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- haentz, on 11/01/2007, -8/+349Yeah, and if everyone would have bought Apple stocks and not iPods in 2007, it would have never reached the current value...
- Livewired, on 11/01/2007, -5/+230I hate reading things like this. "If you had done X, Y many years ago, you would have Z dollars." It's depressing.
- vofuse, on 10/28/2007, -7/+157If you bought Windows XP in 2001, you'd still have Microsoft's most efficient operating system to date.
- nexah3, on 11/14/2007, -2/+147If you would have given me $500, 3 years ago, I would have spent it.
- wonderchemist, on 11/01/2007, -13/+148Man! I didn't even know the U.S. Dollar had fallen that much.
- inactive, on 11/14/2007, -6/+124if you had made facebook or myspace, youd be rich right now. if you had played last week's lottery winning numbers, you would be a winner right now.
- Elranzer, on 11/01/2007, -4/+90Before 2001, the only Apple item $399 could buy was their stock.
- theinept, on 10/31/2007, -1/+52If you had done the same as Bill and Carol Angle in 1957 and invested $30K with Warren Buffett... Oh wait, this is not a Motley Fool ad!
- gthyb, on 11/14/2007, -3/+50I remember buying at 14 and selling at 22. I thought I was hot *****.
- mypreciousss, on 10/28/2007, -6/+47Wait... you do mean 2001, right?
- Bishop256, on 10/25/2007, -2/+31sweet! i love stories about how much money i could have and how my decisions were stupid!
- Brian48216, on 10/25/2007, -4/+32actually, considering the volume of iPods sold, if all those people bought apple stock instead, it may very well be at it's current value anyway...
- quickjack, on 10/25/2007, -4/+31If you spent $399 on Nutrisystem, your would be up nearly twice as much. Damn you hindsight.
http://finance.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&c ... - CraigJ, on 10/25/2007, -4/+28If you has invested $1000 in Microsoft the week they went public and sold in 2000, you'd have had $550,000. If you held and sold today you'd have $220,000. Sigh. The sad thing is, I actually considered it at the time, but being only 19, I bought beer and dope instead. Oh well...
- manitoba98xp, on 11/14/2007, -2/+25New in Leopard. (just kidding...)
- cyberpunk, on 10/25/2007, -5/+28in related news, if you bought $399 of HP stock in march of 2000 it would now be worth $296...
- Elranzer, on 10/25/2007, -4/+25If Apple had offered iPod-for-Windows back in 2001, their stock and userbase would be even higher. No doubt they didn't reach the iPod icon status and profits on the Mac userbase alone.
- Hindu_Wardrobe, on 11/14/2007, -1/+18This reminds me of my great-grandma. She was given Coca-Cola stock waaaay back in the day.
"Nobody will drink this *****," she said as she threw the stocks away.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. - phlll, on 10/25/2007, -2/+18I keep saying the same thing about Google.
- scott715, on 10/28/2007, -0/+16I DID spend about $4500 on AAPL in 2001, but I sold it when it was worth around $22K in 2005. Today it would be like 80K. That's life!
- theprez, on 10/25/2007, -1/+15If you would have made a social news website and called it digg you would be worth $60 million!
- Typhoon2009, on 10/25/2007, -3/+16Guess this just teaches you to take risks and invest.
- BossKey, on 10/25/2007, -1/+14not really, because the reason any stock goes up is because everybody wants to buy it. If everybody wanted to buy Apple stock, it naturally would go up.
- trollick, on 10/25/2007, -1/+13Or you could have just spent $1 and bought a lottery ticket with winning numbers.
- dyreschlock, on 10/26/2007, -6/+18I need a delorian.
- robogobo, on 10/25/2007, -1/+12Nope, AAPL split in 2005, so it would actually be worth over $11k. Your math isn't wrong, just your info.
- inactive, on 10/25/2007, -6/+16If you spent $399 on apples in 2001, it'd be a heaping pile of dirt today.
