1) When President Obama asked Steve Jobs why iPhones couldn't be made in the US, Jobs replied "Those jobs aren't coming back" because overseas factories have vastly larger scale and more flexible, skilled workers.
2) Apple relies on factories in China that can quickly adjust assembly lines and mobilize tens of thousands of workers to live on site if needed. The scale and flexibility of these factories allows for rapid innovation not possible in the US.
3) While some iPhone components like software are made in the US, the complex assembly of hundreds of parts requires a large supply chain network located almost entirely in Asia. US plants cannot match the scale or skill of Asian factories.
chapter 1 Globalization
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
1Understand what is meant by the termglobalization.
2Recognize the main drivers of globalization.
3Describe the changing nature of the global economy.
4Explain the main arguments in the debate over the impact of globalization.
5Understand how the process of globalization is creating opportunities and challenges for business managers.
opening case Who Makes the Apple iPhone?
In its early days, Apple usually didn't look beyond its own backyard to manufacture its devices. A few years after Apple started to make the Macintosh computer back in 1983, Steve Jobs bragged that it was “a machine that was made in America.” As late as the early 2000s, Apple still manufactured many of its computers at the company's iMac plant in Elk Grove, California. Jobs often said that he was as proud of the Apple's manufacturing plants as he was of the devices themselves.
By 2004, however, Apple had largely turned to foreign manufacturing. The shift to offshore manufacturing reached its peak with the iconic iPhone, which Apple first introduced in 2007. All iPhones contain hundreds of parts, an estimated 90 percent of which are manufactured abroad. Advanced semiconductors come from Germany and Taiwan, memory from Korea and Japan, display panels and circuitry from Korea and Taiwan, chipsets from Europe, and rare metals from Africa and Asia. Apple's major subcontractor, the Taiwanese multinational firm, Foxconn, performs final assembly in China.
Apple still employees some 43,000 people in the United States, and it has kept important activities at home, including product design, software engineering, and marketing. Furthermore, Apple claims that its business supports another 254,000 jobs in the United States in engineering, manufacturing, and transportation. For example, the glass for the iPhone is manufactured at Corning's U.S. plants in Kentucky and New York. But an additional 700,000 people are involved in the engineering, building, and final assembly of its products outside of the United States, and most of them work at subcontractors like Foxconn.
When explaining its decision to assemble the iPhone in China, Apple cites a number of factors. While it is true that labor costs are much lower in China, Apple executives point out that labor costs only account for a very small proportion of the total value of its products and are not the main driver of location decisions. Far more important, according to Apple, is the ability of its Chinese subcontractors to respond very quickly to requests from Apple to scale production up and down. In a famous illustration of this capability, back in 2007 Steve Jobs demanded that a glass screen replace the plastic screen on his prototype iPhone. Jobs didn't like the look and feel of plastic screens, which at the time were standard in the industry, nor did he like the way they scratched easily. This last-minute change in the design of the iPhone put Apple's market introduction date at risk. App ...
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Clinical Interview Role-Play
Assignment Content
Top of Form
Review materials on clinical interviewing and conducting a mental status exam with special populations.
Write a 10- to 15-minute role-play transcript where you conduct a mock clinical interview, which includes a mental status exam with an individual who fits into one of the special population categories. In your role-play mock interview, demonstrate the following:
· Setting the environment.
· Establishing rapport.
· Address two to three key elements of the clinical interview. Adapt these to meet the needs of the special population client you selected.
· Complete a mental status exam.
Bottom of Form
Running head: MANAGERIAL BEHAVIORS IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES
MANAGERIAL BEHAVIORS IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES
Managerial Behaviors in Different Countries
Angela Diaz
12/01/2019
Barry Univeristy
Apple Inc is a US multinational technology organization based in Cupertino, California. Apple designs, develop and sells computer software as well as consumer electronics, among others. The organization is ranked among the most prominent top four tech companies amongst Facebook, Goggle, and Amazon. Apple is one of the biggest electronic companies that “markets and manufactures personal computers, portable digital music player and media devices, and mobile communication." The reason why I picked China and Apple Inc. is that recently, the company has been trying to penetrate the Chinese market, and it has been an easy task. Moreover, most of the Apple products are manufactured in China.
The company sells a lot of products apart from devices; they include varied products associated with softwares, third-party digital contents, network solutions, and peripherals services that can be availed through the company's devices. However, the company has famously known products, including iPad, Macintosh computers, iPhone, and iPod. Macintosh is one of the most famous devices in the company, and it was first developed in 1984. Macintosh was the first computer to apply a graphic user interface that allowed the user to activate the pictures on the device by use of the mouse (Schmidpeter, Stehr, & Huang, 2015). The triumphant story of Macintosh encouraged a lot of development in the computer industry, and all modern computers apply a graphic user interface. iPhone was also the first smartphone the company created. iPhone has similar functionality just like a computer; however, it is small. Apart from acting like a computer iPhone is a mobile phone as such receive calls as well as text messages. Besides browsing and checking emails, the phone also allows it can store music and audio files. The videos can be downloaded into the device as well. One of the popular features the iPhone enjoys is taking the image directly from the device.
Apple is an American company; however, today, the company outsources its product from China. Most people believe that Apple is only operating in China to maximize profit. How ...
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CASE 16 :: APPLE INC.: STILL TAKING A BITE OUT OF THE COMPETITION? C117
CASES
CASE 16
APPLE INC.: STILL TAKING A BITE OUT OF THE COMPETITION?*
On February 11, 2015, Apple Inc. made history by becom-
ing the first U.S. publicly traded company to close above
$700 billion in market value. This put Apple’s value nearly
double that of the next three largest companies in the S&P
500 Index,1 and it firmly established expectations for future
performance. Apple’s market value had grown more than
50,600 percent since its initial public offering in December
1980.2 To satisfy investors, consumers, and company enthu-
siasts, Apple would have to continue to deliver, and doing so
might not be easy. As Apple had grown, the pace of innova-
tion had slowed. There were still opportunities, but would
Apple be the company to see them through to fruition?
The year 2015 was not the first time Apple had wowed
investors. In September 2012 Apple stock had hit a price
high of $702.10, at that time making Apple the most valu-
able company in the world, but the company had not been
able to sustain that lofty valuation. September 2012 had also
marked Tim Cook’s first full year as CEO and the first full
year since the death of Apple’s visionary founder, Steve
Jobs. Although most Apple watchers had mourned Steve
Jobs’s death on October 5, 2011, most also realized that
Jobs’s appointed successor, Tim Cook, came to the position
as CEO with an impressive track record. Cook had contin-
ued to grow the company, and the 2012 year-end numbers
showed continued financial success across almost all prod-
uct lines. However, expectations were still very high, and
rumors of a reduction in Asian supplier component orders
for the iPhone for 2013 led investors to worry about a drop-
off in demand for the company’s flagship product. This
worry led to a subsequent drop in Apple’s stock price of
nearly 24 percent.3
CEO Cook subsequently defused concerns over supply
chain issues, but that didn’t stop analysts and media watch-
ers from wondering whether Apple had lost its luster.4 This
posed yet again the unavoidable question that had loomed
large over the then 35-year-old Apple: What happens to a
modern company whose innovations and inspirations are
so closely tied to the vision of one leader when that lead-
er’s influence is no longer present?5 By 2015, that question
appeared to have been definitively answered: Apple, under
CEO Cook, was not only the most valuable company in
the world but was poised to grow even more (see Exhibits
1 and 2).
Apple, Fortune magazine’s “world’s most admired
company” since 2008,6 had distinguished itself by excel-
ling over the years not only in product innovation but also
in revenue and margins (since 2006 Apple had consistently
reported gross margins of over 30 percent). Founded as
a computer company in 1976 and known early on for its
intuitive adaptation of the graphical user interface, or GUI
(via the first mouse and ...
Headquartered in Cupertino, California, Apple Inc. experienced many c.pdffaizul123
Headquartered in Cupertino, California, Apple Inc. experienced many challenges throughout its
business history. In 1997 Apple's share price was \$3.30. Fifteen years later its share price rose to
$705.07 (although its share price decreased to $425 the following year). In 2014 Apple split its
stock 7-1, meaning each share was worth a seventh of its previous value, and stockholders were
given seven extra shares of stock to make up the difference. Apple's stock price has become a
key benchmark for the technology sector. For the past eight years, Apple earned first place
among Fortune magazine's World's Most Admired Companies. To millions of consumers, the
Apple brand embodies quality, prestige, and innovation. Although companies tried to copy the
Apple business model, none have been able to discover what it is that makes Apple so unique.
Apple is ranked first in innovation by Fortune magazine and is a market leader in the
development and sales of mobile devices. Many believe Apple's success stems from a
combination of several factors, including the remarkable leadership skills of former CEO Steve
Jobs, a corporate culture of enthusiasm and innovation, and the high-tech products for which
Apple is known. These combining qualities allow Apple to revolutionize the technology and
retail industries. Apple's History Apple's first product, the Apple I, was vastly different from the
Apple products most are familiar with today. This first handmade computer kit was constructed
by Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak. It lacked a graphic user interface (GUI), and buyers had to
add their own keyboard and display. Cofounder Steve Jobs convinced Wozniak that it could be
sold as a commercial product. In 1976 the Apple I was unvelled at the Home Brew Computer
Club and put on sale for $666.66. Jobs and Wozniak continued to create innovative products.
