Think different !!

Attached below a screen-shot from Reuters website with stock price changes (as %) in last 5 years, of 6 marquee companies (RIM, NOKIA,HP,DELL,SONY,KODAK).

Note

• These companies together were representing 3 important industries
  • Mobiles,
  • Computers
  • and cameras
• 5 years back they were leaders in their category.
• The stock price of each one of them has dropped steeply for most of them in last 5 years..

Some would think that this means that these key industries had some sort of a crisis lately

Now the same screenshot with one additional company.

APPLE.


Notice the change in scale of the chart. These companies got APPLED !!! in 5 years Apple changed these industries.

We know the story of Steve Jobs, he was cofounder of Apple way back in 1976 and later in 1985 he lost major stack in Apple and quit the same company which he created so passionately. After quitting he founded NeXT and Pixer. Later Pixer was sold to Disney and Apple acquired NeXT in 1996 and as part of the same deal Steve joined back Apple. In 1997 he was appointed interim CEO of the company and in the same year Apple launched "Think Different" advertisement slogan.

Following is the rare video where he had launched "Think Different" commercial:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCz_SiPD_X0     

Now after seeing this video you can correlate what kind of passionate person he was, who was focused for his fundamental and core and never given up that attitude and slowly and steadily he has changed the way computing is done in this world.

In an interview reported ask Steve Jobs, is there goal to overtake PC market share?

On that he responded; "Our goal is to create Best personal computers in the world and the products which we are Proud to sell and would recommend to our family and friends"

Following are the few more details to show the progress of apple so far

• Apple is the 3rd largest mobile manufacturer in world.... not smart phones alone , any mobile !!, see the Dark Blue line.

        *each dot represent one quarter.

• Apple stock is trading, as on today, at 617$, which is higher compare at any market standard.
• Apple market value is over 500 Billion Dollar only few company in world has achieved this so far like GE, Microsoft, Cisco, Intel.
• Apple cash reserve is ~100 b$, higher then GDP of few country of in the world namely Iraq, Cuba, Angola, Libya Sudan, Syria, Ecuador etc.
• Apple iTunes store remade the way music business in digital era

Now Fortune Magazine named Steve Paul Job as the greatest entrepreneur of our time.
http://www.cultofmac.com/156091/steve-jobs-declared-the-greatest-entrepreneur-of-our-time/

So where do you want to be 5 years from now ?? 

Just "Think Differently"

-P