Essays on Million Units

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Executive Summary

Tesla Motors was developed in the year 2003 and has been the pioneer of producing the environment friendly vehicles ever since. The company has been widely known for its high performance sports cars that are equipped with the latest technology features and hinder the carbon emission, which eventually makes its vehicles environment friendly. The company is aimed towards reducing its inventory, production and distribution cost and provide high-end vehicles at low cost. The company is focused on enhancing the customer experience by means of providing them with the innovative features and design while keeping the cost low ...

Business Research Project Part 2

Business Research Project Part 2

The article (The Guardian, 2015) addresses the issue of the declining sales of iPad tablets in 2014. The sales of iPad were 26.0 million items in the last quarter of 2013, and declined to 21.4 million in the same period of 2014 (17.7% drop). However, this trend is not unique. The other researches indicated that the sales of the other tablets are also constantly declining. However, the analytics consider this is due to increase of the tablet market (more manufacturers on the market). The general trend confirms that all the manufacturers are shipping fewer ...

Atari Rapid Growth

Atari’s rapid growth is attributed to the decision of its founder to transform the traditional gaming machines into a smaller home machine. Bushnell compressed the coin-operated Pong game into a smaller home system. The Atari 2600 was the most successful home based gaming system that used cartridge.

How Did Ninitendo Successfully Recreate the Home Video Game Business Following the Atari - Era Boom and Bust?

After the boom and bust of the Atari, Nintendo focused on a diversification strategy. Initially, the company focused on the production of playing cards before the diversification to the production of the video game business. As such, the organization acquired a licensing to produce video games from Magnafox, which led to ...

Global market research firm TrendForce presented the results of the research of the global smartphone market in the first quarter, which shocked the world. According to analysts, in January–March 2016 Apple released 42 million iPhone, which is almost 44 % less than three months old ("TrendForce Reports Global Smartphone Shipments Reached 292 Million Units in First Quarter with iPhone Plunging 43.8%", 2016). That strong quarterly fall on the market of the US corporation is being experienced for the first time Falling incomes of most expensive companies in the world led to an impressive decline in its market capitalization – Apple ...

Sony Play station has been one of the most successful products of the century. Since the release of the first Play Station in December 1993, Sony has released three subsequent Play Stations with great success. Sony released the original play station in December 1993, and sold more than 70 million play stations worldwide by the time Play Station 2 was released in 2000 (USA Today, 2014). Play Station 2 sold more than 155 million by the time it was discontinued in December 2012 (USA Today, 2014). Sony released Play Station 3 in 2006, and had sold 80 million units ...

Introduction

In economics, the laws of supply and demand interact to set the prices of an item. There are other factors that will affect the demand curve such as the presence of substitute products in the market, changing customer preferences and change in technology. Looking at the Apple Company, it has made high sales on its product the iphone. When the company announced its launch of the iphone in 2007, it was estimated that the demand would skyrocket. The forecasts were true. Every year the company has launched a higher version of the iphone and sales still continue to be high ( ...