Soon their new company, Apple Computer Inc., surpassed \$1 million in sales. However, the
mid-1980s brought difficult times for Apple. In 1983 the company introduced the Apple Lisa for
$10,000. The product flopped. In 1985 Steve Jobs was ousted after internal conflicts with the
Apple CEO. Its computer products the Mac I and the Newton were not successful, and the
company underwent several CEO changes. With declining stock prices, the future of Apple was
in jeopardy. 'This case was prepared by Jennifer Sawayda, Harper Baind. Danielle Jolley, and
Julian Mathias for and under the direction of O.C. Ferrell and Linda Ferrell. It was prepared for
classroom discussion rather than to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of an
administrative, ethical, or legal decision by management. All sources used for this case were
obtained through publidy avalable material on the Apple website 62015.
Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997 to try and save the struggling company. The return of Jobs
introduced a new era for Apple. Jobs immediately began to change the company's corporate
culture. Before Jobs's return, employees were m.
chapter 1 Globalization
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
1Understand what is meant by the termglobalization.
2Recognize the main drivers of globalization.
3Describe the changing nature of the global economy.
4Explain the main arguments in the debate over the impact of globalization.
5Understand how the process of globalization is creating opportunities and challenges for business managers.
opening case Who Makes the Apple iPhone?
In its early days, Apple usually didn't look beyond its own backyard to manufacture its devices. A few years after Apple started to make the Macintosh computer back in 1983, Steve Jobs bragged that it was “a machine that was made in America.” As late as the early 2000s, Apple still manufactured many of its computers at the company's iMac plant in Elk Grove, California. Jobs often said that he was as proud of the Apple's manufacturing plants as he was of the devices themselves.
By 2004, however, Apple had largely turned to foreign manufacturing. The shift to offshore manufacturing reached its peak with the iconic iPhone, which Apple first introduced in 2007. All iPhones contain hundreds of parts, an estimated 90 percent of which are manufactured abroad. Advanced semiconductors come from Germany and Taiwan, memory from Korea and Japan, display panels and circuitry from Korea and Taiwan, chipsets from Europe, and rare metals from Africa and Asia. Apple's major subcontractor, the Taiwanese multinational firm, Foxconn, performs final assembly in China.
Apple still employees some 43,000 people in the United States, and it has kept important activities at home, including product design, software engineering, and marketing. Furthermore, Apple claims that its business supports another 254,000 jobs in the United States in engineering, manufacturing, and transportation. For example, the glass for the iPhone is manufactured at Corning's U.S. plants in Kentucky and New York. But an additional 700,000 people are involved in the engineering, building, and final assembly of its products outside of the United States, and most of them work at subcontractors like Foxconn.
When explaining its decision to assemble the iPhone in China, Apple cites a number of factors. While it is true that labor costs are much lower in China, Apple executives point out that labor costs only account for a very small proportion of the total value of its products and are not the main driver of location decisions. Far more important, according to Apple, is the ability of its Chinese subcontractors to respond very quickly to requests from Apple to scale production up and down. In a famous illustration of this capability, back in 2007 Steve Jobs demanded that a glass screen replace the plastic screen on his prototype iPhone. Jobs didn't like the look and feel of plastic screens, which at the time were standard in the industry, nor did he like the way they scratched easily. This last-minute change in the design of the iPhone put Apple's market introduction date at risk. App ...
Clinical Interview Role-PlayAssignment ContentTop of FormRev.docxmccormicknadine86
Clinical Interview Role-Play
Assignment Content
Top of Form
Review materials on clinical interviewing and conducting a mental status exam with special populations.
Write a 10- to 15-minute role-play transcript where you conduct a mock clinical interview, which includes a mental status exam with an individual who fits into one of the special population categories. In your role-play mock interview, demonstrate the following:
· Setting the environment.
· Establishing rapport.
· Address two to three key elements of the clinical interview. Adapt these to meet the needs of the special population client you selected.
· Complete a mental status exam.
Bottom of Form
Running head: MANAGERIAL BEHAVIORS IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES
MANAGERIAL BEHAVIORS IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES
Managerial Behaviors in Different Countries
Angela Diaz
12/01/2019
Barry Univeristy
Apple Inc is a US multinational technology organization based in Cupertino, California. Apple designs, develop and sells computer software as well as consumer electronics, among others. The organization is ranked among the most prominent top four tech companies amongst Facebook, Goggle, and Amazon. Apple is one of the biggest electronic companies that “markets and manufactures personal computers, portable digital music player and media devices, and mobile communication." The reason why I picked China and Apple Inc. is that recently, the company has been trying to penetrate the Chinese market, and it has been an easy task. Moreover, most of the Apple products are manufactured in China.
The company sells a lot of products apart from devices; they include varied products associated with softwares, third-party digital contents, network solutions, and peripherals services that can be availed through the company's devices. However, the company has famously known products, including iPad, Macintosh computers, iPhone, and iPod. Macintosh is one of the most famous devices in the company, and it was first developed in 1984. Macintosh was the first computer to apply a graphic user interface that allowed the user to activate the pictures on the device by use of the mouse (Schmidpeter, Stehr, & Huang, 2015). The triumphant story of Macintosh encouraged a lot of development in the computer industry, and all modern computers apply a graphic user interface. iPhone was also the first smartphone the company created. iPhone has similar functionality just like a computer; however, it is small. Apart from acting like a computer iPhone is a mobile phone as such receive calls as well as text messages. Besides browsing and checking emails, the phone also allows it can store music and audio files. The videos can be downloaded into the device as well. One of the popular features the iPhone enjoys is taking the image directly from the device.
Apple is an American company; however, today, the company outsources its product from China. Most people believe that Apple is only operating in China to maximize profit. How ...
Disruptive Healthcare Business Models and UID : Kapil Khandelwal, www.kapilkh...Kapil Khandelwal (KK)
My fortnightly column, A Dose of It that discusses Disruptive Healthcare Business Models and UID and Aadhar
Kapil Khandelwal
QuoteUnquote with KK
www.kapilkhandelwal.com
CASE 16 APPLE INC. STILL TAKING A BITE OUT OF THE COMPETIT.docxjasoninnes20
CASE 16 :: APPLE INC.: STILL TAKING A BITE OUT OF THE COMPETITION? C117
CASES
CASE 16
APPLE INC.: STILL TAKING A BITE OUT OF THE COMPETITION?*
On February 11, 2015, Apple Inc. made history by becom-
ing the first U.S. publicly traded company to close above
$700 billion in market value. This put Apple’s value nearly
double that of the next three largest companies in the S&P
500 Index,1 and it firmly established expectations for future
performance. Apple’s market value had grown more than
50,600 percent since its initial public offering in December
1980.2 To satisfy investors, consumers, and company enthu-
siasts, Apple would have to continue to deliver, and doing so
might not be easy. As Apple had grown, the pace of innova-
tion had slowed. There were still opportunities, but would
Apple be the company to see them through to fruition?
The year 2015 was not the first time Apple had wowed
investors. In September 2012 Apple stock had hit a price
high of $702.10, at that time making Apple the most valu-
able company in the world, but the company had not been
able to sustain that lofty valuation. September 2012 had also
marked Tim Cook’s first full year as CEO and the first full
year since the death of Apple’s visionary founder, Steve
Jobs. Although most Apple watchers had mourned Steve
Jobs’s death on October 5, 2011, most also realized that
Jobs’s appointed successor, Tim Cook, came to the position
as CEO with an impressive track record. Cook had contin-
ued to grow the company, and the 2012 year-end numbers
showed continued financial success across almost all prod-
uct lines. However, expectations were still very high, and
rumors of a reduction in Asian supplier component orders
for the iPhone for 2013 led investors to worry about a drop-
off in demand for the company’s flagship product. This
worry led to a subsequent drop in Apple’s stock price of
nearly 24 percent.3
CEO Cook subsequently defused concerns over supply
chain issues, but that didn’t stop analysts and media watch-
ers from wondering whether Apple had lost its luster.4 This
posed yet again the unavoidable question that had loomed
large over the then 35-year-old Apple: What happens to a
modern company whose innovations and inspirations are
so closely tied to the vision of one leader when that lead-
er’s influence is no longer present?5 By 2015, that question
appeared to have been definitively answered: Apple, under
CEO Cook, was not only the most valuable company in
the world but was poised to grow even more (see Exhibits
1 and 2).
Apple, Fortune magazine’s “world’s most admired
company” since 2008,6 had distinguished itself by excel-
ling over the years not only in product innovation but also
in revenue and margins (since 2006 Apple had consistently
reported gross margins of over 30 percent). Founded as
a computer company in 1976 and known early on for its
intuitive adaptation of the graphical user interface, or GUI
(via the first mouse and ...
