How Dell and Apple Approach Marketing of Their Products
Marketing 505
Introduction
While Apple has been widely acknowledged as the leader in computer design and innovation, others, such as Dell, have been seen as having the marketing know-how. Dell sells easily 10x the volume Apple does, thus making hardware a commodity, Apple's contrary view of marketing may, indeed, be the wave of the future, even as it looks to the past, where the value is placed on the hardware. Apple is, after all, a hardware company, and much of the software Apple creates enhances the appeal of the hardware it creates, which is why you'll likely never see Apple market OS X to PC users.
Marketing Environment
Dell's strategy is global. It realizes that being closer to the customers is essential in carrying out its marketing strategies as well as in enabling it to build customer base. First by establishing the Internet infrastructure for booking/orders related activities it has been able to......
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