Final Blog

“Are Customers who Purchase iPhones Getting their Money's Worth or is it Overpriced?”

My argument is that the iPhone is overpriced and consumers are overpaying when they purchase it.

                

New Platforms

First off, I have used Prezi before. My Early Childhood teacher from my senior year praised this presentation tool. She wouldn't even allow other platforms. I never cared for it; it seem too confusing. The paths and journey was a little too much. Even more, with me being a slight perfectionist, I always find myself tweaking it too much or trying to perfect it. I have used Wix in the far past. It was very easy and didnt take much to figure out how to use. I actually had to use this in a class over the course of a semester. If I had a second choice of platform, I would choose this one. My ideal presentation tool and the one I will be using is Microsoft PowerPoint. I'm very experienced with it which means it's easy to use. I think it's best for me to stick with this tool because Im most comfortable with it.

Plagiarism

The Web and the Internet is not only hurting students by offering an easy access of information, but it also provides easy ways for students to plagiarize. For example, students may not know much about what they're writing on, so they may choose just to copy and paste information and use it as if it were theirs. On the other hand, they may try to play it smart and switch around words or use synonyms to not be tracked. Many students are not aware of this, but this is also a type of plagiarism. In addition to this, students use the famous online encyclopedia, Wikipedia. Most are not aware that this site is a compilation of information from other sources that Wikipedia cites at the bottom of every information page. Other students get confused when they want to use a source but there is no author specified. They use the information without citing anyone, which results in plagiarism. Both MLA and APA formats offer ways to cite sources with unknown authors.

Two Key Sources

"Are Customers who Purchase iPhones Getting their Money's Worth or is it Overpriced?"

Online Newspaper Article:

Greene, Jay. “Riots, Suicides, and Other Issues in Foxconn's iPhone Factories.” Cnet.  

          25 Sept. 2012. Web. 27 Feb. 2013.

Book:

Lashinsky, Adam. "Inside Apple: How America's Most Admired- and Secretive-  

                Company Really Works." New York: Business Plus, 2012. Print.

New Database

So far in my research process, I have already used the databases: Consumer Information (Business and Economics), Company Information (Company and Industry Information) and Psychology (Social Sciences.) For this assignment, I chose a new subject database, Computer Science (Science and Technology.) Under this subject, I found many helpful sources such as academic journals and reports. One source described the amount of iPhone sales in the U.S. This will definitely aid me in my research paper because my topic concerns the reasons why people buy iPhones, even more, over other smartphones. My topic also covers why iPhones are so expensive over other competing smartphones. With this notion, I would need to discover what materials make up the iPhone itself. Luckily, using this database, I was able to find an article that is closely related to this idea. Another useful article I found was about the iPhone components. The text described and closely examined the manufacturing and materials used to make iPhones.

Social Research

With already being a user, I decided to use Twitter and Facebook. I like these two sites because they allow me to interact socially with people all the time. This can be from family, friends to old classmates. Although these are social networks, people also use them as a marketing tool. While conducting research for my topic, I was able to find both informative and opinionated information. There were several articles that were based on iPhone production, the Apple company and the marketing and management of the company. It's Twitter so it mostly contains opinionated and personal thoughts. With that being said, most information was about the craze and the frenzy about new iPhone releases and upgrades. People "tweeted" about their personal purchases, the features and their excitement about being new iPhone customers. This is all pertaining to marketing. Similar to Twitter, I found almost the exact kind of articles and posts on Facebook. I wanted to experiment on all of the other provided tools instead of just focusing on one. StumbleUpon and Delicious gave me a hard time as they left me asking "what the heck is this?" However, Reddit was the best. It allowed me to break down iPhone into categories that will best fit my research project. Tech news to programming were all available using this site. Newsvine was also helpful because it let me browse articles on just about anything related to an iPhone.

Article

"February is American Heart Month" -
https://twitter.com/search?q=heart%20disease%20month&src=typd
http://www.cdc.gov/Features/HeartMonth/index.html?s_cid=tw_cdc2106

This article by the CDC is bringing awareness to Heart Disease Month which is this month. The article also includes weekly tips, which include a plan for prevention and the symptoms of a heart attack,  that can help prevent heart disease. It then reads the bold-print fact, "Heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women, but heart disease is preventable and controllable." About 715,000 Americans have a heart attack every year. In the United States alone, about 600,000 people die from heart disease every year, which is one out of every four deaths. Even more, heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women. 

The author of this article is using facts based on statistics. However, whomever wrote this article is stressing a better lifestyle by encouraging us to exercise more and eat more healthier. Other strategies are included in the "plan for prevention" section.