Headquartered in Cupertino, California, Apple Inc. experienced many c.pdffaizul123
Headquartered in Cupertino, California, Apple Inc. experienced many challenges throughout its
business history. In 1997 Apple's share price was \$3.30. Fifteen years later its share price rose to
$705.07 (although its share price decreased to $425 the following year). In 2014 Apple split its
stock 7-1, meaning each share was worth a seventh of its previous value, and stockholders were
given seven extra shares of stock to make up the difference. Apple's stock price has become a
key benchmark for the technology sector. For the past eight years, Apple earned first place
among Fortune magazine's World's Most Admired Companies. To millions of consumers, the
Apple brand embodies quality, prestige, and innovation. Although companies tried to copy the
Apple business model, none have been able to discover what it is that makes Apple so unique.
Apple is ranked first in innovation by Fortune magazine and is a market leader in the
development and sales of mobile devices. Many believe Apple's success stems from a
combination of several factors, including the remarkable leadership skills of former CEO Steve
Jobs, a corporate culture of enthusiasm and innovation, and the high-tech products for which
Apple is known. These combining qualities allow Apple to revolutionize the technology and
retail industries. Apple's History Apple's first product, the Apple I, was vastly different from the
Apple products most are familiar with today. This first handmade computer kit was constructed
by Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak. It lacked a graphic user interface (GUI), and buyers had to
add their own keyboard and display. Cofounder Steve Jobs convinced Wozniak that it could be
sold as a commercial product. In 1976 the Apple I was unvelled at the Home Brew Computer
Club and put on sale for $666.66. Jobs and Wozniak continued to create innovative products.
Soon their new company, Apple Computer Inc., surpassed \$1 million in sales. However, the
mid-1980s brought difficult times for Apple. In 1983 the company introduced the Apple Lisa for
$10,000. The product flopped. In 1985 Steve Jobs was ousted after internal conflicts with the
Apple CEO. Its computer products the Mac I and the Newton were not successful, and the
company underwent several CEO changes. With declining stock prices, the future of Apple was
in jeopardy. 'This case was prepared by Jennifer Sawayda, Harper Baind. Danielle Jolley, and
Julian Mathias for and under the direction of O.C. Ferrell and Linda Ferrell. It was prepared for
classroom discussion rather than to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of an
administrative, ethical, or legal decision by management. All sources used for this case were
obtained through publidy avalable material on the Apple website 62015.
Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997 to try and save the struggling company. The return of Jobs
introduced a new era for Apple. Jobs immediately began to change the company's corporate
culture. Before Jobs's return, employees were m.
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1.Pick two tactics Mr. Blevins uses to drive supplier costs down at Apple. Explain how these tactics work and why they result in lower costs for Apple.
2.Summarize the benefits for Apple from Mr. Blevins' supplier management tactics.
3.Provide one example of when suppliers chose not to support Apple and Mr. Blevins' tactics. What was the impact on the supplier that resulted from this choice?
4.Do you think Apple and Mr. Blevins' supplier management approach would be as effective if the company was not as successful as it currently is? Why or why not?
5.If Mr. Blevins left Apple and you took his place, how would you feel about continuing his tactics? Why? Would you change anything? Why or why not?
Jobs, Cook, Ive—Blevins? The Rise of Apple’s Cost CutterApple procurement executive Tony Blevins’s job is to stare down suppliers and slash prices to the bone, an increasingly vital role
By
Tripp Mickle
Jan. 23, 2020 1:26 pm ET
To understand Apple Inc.’s AAPL -0.29% evolving place in the tech world, consider that one of its most important executives today is a guy whose job is badgering suppliers to get costs down.
Tony Blevins, vice president of procurement, will stop at little to get a favorable deal. He has paraded manufacturers past competitors in Apple’s lobby and spurned a UPS contract by sending it back to UPS executives through FedEx. He persuaded subcontractors not to pay a chip maker that Apple was in litigation with, depriving the chip company of $8 billion, according to court documents and people who recall the case.
The supply chain was always a critical piece of the Apple formula—alongside, if duller than, the design magic of leaders like Steve Jobs and Jony Ive. Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook built the supplier network and instilled rigorous frugality in it as he did so.
Today the supply chain looms larger than ever at Apple. Slowing iPhone sales, combined with the increasing cost of new features, make the job of hammering down expenses critical for a company mining its marquee products for profits as it transitions to a future more focused on selling services.
The result is a company less identified with visionary leaders and more of an operations juggernaut with rich profit margins it intends to keep. At the center of that effort is Mr. Blevins, a vice president of procurement, known as the Blevinator.
A Texas facility of Finisar Corp., which makes optical components for iPhones. PHOTO: APPLE
For years, Mr. Blevins wore a tourist trinket from Hawaii, a cheap puka-shell necklace he had negotiated to a $2 price from $5. It was a reminder to his staff that nothing should fetch full price, said Helen Wang, who worked on his procurement team for years.
“If he’s like that for himself, you can only imagine how he is with company money,” she said.
Mr. Blevins has pushed beyond shrewd negotiations. He enforces manufacturing deadlines that help the company fill orders on time around the world. He manages semiconductor suppliers, making ...
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APRIL 22, 2013, 11:23 P.M. After a hectic day, an exhausted Tim Cook is arriving back at Apple’s headquar-
ters in Cupertino, California. The Apple CEO is trying to find some quiet time to look over the day’s events and
handle some e-mails. Having joined Apple in 1998 as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Operations, Cook had
been appointed CEO based on the recommendation of Steve Jobs, who lost his battle with cancer a few weeks
after resigning from the top spot in August 2011. Cook had been filling in as CEO while Jobs had been on medical
leave. Cook was a low-profile, but high-impact executive at Apple who was responsible for restructuring Apple’s
supply chain, which had allowed Jobs to focus on high-profile product launches. Moreover, Apple’s now super-
efficient supply chain also increased its profitability tremendously.
Steve Jobs had led Apple through a period of innovation that saw the introduction of category-defining prod-
ucts such as the iPod, iPhone, and iPad and disruptive business models complementary to those products, such
as the Apple Retail Store and the iTunes online store. iTunes had started by selling music for Apple’s iPods and
later expanded into books, movies, television shows, and applications for all of Apple’s iOS devices. Apple’s
competitive advantage under Jobs was the ability to continually innovate, but Cook couldn’t help but wonder if
such success was sustainable, especially without Jobs.
Just the previous September, to great fanfare and expectations, Apple had launched the new iPhone 5. In his
presentation to an exuberant crowd of loyal Apple devotees in San Francisco’s Moscone Center that day, Cook
had highlighted Apple’s great performance by focusing on its retail stores and the sales of Mac notebooks and
iPads. In particular, Cook had emphasized the performance of Apple’s 380 retail stores in 12 countries around the
world. 1 An astounding 83 million people had visited Apple retail stores in the preceding quarter, which equates to
almost one million people a day, on average. In addition, he had stated that Apple ranked number one in notebook
sales in the United States, with 27 percent market share. That represented a notebook sales growth of 15 percent a
year. Cook had also commented on the iPad, crediting it with creating a post-PC revolution. Having sold
17 million iPads between April and June 2012, Apple claimed 68 percent market share in tablet computers. In
addition, the iPad accounted for 91 percent of web traffic by all tablets, which Cook attributed to the then over
700,000 iOS applications (apps) available to Apple users. A whopping 94 percent of Fortune 100 companies had
begun deploying Apple iPads in the workplace, many with customized apps to provide enterprise-specific busi-
ness solutions. “To put this achievement in some perspective, we sold more iPads than any PC manufacturer sold
of their entire PC lineup,” Cook said. 2 By June 2012, Apple had sold a total o ...
For this Portfolio Project, you will write a paper about John A.docxevonnehoggarth79783
For this Portfolio Project, you will write a paper about "John Adams" as well as any event in U.S. history that is relevant to your major area of study or of interest to you. You will write about John Adams from the perspective of another historical personality who lived at the same time as the person or event you are going to describe.
For your historical personality, try to select someone from an under-represented population (examples of possible perspectives include that of Anne Hutchinson, Pocahontas, or Sojourner Truth). This analysis is to make you think about how events/people’s actions were interpreted at the time.
Key Points::
Remember that you will be writing from the perspective of a historical person about another person or an event from a period of U.S. history up to Reconstruction. From your historical person’s perspective, provide a thorough summary of the person or event you’ve chosen to write about, including the incidents that took place and any key individuals involved or affected.
Address the general importance of the person or event in the context of U.S. history.
Now, explain specifically how the person or event changed “your” daily life—“you” being the historical persona you have adopted.
Think long-term: How will the person or the event you are describing make a long-term impact in the lives of people who are in the under-represented group to which your historical person/perspective belongs?
Paper Requirements:
Your paper must be four to six pages, not including the required references and title pages.
Use at least five sources, not including the textbook. Include a scholarly journal article. Include at least one
primary
source from those identified in the syllabus.
