Apple Computers
On April 1, 1976, Apple Computer was born. Steven Wozniak, a high school drop-out who worked for Hewlett-
Packard and dabbled in computer-design created what later became the ‘Apple I’ computer. His high school
buddy Steven Jobs, also a high school drop-out, convinced Steven that the two should form a company to
market the new computer, which eventually took off in 1977 with the Apple II.
There are very few companies in world that have an interesting past as Apple Computers. The company at one
point of time in its history, lost majority of its market share and was on the verge of liquidation. However, the
company came back by reinventing itself and the concept of computers. Apple is a company that has invented
many products that have revolutionized the entire computer industry. iPod, iTunes, iPhone, iPad etc are some
classic examples of success of Apple Computers. Under the leadership of Steve Jobs the company was able to
create many Blue Oceans within the IT Industry. [12]
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Amazon.com
Amazon.com, founded by Jeff Bazo in the year 1994, became on of the first e-commerce companies in world
that achieved phenomenal success in market. The concept of Amazon.com was based on the idea of selling
books online. Amazon today is serving around 137 million customers every week. The revenues of the company
are over USD 34 billion currently. [13 and 14]
Google.com
Larry Page and Sergey Brin started Google in the year 1997-98. The company has been able to maintain its
position of being one among the most powerful internet search engines available till date in market. Over the
years, since its inception, Google has been releasing a steady stream of innovative tools and services - some of
them developed in-house, many others bought in from start-ups: Gmail, Google Docs for word processing and
spreadsheets, Picasa for picture editing, Google Earth and Maps for location-based search and display of
information, Blogger, YouTube's video service etc. The list is seemingly endless. Above has ensured that
company that succeeded in creating Blue Ocean has been able to keep it blue for years altogether till now. [15
and 16]
Other global companies which have received success in creating blue Oceans in the known or unknown
market space have been companies like Yahoo, eBay, Facebook, IBM, Samsung etc.