Buying Apple stock instead of products

katykelley:

In 2001, a PowerBook G4 would have set you back $3500. Suppose instead that you had purchased $3500 in Apple stock instead of the computer…that stock would now be worth about $110,000. Even an original iPod’s worth in AAPL ($399) would be worth almost $12,000 today.

Yeah, this type of thinking kills me.  I actually had about $50,000 lying around when Google went public (from sale of my first condo).  I thought about investing in Google.  Hard.  Decided that there was no way to create lock-in for search users on the web.  Boy, was I wrong about that!

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   Yeah, this type of thinking kills me. I actually...about $50,000 lying around when Google...

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   This is just depressing. I bought...2000. Guess where it is today? Probably a...

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   saying before…thanks Josh Mohrer.

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   Mohrer, great post.

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    Honestly if only I had enough money to just buy shares back in 01 or even a year ago. Its tripled since last march....

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    Ditto. I bought stock the day the iPhone was announced (Jan ‘07, at around $90) and sold when it hit $180. I’m fine with...

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    a few months later...significant gains....disappointed I...

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    Posts like this have been floating around the blogosphere over the past week as they’ve reached new highs. But the “I’d...

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    wow something to think about

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    I remember when I got my first nifty little...ticker widget on

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