Definition of a Primary Source
: A primary source is any source, document or artifact that was created at the time of the event. It was usually created by someone who witnessed the event, lived during or even shortly afterwards, or somehow would have first-hand knowledge of that event. A secondary source, by contrast, is written by a historian or someone writing about the event after it happened.
Have an introduction and strong thesis statement. Make use of support and examples supporting your thesis
Finish with a forceful conclusion reiterating your main idea.
Format your paper according to the
CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA Requirements
(Links to an external site.)
.
.
For this portfolio assignment, you are required to research and anal.docxevonnehoggarth79783
For this portfolio assignment, you are required to research and analyze a TV program that ran between 1955 and 1965.
To successfully complete this essay, you will need to answer the following questions:
What is the background of this show? Explain what years it was on TV, describe the channel it aired on, the main characters, setting, etc..
What social issues and historical events were taking place at the time the show was being broadcast?
Did these issues affect the television show in any way?
Did the television show make an impact on popular culture?
Your thesis for the essay should attempt to answer this question:
Explain the cultural relevance of the show, given the information gathered from the show's background, and cultural history. How can television act as a reflection of the social, political, and cultural current events?
.
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2.Summarize the benefits for Apple from Mr. Blevins' supplier management tactics.
3.Provide one example of when suppliers chose not to support Apple and Mr. Blevins' tactics. What was the impact on the supplier that resulted from this choice?
4.Do you think Apple and Mr. Blevins' supplier management approach would be as effective if the company was not as successful as it currently is? Why or why not?
5.If Mr. Blevins left Apple and you took his place, how would you feel about continuing his tactics? Why? Would you change anything? Why or why not?
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For this Portfolio Project, you will write a paper about John A.docxevonnehoggarth79783
For this Portfolio Project, you will write a paper about "John Adams" as well as any event in U.S. history that is relevant to your major area of study or of interest to you. You will write about John Adams from the perspective of another historical personality who lived at the same time as the person or event you are going to describe.
For your historical personality, try to select someone from an under-represented population (examples of possible perspectives include that of Anne Hutchinson, Pocahontas, or Sojourner Truth). This analysis is to make you think about how events/people’s actions were interpreted at the time.
Key Points::
Remember that you will be writing from the perspective of a historical person about another person or an event from a period of U.S. history up to Reconstruction. From your historical person’s perspective, provide a thorough summary of the person or event you’ve chosen to write about, including the incidents that took place and any key individuals involved or affected.
Address the general importance of the person or event in the context of U.S. history.
Now, explain specifically how the person or event changed “your” daily life—“you” being the historical persona you have adopted.
Think long-term: How will the person or the event you are describing make a long-term impact in the lives of people who are in the under-represented group to which your historical person/perspective belongs?
Paper Requirements:
Your paper must be four to six pages, not including the required references and title pages.
Use at least five sources, not including the textbook. Include a scholarly journal article. Include at least one
primary
source from those identified in the syllabus.
Definition of a Primary Source
: A primary source is any source, document or artifact that was created at the time of the event. It was usually created by someone who witnessed the event, lived during or even shortly afterwards, or somehow would have first-hand knowledge of that event. A secondary source, by contrast, is written by a historian or someone writing about the event after it happened.
Have an introduction and strong thesis statement. Make use of support and examples supporting your thesis
Finish with a forceful conclusion reiterating your main idea.
Format your paper according to the
CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA Requirements
(Links to an external site.)
.
.
For this portfolio assignment, you are required to research and anal.docxevonnehoggarth79783
For this portfolio assignment, you are required to research and analyze a TV program that ran between 1955 and 1965.
To successfully complete this essay, you will need to answer the following questions:
What is the background of this show? Explain what years it was on TV, describe the channel it aired on, the main characters, setting, etc..
What social issues and historical events were taking place at the time the show was being broadcast?
Did these issues affect the television show in any way?
Did the television show make an impact on popular culture?
Your thesis for the essay should attempt to answer this question:
Explain the cultural relevance of the show, given the information gathered from the show's background, and cultural history. How can television act as a reflection of the social, political, and cultural current events?
.
For this paper, discuss the similarities and differences of the .docxevonnehoggarth79783
For this paper, discuss the similarities and differences of the impacts of the causes of the 2008 Great Recession and the current world crisis with the CoVID-19 virus*
How did the regulations you've studied over the past few chapters and in the Financial Crisis Chapter (Chapter 12) prepare banks and other financial institutions to better weather the effects of the stay-at-home orders and other impacts of the pandemic? Are there other regulations that could be placed on the banking industry that would make sense and help them through these trying times?
*Note: I am not trying to downplay or minimize in any way the "human" impact or any other non-economic impacts of the virus; this paper is just focusing on one component of the costs, among the many different impacts (perhaps much more important impacts)
4 pages 4 resources
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For this paper, discuss the similarities and differences of the impa.docxevonnehoggarth79783
For this paper, discuss the similarities and differences of the impacts of the causes of the 2008 Great Recession and the current world crisis with the CoVID-19 virus*
How did the regulations you've studied over the past few chapters and in the Financial Crisis Chapter (Chapter 12) prepare banks and other financial institutions to better weather the effects of the stay-at-home orders and other impacts of the pandemic? Are there other regulations that could be placed on the banking industry that would make sense and help them through these trying times?
*Note: I am not trying to downplay or minimize in any way the "human" impact or any other non-economic impacts of the virus; this paper is just focusing on one component of the costs, among the many different impacts (perhaps much more important impacts)
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For this paper choose two mythological narratives that we have exami.docxevonnehoggarth79783
For this paper choose two mythological narratives that we have examined so far in this course, or that you are otherwise personally familiar with. The two myths that you choose should have one or more elements in common, possibly including (but not limited to):
Overarching story (e.g., creation, flood) or story elements (e.g., descent into the underworld, establishment of divine rulership, rapture of mortals by gods, divine disguise)
Narrative structure (e.g., repetitive patterns, discursion)
Themes (e.g., love, jealousy, mortality, revenge, mutability/transformation, limits of human power/knowledge)
Characters (e.g., tricksters)
Cultural functions (e.g., reinforcement of societal norms, explanation of origins of society, explanation of natural phenomena, incorporation in ritual practices, entertainment)
Compare and contrast the two myths you choose, taking into consideration the various elements noted above and any others you deem relevant. (In making comparisons, you do not necessarily need to apply the specifically "comparativist" approach discussed in the course as one historical strand of mythological analysis.)
While you are welcome to reference external sources, this is not a research paper and the use of secondary sources is not required or expected. If you choose to examine a myth not discussed in the course, however, please indicate the source from which you have taken this.
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For this module, there is only one option. You are to begin to deve.docxevonnehoggarth79783
For this module, there is only one option. You are to begin to develop your diversity consciousness by
identifying a current event in the news pertaining to social inequality in terms social class, gender, or racial ethnicity.
You are to
provide the link to this news article and analyze
the report including in your discussion the following:
What social inequality is being demonstrated in this current even? Describe it
What relationship is going on between the “majority” and “minority group.” Define who is the majority and who is the minority. Describe why you have identified the group as minority and majority.
Who is being marginalized in this event? How? Why do you believe they are being marginalized?
Is any group being “blamed” in this event? Is this “blame” at the individual level or the societal level – or both?
Who has the power in this situation? What is that power?
Who has the privilege in this situation? What is that privilege?
What suggestions do you have that would assist in addressing this social inequality?
What did you learn? (How did this develop your diversity consciousness?)
need to cite using apa and needs to be at least 250 words
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For this Major Assignment 2, you will finalize your analysis in .docxevonnehoggarth79783
For this Major Assignment 2, you will finalize your analysis in your Part 3, Results section, and finalize your presentation of results from the different data sources. Also, for this week, you will complete the Part 4, Trustworthiness and Summary section to finalize the last part of this Major Assignment 2.
To prepare for this Assignment:
· Review the social change articles found in this week’s Learning Resources.
Part 4: Trustworthiness and Summary
D. Trustworthiness—summarize across the different data sources and respond to the following:
o What themes are in common?
o What sources have different themes?
o Explain the trustworthiness of your findings, in terms of:
§ Credibility
§ Transferability
§ Dependability strategies
§ Confirmability
Summary
· Based on the results of your analyses, how would you answer the question: “What is the meaning of social change for Walden graduate students?”
· Self-Reflection—Has your own understanding of you as a positive social change agent changed? Explain your reasoning.
· Based on your review of the three articles on social change, which one is aligned with your interests regarding social change and why?
By Day 7
Submit
Parts 1, 2, 3, and 4 of your Major Assignment 2.
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For this Final Visual Analysis Project, you will choose one website .docxevonnehoggarth79783
For this Final Visual Analysis Project, you will choose one website that you visit frequently (it must be a professional business website, not your own personal website). Feel free to use websites such as Nike, Apple, Northwestern Mutual, etc. or a website that applies to your career choices.
Once you choose your website, you will begin to consider the effects the visual elements have on the viewers and
create a thesis statement and outline using the response elements 1-5 below.
For the Thesis & Outline TEMPLATE document click
here
.
APA title page, reference page, and formatting.
Use at least four academic/scholarly sources.
