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Steve Jobs Summary
Steve Jobs Summary
-capital
Like many technology-based businesses in the first world, Apple eschews full vertical
integration in favor of outsourcing physical production to cut costs. This dichotomy
plays out in the packaging for the iPod Touch and other Apple products, which often
bear the slogan "Designed in California" alongside the government-mandated,
country-of-origin statement "Made in China." Capital factors of production includes
machinery & warehouses technology (E.g. - Components of an iPod: Harddrive,
LCD, RAM, Circuit board with microprocessor, battery pack, audio chip, and video
chip)
Labor
The labor pool that contributed to the realization of the Apple includes internal,
stateside employees who worked on its design, prototyping and eventual marketing
and sales efforts and external laborers working in foreign factories in Asia. By using
external labor for manufacturing, Apple reduces its production costs for Apple
computers and other products. Factors of the labor force of Apple include many
people in charge of different jobs such as: Mac Hardware Engineering, Applications,
Marketing, Operations, Human Resources, Facilities, Finance, Software
Engineering, iPhone Engineering, iPod Engineering, Sales, Information, Systems
and & Technology, AppleCare, Retail Corporate
-Entrepreneurship
With Steve Jobs at its helm, Apple made a name for itself as a leader in the
entrepreneurship category on an international scale. Apple emphasized innovation in
its product line and in its efforts to mythologize its own brand. Entrepreneurship of
Apple is Steve Jobs himself.