- Shiner6, on 11/14/2007, -1/+10You could put hundreds of things for X and Y and have the same result... WEALTH. That's why the invention of a time machine will be great.
- johnny222, on 10/25/2007, -1/+10Actually, it makes perfect sense. AAPL is Apple's stock symbol.
- gak001, on 10/26/2007, -4/+13... or grammar for that matter.
- agjimenez, on 10/25/2007, -0/+9It's too bad we can't base all OS reliability on just your experience alone. Each user's mileage will vary. Some users will have a better experience with Vista, others with OS X. You would think this would be obvious to everyone.
- blipsman, on 10/25/2007, -6/+15I did! Actually about 3 iPods worth... some in 2000 when the iPod was unveiled and some more in 2001 when the iPod for PC was released. My Apple stock is now worth about 10 MacPros (I sold some when it climb all the way to $45 a couple of years ago).
- jennamalia, on 10/25/2007, -0/+9It may be worth that much on paper, but it's not actually worth anything (except emotional value) until you sell it.
Past performance is no guarantee of future returns. - gwinerreniwg, on 10/25/2007, -0/+9True, if I had bought stocks instead of an iPod I'd be wealthier...but those stocks sound like CRAP on my speakers.
- hinkleti, on 10/25/2007, -1/+10I said the same thing about Apple - "It's overvalued, I'll wait for it to drop" - in 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006. Finally in Spring 2007 I caved and bought in at $83. It's more than doubled since then, but boy do I wish I would have bought in '03 or '04 before the 2:1 split.
- Shiner6, on 10/25/2007, -4/+12Yes that's exactly what it teaches you. A few years ago people with Enron stock were saying that same thing... look at them now.
- Firehed, on 10/25/2007, -2/+10Let me give you something a bit more forward-thinking, then - a bit of advice I learned at the company's 401k meeting today.
If you can get $80k put in a 401k by age 35, and never touch it again, you'll have about $1m if you have a portfolio with 8% growth by age 67. $1.8m at 10%, $3m if you can get 12%. Start now. - grumpyrain, on 10/28/2007, -0/+8It could be worse:
How to halve the value of your currency every 10 minutes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbabwe - inactive, on 10/25/2007, -0/+8Man I wish someone had given me $100 Billion in 2001, I'd still have several dozens of dollars left.
- inactive, on 10/25/2007, -3/+10Someone already said that...
- CraigJ, on 10/25/2007, -2/+9you are a ***** idiot.
- Loyaleagle, on 10/25/2007, -2/+8bought it at 60 actually....yesterday i hit the 200% mark...
why spend all this time looking at tech news if you're not gonna use that intelligence ;) - LawJik, on 10/25/2007, -0/+6Can we make an Investments section in digg....
The newest function of Web 2.0, affect the global market... - amneosis, on 10/25/2007, -1/+7I bought March 08 AAPL Futures last week, thinking i'd hold on but damn, $12 in one week i caved in and sold.
- ThinkBox, on 10/27/2007, -1/+6Time Machines would destroy all concepts of economics if they were publicly available.
- keeron, on 10/28/2007, -3/+82001 2001 2001 2001 2001 2001 2001 2001 2001 2001 2001 2001 2001 2001 2001 2001 2001 2001 2001 2001 2001 2001 2001 2001 2001 2001 2001 2001 2001 2001
(i.e. read the article again) - tjubb, on 10/25/2007, -2/+7I'm one of the lucky ones then. I bought 54 shares back when it was around $15 per. That's a 1100% increase! Just wish I could have bought more. My other stocks are in the crapper though. I think they may split the stocks soon.
- GuyHersh, on 10/25/2007, -0/+5Umm.. I believe there were like 9 splits (2:1 and 3:2) since MS went public. That would put you at 90 million ($1000 of stock at 0.10 a stock) if i did my math correctly. Probably not, but WELL over a million dollars.
- fastfood15, on 10/25/2007, -0/+4My family has put a lot, 20k, into AAPL when it was ~$60 a share. That makes it now worth ~60k. Most of my college savings are in AAPL. O.o
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