Use properly cited quotes and paraphrases when necessary.
Complete, polished, and error-free cohesive sentences.
Contains an introduction, body, and conclusion.
Sensory Response –
When analyzing the viewer’s sensory response to a particular visual, it is important to consider the visual elements that attract the eyes. Close your eyes when considering a visual. When you open your eyes, what are the first visual elements that you see? When analyzing a viewer’s Sensory Response, you may consider analyzing at least two of the following effects:
Colors
Lines
Shapes
Balance
Contrast
Perceptual Response –
When analyzing a viewer’s perception of visuals, it is important to consider the audience. Consider who is or is not attracted to this type of visual communication. When analyzing a viewer’s Perceptual Response, consider at least two of the following effects:
Target audience specifics (age, profession, gender, financial status, etc.)
Cultural familiarity elements (ethnicity, religious preference, social groups, etc)
Cognitive visuals (viewer’s memories, experiences, values, beliefs, etc.)
Technical Response –
When analyzing a viewer’s response to certain visuals, we need to consider the technical visual aspects that may affect perception. Describe how visuals affect the interpretation of the intended media communication message. Address specific technological elements that impact perception. When analyzing the Technical Response, consider the Laws of Perceptual Organization (similarity, proximity, continuity, common fate, etc), and at least two of the following types of visuals:
Drop-down menus
Hover-over highlighting
Animations
Quality of visuals
Emotional Response
– When analyzing a viewer’s Emotional Response, it is important to consider the targeted audience preferences and emotional intelligence. Discuss what the viewer might want to see and what type of visual presentation will set the tone for that response. When analyzing the Emotional Response, consider the effects of at least two of the following types of visuals:
Mood setting colors
Mood setting lighting
Persuasive images
Positioning of search or purchase buttons
Social media icons and share options
Ethical Response -
When analyzing a viewer’s Ethical Response, it is important to consider the ta.
For this essay, you will select one of the sources you have found th.docxevonnehoggarth79783
For this essay, you will select one of the sources you have found through your preliminary research about your research topic (see Assignment 1.1). Which source you choose is up to you; however, it should be substantial enough that you will be able to talk about it at length, and intricate enough that it will keep you (and your reader) interested. For more info see attached document
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For this discussion, you will address the following prompts. Keep in.docxevonnehoggarth79783
For this discussion, you will address the following prompts. Keep in mind that the article or video you’ve chosen should not be about critical thinking, but should be about someone making a statement, claim, or argument related to Povetry & Income equality. One source should demonstrate good critical thinking skills and the other source should demonstrate the lack or absence of critical thinking skills. Personal examples should not be used.
1. Explain at least five elements of critical thinking that you found in the reading material.
2.Search the Internet, media, and find an example in which good critical thinking skills are being demonstrated by the author or speaker. Summarize the content and explain why you think it demonstrates good critical thinking skills.
3.Search the Internet, media, or and find an example in which the author or speaker lacks good critical thinking skills. Summarize the content and explain why you think it demonstrates the absence of good, critical thinking skills.
Your initial post should be at least 250 words in length, which should include a thorough response to each question.
Due midnight Thursday April 22,2020
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For this discussion, research a recent science news event that h.docxevonnehoggarth79783
For this discussion, research a recent science news event that has occurred in the last six months. The event should come from a well-known news source, such as ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, NPR, PBS, BBC, National Geographic, The New York Times, and so on. Post a link to the news story, and in your initial post:
* Summarize your news story and its contributions to the science or STEM fields
* If your news event is overtly related to globalization, explain how this event contributes to global studies. If your news event does not directly relate to globalization, how could the science behind your event be applied to global studies?
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For this Discussion, review the case Learning Resources and the .docxevonnehoggarth79783
For this Discussion, review the case Learning Resources and the case study excerpt presented. Reflect on the case study excerpt and consider the therapy approaches you might take to assess, diagnose, and treat the patient’s health needs.
Case: An elderly widow who just lost her spouse.
Subjective: A patient presents to your primary care office today with chief complaint of insomnia. Patient is 75 YO with PMH of DM, HTN, and MDD. Her husband of 41 years passed away 10 months ago. Since then, she states her depression has gotten worse as well as her sleep habits. The patient has no previous history of depression prior to her husband’s death. She is awake, alert, and oriented x3. Patient normally sees PCP once or twice a year. Patient denies any suicidal ideations. Patient arrived at the office today by private vehicle. Patient currently takes the following medications:
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Metformin 500mg BID
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Januvia 100mg daily
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Losartan 100mg daily
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HCTZ 25mg daily
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Sertraline 100mg daily
Current weight: 88 kg
Current height: 64 inches
Temp: 98.6 degrees F
BP: 132/86
By Day 3 of Week 7
Post
a response to each of the following:
• List three questions you might ask the patient if she were in your office. Provide a rationale for why you might ask these questions.
• Identify people in the patient’s life you would need to speak to or get feedback from to further assess the patient’s situation. Include specific questions you might ask these people and why.
• Explain what, if any, physical exams, and diagnostic tests would be appropriate for the patient and how the results would be used.
• List a differential diagnosis for the patient. Identify the one that you think is most likely and explain why.
• List two pharmacologic agents and their dosing that would be appropriate for the patient’s antidepressant therapy based on pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics. From a mechanism of action perspective, provide a rationale for why you might choose one agent over the other.
• For the drug therapy you select, identify any contraindications to use or alterations in dosing that may need to be considered based on the client’s ethnicity. Discuss why the contraindication/alteration you identify exists. That is, what would be problematic with the use of this drug in individuals of other ethnicities?
• Include any “check points” (i.e., follow-up data at Week 4, 8, 12, etc.), and indicate any therapeutic changes that you might make based on possible outcomes that may happen given your treatment options chosen.
Respond to the these discussions. All questions need to be addressed.
Discussion 2 Me
Treatment of a Patient with Insomnia
The case presented this week, is that of a 75-year-old widow who just lost her spouse 10-months ago. Th patient presents with chief complaints of insomnia. Past medical history of DM, HTN, and MDD is reported. Since the passing of her husband, she states her depression has gotten worse .
For this Discussion, give an example of how an event in one part.docxevonnehoggarth79783
For this Discussion, give an example of how an event in one part of the world can cause a response elsewhere in the world:
Reviewing the aspects of your event, analyze the cause and effect of global influences through direct or indirect means.
What aspects of diversity are evident in your event?
How can understanding diversity benefit a society?
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For this discussion, consider the role of the LPN and the RN in .docxevonnehoggarth79783
For this discussion, consider the role of the LPN and the RN in the nursing process.
How would the LPN and RN collaborate to develop the nursing plan of care to ensure the patient is achieving their goal?
What are the role expectations for the LPN and RN in the nursing process?
Pls include two references and intext citation.
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For this discussion, after you have viewed the videos on this topi.docxevonnehoggarth79783
For this discussion, after you have viewed the videos on this topic posted in this week's assignment, please answer the questions posted with this week's discussion.
After posting your individual answers to questions, you are required to respond to 2 students answers with meaningful/thoughtful input on their comments. Your responses must be minimum of a paragraph with at least 3 sentences. Your comments to 2 students
Video #1: History of Homosexuality on Film -- https://youtu.be/SeDhMKd83r4
Video #2: The Gay Culture, According to Television -- https://youtu.be/EbdxRZJfRp4
Video #3: Top 10 Groundbreaking Moments for LGBTQ Characters on TV -- https://youtu.be/yXJAzPJFjQ8
Video #4: I'm Gay, But I'm not ... -- https://criticalmediaproject.org/im-gay-but-im-not/
Video #5: Acting Gay - One Word Cut -- https://youtu.be/a4jfiqiIy0A
LGBTQ+ Questions:
· Name some common stereotypes associated with LGBTQ community?
· What role does media play in establishing & perpetuating these stereotypes?
· Name 2 LGBTQ characters, 1 one from current show/movie; 1 from 10-15 years ago
. Are there differences in the characters?
. Have things changed? Evolved? Improved?
· Are LGBTQ characters portrayed differently than straight characters?
· Why do stories involving LGBTQ characters revolve around their sexuality or sexual orientation?
Acting Gay - One Word: What is your one-word association with the saying "Acting Gay"? Why did you choose this word?
Jarrett Kelley
LGBTQ Discussion
COLLAPSE
Top of Form
1. Some common stereotypes that coincide with the LGBTQ community are promiscuous, non-religious, flamboyant, mentally ill, high sex drives, etc.
2. The media plays a role in establishing these stereotypes because the general public is always watching these shows, reading the news, and listening to stories about different cultures and groups and media that they may not see or interact with in their lives. Therefore, media is an outlet to show these things in a easy way to gain knowledge about people without meeting people face-to-face apart of these groups when sometimes the stereotypes shown can't represent everyone in those groups.
3. Currently, in Marvel's Runaways, that ended in December, there are two lesbian superheros that share a kiss at the end of a season. Karolina, one of the characters, wants to get away from her childhood of religious upbringing and wants to pursue her own life with her superpower of glowing colors. Nico is shown with a Gothic appearance and can be seen as aggressive but down to earth as well. The War at Home was a television show on Fox and a character named Kenny, who is sixteen years old, is kicked out of his house by his parents after finding out he is gay.
