis of the long-range trends for the company over the course of the past five years. The analysis includes a table of some key ratios, and some philosophizing about what those ratios might tell us about the company's performance during this era of mobile.

It can be hard to pinpoint a definition for consumerism. However, generally the term is used to describe people that conflate wants and needs. For example, some people might identify the new iPhone as a want that would be nice to have. While others actually would describe this as something "need" in order to be happy; to the extent that they will actually wait in line for hours on end to be the first to purchase the new iContraption. Consumerism can also include the concept of fashionable consumption. Fashionable consumption goes beyond what an individual actually needs in terms of their physical well-being.

The role of innovation is criticla in any busienss, as this analysis of the Dyson case study illustrates. This analysis compares the eight pillars of innovation at Google with Dyson and their need to pursue a more strategic approach to designing new, innovative and potentially cannibalistic products to what they offer today.

This assignment asks the author to answer four broad-based economic questions. The questions pertain to trade restrictions, who was really to blame for the global financial crisis, how to encourage companies to hire and for those hires to be of disadvantaged people and so forth. Four external references are included to buttress and support the facts and arguments made.