History
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Innovation
100

At what event did Apple launch the Macintosh with a TV commercial?

1984 Super Bowl

100

What product has been responsible for most of Apple’s revenues?

iPhone

100

Who is the current CEO of Apple?

Tim Cook

100

How did Apple and iTunes save the music industry during the age of rampant piracy?

Unbundling albums and offering legal downloads for 99 cents per song

200

When Steve Jobs was forced out of Apple, what company did he buy for $5mil and then later sold for $7.4 billion?

Pixar

200

_______ are more profitable than consumer electronics.

Services

200

What smartphone poses the biggest competitive threat to Apple?

Samsung Galaxy

200

A _______ ________ is a network of different products and services that interact with each other to create and exchange value.

Business ecosystem

300

When the Mac entered the market, what product was its biggest competitor?

BigBlue (IBM)

300

What three geographical regions account for a majority of Apple’s sales?

US, Europe, and China

300

How much (%) has Apple’s shares appreciated since 2011 when they gained a new CEO?

More than 900%

300

How was Apple able to extend each product category (ex. iPhone) and continue to do it today, 2 decades later?

Incremental product innovations