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1. 72 of 1000 DOCUMENTS
The New York Times
January 22, 2012 Sunday
Correction Appended
Late Edition - Final
How U.S. Lost Out On iPhone Work
BYLINE: By CHARLES DUHIGG and KEITH BRADSHER;
David Barboza, Peter Lattman and Catherine Rampell
contributed reporting.
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When Barack Obama joined Silicon Valley's top luminaries for
dinner in California last February, each guest was
asked to come with a question for the president.
But as Steven P. Jobs of Apple spoke, President Obama
interrupted with an inquiry of his own: what would it take to
make iPhones in the United States?
Not long ago, Apple boasted that its products were made in
America. Today, few are. Almost all of the 70 million
iPhones, 30 million iPads and 59 million other products Apple
sold last year were manufactured overseas.
2. Why can't that work come home? Mr. Obama asked.
Mr. Jobs's reply was unambiguous. ''Those jobs aren't coming
back,'' he said, according to another dinner guest.
The president's question touched upon a central conviction at
Apple. It isn't just that workers are cheaper abroad.
Rather, Apple's executives believe the vast scale of overseas
factories as well as the flexibility, diligence and industrial
skills of foreign workers have so outpaced their American
counterparts that ''Made in the U.S.A.'' is no longer a viable
option for most Apple products.
Apple has become one of the best-known, most admired and
most imitated companies on earth, in part through an
unrelenting mastery of global operations. Last year, it earned
over $400,000 in profit per employee, more than Goldman
Sachs, Exxon Mobil or Google.
However, what has vexed Mr. Obama as well as economists and
policy makers is that Apple -- and many of its
high-technology peers -- are not nearly as avid in creating
American jobs as other famous companies were in their
heydays.
Apple employs 43,000 people in the United States and 20,000
overseas, a small fraction of the over 400,000 American
workers at General Motors in the 1950s, or the hundreds of
thousands at General Electric in the 1980s. Many more
people work for Apple's contractors: an additional 700,000
people engineer, build and assemble iPads, iPhones and
Apple's other products. But almost none of them work in the
United States. Instead, they work for foreign companies in
Asia, Europe and elsewhere, at factories that almost all
electronics designers rely upon to build their wares.
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''Apple's an example of why it's so hard to create middle-class
jobs in the U.S. now,'' said Jared Bernstein, who until
last year was an economic adviser to the White House.
''If it's the pinnacle of capitalism, we should be worried.''
Apple executives say that going overseas, at this point, is their
only option. One former executive described how the
company relied upon a Chinese factory to revamp iPhone
manufacturing just weeks before the device was due on
shelves. Apple had redesigned the iPhone's screen at the last
minute, forcing an assembly line overhaul. New screens
began arriving at the plant near midnight.
A foreman immediately roused 8,000 workers inside the
company's dormitories, according to the executive. Each
employee was given a biscuit and a cup of tea, guided to a
workstation and within half an hour started a 12-hour shift
fitting glass screens into beveled frames. Within 96 hours, the
plant was producing over 10,000 iPhones a day.
''The speed and flexibility is breathtaking,'' the executive said.
''There's no American plant that can match that.''
Similar stories could be told about almost any electronics
company -- and outsourcing has also become common in
hundreds of industries, including accounting, legal services,
banking, auto manufacturing and pharmaceuticals.
But while Apple is far from alone, it offers a window into why
the success of some prominent companies has not
4. translated into large numbers of domestic jobs. What's more, the
company's decisions pose broader questions about
what corporate America owes Americans as the global and
national economies are increasingly intertwined.
''Companies once felt an obligation to support American
workers, even when it wasn't the best financial choice,'' said
Betsey Stevenson, the chief economist at the Labor Department
until last September. ''That's disappeared. Profits and
efficiency have trumped generosity.''
Companies and other economists say that notion is naive.
Though Americans are among the most educated workers in
the world, the nation has stopped training enough people in the
mid-level skills that factories need, executives say.
To thrive, companies argue they need to move work where it
can generate enough profits to keep paying for innovation.
Doing otherwise risks losing even more American jobs over
time, as evidenced by the legions of once-proud domestic
manufacturers -- including G.M. and others -- that have shrunk
as nimble competitors have emerged.
Apple was provided with extensive summaries of The New York
Times's reporting for this article, but the company,
which has a reputation for secrecy, declined to comment.
This article is based on interviews with more than three dozen
current and former Apple employees and contractors --
many of whom requested anonymity to protect their jobs -- as
well as economists, manufacturing experts, international
trade specialists, technology analysts, academic researchers,
employees at Apple's suppliers, competitors and corporate
partners, and government officials.
Privately, Apple executives say the world is now such a
5. changed place that it is a mistake to measure a company's
contribution simply by tallying its employees -- though they
note that Apple employs more workers in the United States
than ever before.
They say Apple's success has benefited the economy by
empowering entrepreneurs and creating jobs at companies like
cellular providers and businesses shipping Apple products. And,
ultimately, they say curing unemployment is not their
job.
''We sell iPhones in over a hundred countries,'' a current Apple
executive said. ''We don't have an obligation to solve
America's problems. Our only obligation is making the best
product possible.''
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'I Want a Glass Screen'
In 2007, a little over a month before the iPhone was scheduled
to appear in stores, Mr. Jobs beckoned a handful of
lieutenants into an office. For weeks, he had been carrying a
prototype of the device in his pocket.
Mr. Jobs angrily held up his iPhone, angling it so everyone
could see the dozens of tiny scratches marring its plastic
screen, according to someone who attended the meeting. He
then pulled his keys from his jeans.
People will carry this phone in their pocket, he said. People also
carry their keys in their pocket. ''I won't sell a product
6. that gets scratched,'' he said tensely. The only solution was
using unscratchable glass instead. ''I want a glass screen, and
I want it perfect in six weeks.''
After one executive left that meeting, he booked a flight to
Shenzhen, China. If Mr. Jobs wanted perfect, there was
nowhere else to go.
For over two years, the company had been working on a project
-- code-named Purple 2 -- that presented the same
questions at every turn: how do you completely reimagine the
cellphone? And how do you design it at the highest
quality -- with an unscratchable screen, for instance -- while
also ensuring that millions can be manufactured quickly
and inexpensively enough to earn a significant profit?
The answers, almost every time, were found outside the United
States. Though components differ between versions, all
iPhones contain hundreds of parts, an estimated 90 percent of
which are manufactured abroad. Advanced
semiconductors have come from Germany and Taiwan, memory
from Korea and Japan, display panels and circuitry
from Korea and Taiwan, chipsets from Europe and rare metals
from Africa and Asia. And all of it is put together in
China.
In its early days, Apple usually didn't look beyond its own
backyard for manufacturing solutions. A few years after
Apple began building the Macintosh in 1983, for instance, Mr.
Jobs bragged that it was ''a machine that is made in
America.'' In 1990, while Mr. Jobs was running NeXT, which
was eventually bought by Apple, the executive told a
reporter that ''I'm as proud of the factory as I am of the
computer.'' As late as 2002, top Apple executives occasionally
drove two hours northeast of their headquarters to visit the
company's iMac plant in Elk Grove, Calif.
7. But by 2004, Apple had largely turned to foreign
manufacturing. Guiding that decision was Apple's operations
expert,
Timothy D. Cook, who replaced Mr. Jobs as chief executive last
August, six weeks before Mr. Jobs's death. Most other
American electronics companies had already gone abroad, and
Apple, which at the time was struggling, felt it had to
grasp every advantage.
In part, Asia was attractive because the semiskilled workers
there were cheaper. But that wasn't driving Apple. For
technology companies, the cost of labor is minimal compared
with the expense of buying parts and managing supply
chains that bring together components and services from
hundreds of companies.
For Mr. Cook, the focus on Asia ''came down to two things,''
said one former high-ranking Apple executive. Factories
in Asia ''can scale up and down faster'' and ''Asian supply
chains have surpassed what's in the U.S.'' The result is that
''we can't compete at this point,'' the executive said.
The impact of such advantages became obvious as soon as Mr.
Jobs demanded glass screens in 2007.
For years, cellphone makers had avoided using glass because it
required precision in cutting and grinding that was
extremely difficult to achieve. Apple had already selected an
American company, Corning Inc., to manufacture large
panes of strengthened glass. But figuring out how to cut those
panes into millions of iPhone screens required finding an
empty cutting plant, hundreds of pieces of glass to use in
experiments and an army of midlevel engineers. It would cost
a fortune simply to prepare.
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Then a bid for the work arrived from a Chinese factory.
When an Apple team visited, the Chinese plant's owners were
already constructing a new wing. ''This is in case you
give us the contract,'' the manager said, according to a former
Apple executive. The Chinese government had agreed to
underwrite costs for numerous industries, and those subsidies
had trickled down to the glass-cutting factory. It had a
warehouse filled with glass samples available to Apple, free of
charge. The owners made engineers available at almost
no cost. They had built on-site dormitories so employees would
be available 24 hours a day.
