Investment analysis of Apple Corporation (the maker of I-pod just in case there is more than one)

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13 September 2007

An Investment Analysis on Apple Incorporated

Apple Inc , formerly known as Apple Computer , Inc , is an American multinational corporation that designs and manufactures software and hardware products in consumer electronics , such as personal computers portable media players , computer software , and computer hardware accessories (Wikipedia 2007 . It has its headquarters in Cupertino California , and it has been known for very renowned products in computer electronics like the iPhone , the iPod , the Apple TV , the iLife , the iTunes Store , and the Mac OS X

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It started out in April 1 , 1976 as Apple Computer , Inc , when it introduced their very first product - the Apple I (Wikipedia 2007 . A year later , they introduced the Apple II microcomputer , and then in 1983 , they introduced the `Lisa , which is the first commercial personal computer to employ a graphical user interface (Wikipedia 2007 . A year after that , the Macintosh was introduced , which has a new user-friendly graphical user interface (Wikipedia 2007 . Its success in the Macintosh and Lisa led to other innovation and development , especially when it came to graphical interfaces and the operating system . After the era of the Commodore Amiga and the Atari ST in the mid-`80s , the `90s became a legend and the `golden age ' for the multinational company , as it introduced the PowerBook , the Apple Quick Take digital camera , the Palm Pilot , the iPhone , and later on , the iPod that has been the company 's most successful product line (Wikipedia 2007 . The company has magnificently expanded to 165 retail stores in September 2006 , wherein 147 of those are located in U .S (United States Securities Exchange and Commission 8 . This was after they attempted reinvention in the mid-`90s , which paved the way for the Palm Pilot and the iPod

Products and Markets

The current products these past few years include the iDVD , the DVD Studio Pro , and the Mac OS X of 2001 - the year when the company opened its first retail store in America (Wikipedia 2007 . It was also that year when Apple introduced the portable iPod , which is a digital audio player , as well as the iTunes Store , which offers music downloads for a cost of 99 cents per song , and also the PowerBook and the iBook (Wikipedia 2007 . By 2002 , iPhoto and iLife were released , as well as the iMac G3 , and the educational eMac (Wikipedia 2007 . By 2003 , the Power Mac G5 was released , and the following year , the Apple Cinema Displays and the low-cost Mac mini (Wikipedia 2007 . By 2005 , the company announced that it would begin manufacturing products with Intel and this led to the 2006 MacBook Pro , which is Apple 's first laptop with an Intel microprocessor (Wikipedia 2007

As of 2006 , Apple Inc 's products can be divided into the following categories (1 ) hardware products like the Macintosh computers (2 music products and services like the iPod (3 ) the peripheral products like the Apple Cinema HD Display (4 ) the software products and computer technologies like the Mac...