The Chinese plant got the job.
''The entire supply chain is in China now,'' said another former
high-ranking Apple executive. ''You need a thousand
rubber gaskets? That's the factory next door. You need a million
screws? That factory is a block away. You need that
screw made a little bit different? It will take three hours.''
In Foxconn City
An eight-hour drive from that glass factory is a complex, known
informally as Foxconn City, where the iPhone is
assembled. To Apple executives, Foxconn City was further
evidence that China could deliver workers -- and diligence
-- that outpaced their American counterparts.
That's because nothing like Foxconn City exists in the United
9. States.
The facility has 230,000 employees, many working six days a
week, often spending up to 12 hours a day at the plant.
Over a quarter of Foxconn's work force lives in company
barracks and many workers earn less than $17 a day. When
one Apple executive arrived during a shift change, his car was
stuck in a river of employees streaming past. ''The scale
is unimaginable,'' he said.
Foxconn employs nearly 300 guards to direct foot traffic so
workers are not crushed in doorway bottlenecks. The
facility's central kitchen cooks an average of three tons of pork
and 13 tons of rice a day. While factories are spotless,
the air inside nearby teahouses is hazy with the smoke and
stench of cigarettes.
Foxconn Technology has dozens of facilities in Asia and
Eastern Europe, and in Mexico and Brazil, and it assembles an
estimated 40 percent of the world's consumer electronics for
customers like Amazon, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Motorola,
Nintendo, Nokia, Samsung and Sony.
''They could hire 3,000 people overnight,'' said Jennifer Rigoni,
who was Apple's worldwide supply demand manager
until 2010, but declined to discuss specifics of her work. ''What
U.S. plant can find 3,000 people overnight and convince
them to live in dorms?''
In mid-2007, after a month of experimentation, Apple's
engineers finally perfected a method for cutting strengthened
glass so it could be used in the iPhone's screen. The first
truckloads of cut glass arrived at Foxconn City in the dead of
night, according to the former Apple executive. That's when
managers woke thousands of workers, who crawled into
their uniforms -- white and black shirts for men, red for women
10. -- and quickly lined up to assemble, by hand, the
phones. Within three months, Apple had sold one million
iPhones. Since then, Foxconn has assembled over 200 million
more.
Foxconn, in statements, declined to speak about specific clients.
''Any worker recruited by our firm is covered by a clear contract
outlining terms and conditions and by Chinese
government law that protects their rights,'' the company wrote.
Foxconn ''takes our responsibility to our employees very
seriously and we work hard to give our more than one million
employees a safe and positive environment.''
The company disputed some details of the former Apple
executive's account, and wrote that a midnight shift, such as
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the one described, was impossible ''because we have strict
regulations regarding the working hours of our employees
based on their designated shifts, and every employee has
computerized timecards that would bar them from working at
any facility at a time outside of their approved shift.'' The
company said that all shifts began at either 7 a.m. or 7 p.m.,
and that employees receive at least 12 hours' notice of any
schedule changes.
Foxconn employees, in interviews, have challenged those
assertions.
Another critical advantage for Apple was that China provided
11. engineers at a scale the United States could not match.
Apple's executives had estimated that about 8,700 industrial
engineers were needed to oversee and guide the 200,000
assembly-line workers eventually involved in manufacturing
iPhones. The company's analysts had forecast it would
take as long as nine months to find that many qualified
engineers in the United States.
In China, it took 15 days.
Companies like Apple ''say the challenge in setting up U.S.
plants is finding a technical work force,'' said Martin
Schmidt, associate provost at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. In particular, companies say they need
engineers with more than high school, but not necessarily a
bachelor's degree. Americans at that skill level are hard to
find, executives contend. ''They're good jobs, but the country
doesn't have enough to feed the demand,'' Mr. Schmidt
said.
Some aspects of the iPhone are uniquely American. The device's
software, for instance, and its innovative marketing
campaigns were largely created in the United States. Apple
recently built a $500 million data center in North Carolina.
Crucial semiconductors inside the iPhone 4 and 4S are
manufactured in an Austin, Tex., factory by Samsung, of South
Korea.
But even those facilities are not enormous sources of jobs.
Apple's North Carolina center, for instance, has only 100
full-time employees. The Samsung plant has an estimated 2,400
workers.
''If you scale up from selling one million phones to 30 million
phones, you don't really need more programmers,'' said
Jean-Louis Gassee, who oversaw product development and
12. marketing for Apple until he left in 1990. ''All these new
companies -- Facebook, Google, Twitter -- benefit from this.
They grow, but they don't really need to hire much.''
It is hard to estimate how much more it would cost to build
iPhones in the United States. However, various academics
and manufacturing analysts estimate that because labor is such a
small part of technology manufacturing, paying
American wages would add up to $65 to each iPhone's expense.
Since Apple's profits are often hundreds of dollars per
phone, building domestically, in theory, would still give the
company a healthy reward.
But such calculations are, in many respects, meaningless
because building the iPhone in the United States would
demand much more than hiring Americans -- it would require
transforming the national and global economies. Apple
executives believe there simply aren't enough American workers
with the skills the company needs or factories with
sufficient speed and flexibility. Other companies that work with
Apple, like Corning, also say they must go abroad.
Manufacturing glass for the iPhone revived a Corning factory in
Kentucky, and today, much of the glass in iPhones is
still made there. After the iPhone became a success, Corning
received a flood of orders from other companies hoping to
imitate Apple's designs. Its strengthened glass sales have grown
to more than $700 million a year, and it has hired or
continued employing about 1,000 Americans to support the
emerging market.
But as that market has expanded, the bulk of Corning's
strengthened glass manufacturing has occurred at plants in
Japan
and Taiwan.
13. ''Our customers are in Taiwan, Korea, Japan and China,'' said
James B. Flaws, Corning's vice chairman and chief
financial officer. ''We could make the glass here, and then ship
it by boat, but that takes 35 days. Or, we could ship it by
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air, but that's 10 times as expensive. So we build our glass
factories next door to assembly factories, and those are
overseas.''
Corning was founded in America 161 years ago and its
headquarters are still in upstate New York. Theoretically, the
company could manufacture all its glass domestically. But it
would ''require a total overhaul in how the industry is
structured,'' Mr. Flaws said. ''The consumer electronics business
has become an Asian business. As an American, I
worry about that, but there's nothing I can do to stop it. Asia
has become what the U.S. was for the last 40 years.''
Middle-Class Jobs Fade
The first time Eric Saragoza stepped into Apple's manufacturing
plant in Elk Grove, Calif., he felt as if he were
entering an engineering wonderland.
It was 1995, and the facility near Sacramento employed more
than 1,500 workers. It was a kaleidoscope of robotic arms,
conveyor belts ferrying circuit boards and, eventually, candy-
colored iMacs in various stages of assembly. Mr.
Saragoza, an engineer, quickly moved up the plant's ranks and
joined an elite diagnostic team. His salary climbed to
14. $50,000. He and his wife had three children. They bought a
home with a pool.
''It felt like, finally, school was paying off,'' he said. ''I knew
the world needed people who can build things.''
At the same time, however, the electronics industry was
changing, and Apple -- with products that were declining in
popularity -- was struggling to remake itself. One focus was
improving manufacturing. A few years after Mr. Saragoza
started his job, his bosses explained how the California plant
stacked up against overseas factories: the cost, excluding
the materials, of building a $1,500 computer in Elk Grove was
$22 a machine. In Singapore, it was $6. In Taiwan,
$4.85. Wages weren't the major reason for the disparities.
Rather it was costs like inventory and how long it took
workers to finish a task.
''We were told we would have to do 12-hour days, and come in
on Saturdays,'' Mr. Saragoza said. ''I had a family. I
wanted to see my kids play soccer.''
Modernization has always caused some kinds of jobs to change
or disappear. As the American economy transitioned
from agriculture to manufacturing and then to other industries,
farmers became steelworkers, and then salesmen and
middle managers. These shifts have carried many economic
benefits, and in general, with each progression, even
unskilled workers received better wages and greater chances at
upward mobility.
But in the last two decades, something more fundamental has
changed, economists say. Midwage jobs started
disappearing. Particularly among Americans without college
degrees, today's new jobs are disproportionately in service
occupations -- at restaurants or call centers, or as hospital
15. attendants or temporary workers -- that offer fewer
opportunities for reaching the middle class.
Even Mr. Saragoza, with his college degree, was vulnerable to
these trends. First, some of Elk Grove's routine tasks
were sent overseas. Mr. Saragoza didn't mind. Then the robotics
that made Apple a futuristic playground allowed
executives to replace workers with machines. Some diagnostic
engineering went to Singapore. Middle managers who
oversaw the plant's inventory were laid off because, suddenly, a
few people with Internet connections were all that were
needed.
Mr. Saragoza was too expensive for an unskilled position. He
was also insufficiently credentialed for upper
management. He was called into a small office in 2002 after a
night shift, laid off and then escorted from the plant. He
taught high school for a while, and then tried a return to
technology. But Apple, which had helped anoint the region as
''Silicon Valley North,'' had by then converted much of the Elk
Grove plant into an AppleCare call center, where new
employees often earn $12 an hour.
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There were employment prospects in Silicon Valley, but none of
them panned out. ''What they really want are
30-year-olds without children,'' said Mr. Saragoza, who today is
48, and whose family now includes five of his own.
After a few months of looking for work, he started feeling
desperate. Even teaching jobs had dried up. So he took a
16. position with an electronics temp agency that had been hired by
Apple to check returned iPhones and iPads before they
were sent back to customers. Every day, Mr. Saragoza would
drive to the building where he had once worked as an
engineer, and for $10 an hour with no benefits, wipe thousands
of glass screens and test audio ports by plugging in
headphones.
Paydays for Apple
As Apple's overseas operations and sales have expanded, its top
employees have thrived. Last fiscal year, Apple's
revenue topped $108 billion, a sum larger than the combined
state budgets of Michigan, New Jersey and Massachusetts.
Since 2005, when the company's stock split, share prices have
risen from about $45 to more than $427.
Some of that wealth has gone to shareholders. Apple is among
the most widely held stocks, and the rising share price
has benefited millions of individual investors, 401(k)'s and
pension plans. The bounty has also enriched Apple workers.
Last fiscal year, in addition to their salaries, Apple's employees
and directors received stock worth $2 billion and
exercised or vested stock and options worth an added $1.4
billion.
The biggest rewards, however, have often gone to Apple's top
employees. Mr. Cook, Apple's chief, last year received
stock grants -- which vest over a 10-year period -- that, at
today's share price, would be worth $427 million, and his
salary was raised to $1.4 million. In 2010, Mr. Cook's
compensation package was valued at $59 million, according to
Apple's security filings.
A person close to Apple argued that the compensation received
by Apple's employees was fair, in part because the
17. company had brought so much value to the nation and world. As
the company has grown, it has expanded its domestic
work force, including manufacturing jobs. Last year, Apple's
American work force grew by 8,000 people.
While other companies have sent call centers abroad, Apple has
kept its centers in the United States. One source
estimated that sales of Apple's products have caused other
companies to hire tens of thousands of Americans. FedEx
and United Parcel Service, for instance, both say they have
created American jobs because of the volume of Apple's
shipments, though neither would provide specific figures
without permission from Apple, which the company declined
to provide.
''We shouldn't be criticized for using Chinese workers,'' a
current Apple executive said. ''The U.S. has stopped
producing people with the skills we need.''
What's more, Apple sources say the company has created plenty
of good American jobs inside its retail stores and
among entrepreneurs selling iPhone and iPad applications.
After two months of testing iPads, Mr. Saragoza quit. The pay
was so low that he was better off, he figured, spending
those hours applying for other jobs. On a recent October
evening, while Mr. Saragoza sat at his MacBook and submitted
another round of resumes online, halfway around the world a
woman arrived at her office. The worker, Lina Lin, is a
project manager in Shenzhen, China, at PCH International,
which contracts with Apple and other electronics companies
to coordinate production of accessories, like the cases that
protect the iPad's glass screens. She is not an Apple
employee. But Mrs. Lin is integral to Apple's ability to deliver
its products.
18. Mrs. Lin earns a bit less than what Mr. Saragoza was paid by
Apple. She speaks fluent English, learned from watching
television and in a Chinese university. She and her husband put
a quarter of their salaries in the bank every month. They
live in a 1,080-square-foot apartment, which they share with
their in-laws and son.
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''There are lots of jobs,'' Mrs. Lin said. ''Especially in
Shenzhen.''
Innovation's Losers
Toward the end of Mr. Obama's dinner last year with Mr. Jobs
and other Silicon Valley executives, as everyone stood
to leave, a crowd of photo seekers formed around the president.
A slightly smaller scrum gathered around Mr. Jobs.
Rumors had spread that his illness had worsened, and some
hoped for a photograph with him, perhaps for the last time.
Eventually, the orbits of the men overlapped. ''I'm not worried
about the country's long-term future,'' Mr. Jobs told Mr.
Obama, according to one observer. ''This country is insanely
great. What I'm worried about is that we don't talk enough
about solutions.''
At dinner, for instance, the executives had suggested that the
government should reform visa programs to help
companies hire foreign engineers. Some had urged the president
to give companies a ''tax holiday'' so they could bring
back overseas profits which, they argued, would be used to
19. create work. Mr. Jobs even suggested it might be possible,
someday, to locate some of Apple's skilled manufacturing in the
United States if the government helped train more
American engineers.
Economists debate the usefulness of those and other efforts, and
note that a struggling economy is sometimes
transformed by unexpected developments. The last time analysts
wrung their hands about prolonged American
unemployment, for instance, in the early 1980s, the Internet
hardly existed. Few at the time would have guessed that a
degree in graphic design was rapidly becoming a smart bet,
while studying telephone repair a dead end.
What remains unknown, however, is whether the United States
will be able to leverage tomorrow's innovations into
millions of jobs.
In the last decade, technological leaps in solar and wind energy,
semiconductor fabrication and display technologies
have created thousands of jobs. But while many of those
industries started in America, much of the employment has
occurred abroad. Companies have closed major facilities in the
United States to reopen in China. By way of
explanation, executives say they are competing with Apple for
shareholders. If they cannot rival Apple's growth and
profit margins, they won't survive.
''New middle-class jobs will eventually emerge,'' said Lawrence
Katz, a Harvard economist. ''But will someone in his
40s have the skills for them? Or will he be bypassed for a new
graduate and never find his way back into the middle
class?''
The pace of innovation, say executives from a variety of
industries, has been quickened by businessmen like Mr. Jobs.
20. G.M. went as long as half a decade between major automobile
redesigns. Apple, by comparison, has released five
iPhones in four years, doubling the devices' speed and memory
while dropping the price that some consumers pay.
Before Mr. Obama and Mr. Jobs said goodbye, the Apple
executive pulled an iPhone from his pocket to show off a
new application -- a driving game -- with incredibly detailed
graphics. The device reflected the soft glow of the room's
lights. The other executives, whose combined worth exceeded
$69 billion, jostled for position to glance over his
shoulder. The game, everyone agreed, was wonderful.
There wasn't even a tiny scratch on the screen.
The iEconomy: Articles in this series are examining challenges
posed by increasingly globalized high-tech industries.
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
CORRECTION-DATE: January 24, 2012
CORRECTION: This article has been revised to reflect the
following correction: An article on Sunday about the
reasons iPhones are largely produced overseas omitted a
passage immediately after the second continuation, from Page
21. A22 to Page A23, in one edition. The full passage should have
read: ''Another critical advantage for Apple was that
China provided engineers at a scale the United States could not
match. Apple's executives had estimated that about
8,700 industrial engineers were needed to oversee and guide the
200,000 assembly-line workers eventually involved in
manufacturing iPhones. The company's analysts had forecast it
would take as long as nine months to find that many
qualified engineers in the United States.''
GRAPHIC: PHOTOS: People flooded Foxconn Technology with
resumes at a 2010 job fair in Henan Province, China.
(PHOTOGRAPH BY DONALD CHAN/REUTERS) (A1)
A production line in Foxconn City in Shenzhen, China. The
iPhone is assembled in this vast facility, which has 230,000
employees, many at the plant up to 12 hours a day, six days a
week. (PHOTOGRAPH BY THOMAS
LEE/BLOOMBERG NEWS) (A20)
In China, Lina Lin is a project manager at PCH International,
which contracts with Apple. ''There are lots of jobs,'' she
said. ''Especially in Shenzhen.'' In California, Eric Saragoza
joined Apple as an engineer in 1995, but as more work
occurred overseas, he was laid off. (PHOTOGRAPHS BY
THOMAS LEE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
JIM WILSON/THE NEW YORK TIMES) (A21) GRAPHICS: A
Shift From Manufacturing: A look at the largest
employers shows how America's economy has changed. Over
the last 50 years, the country has shifted from creating
goods to providing services. Today, about a tenth of Americans
work in manufacturing, while service providers and
retailers like Walmart and temp firms like Kelly Services
employ about six in seven of the nation's workers.
PERCENTAGE OF WORKERS IN EACH SECTOR
THE LARGEST EMPLOYERS
FOR EVERY 1,000 JOBS CREATED IN
CHANGE IN JOBS, 2000-10 (Sources: S&P Capital IQ (list of
22. largest employers)
Bureau of Labor Statistics) (A20)
The iPhone: Designed in the U.S. Made Overseas Assembled in
China (Sources: Paul Semenza, senior vice president,
Analyst Services, DisplaySearch, an NPD Group Company
Linley Gwennap, founder and principal analyst, the Linley
Group
Ron Turi, owner, Element 3 Battery Venture
Wayne Lam, IHS iSuppli) (A21)
DOCUMENT-TYPE: News; Series
PUBLICATION-TYPE: Newspaper
Copyright 2012 The New York Times Company
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