So it's 2006 (Happy New Year, by the way!), and if you're interested in some stock picks I suggest you buy Apple Computer now. This pick is roughly as credible as one that might show up in your email, so I make no guarantees. Here's my reasoning, though:
I've never owned a Mac, but in the winter of 2002 I reeeeaally wanted one of those sweet new iPods. So I bought charged a 10 gig model and I'm still using it today. Meanwhile, the iPod has single handedly catapulted Apple back to relevance. And if you bought some shares back then, you'd have a tidy 200% profit today.
And I still don't have a Mac.
But I will soon. Before the end of this month, I'll have a newly released (hopefully) Mac Mini. So if you believe, as I do, that your good friend Bil is a bellweather of Apple hits, you'll snap up some of those $75 shares, sure to be worth $225 by X-mas 2008. Too bad I can't figure out how to buy stock...
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I got an iPod for my birthday last year. And a year and a half later it died. Dead. Gone. No workie. Hard drive failure. And I didn’t drop in the toilet or nothing. I cried a little when Apple told me they would do NOTHING for me. Have to buy a brand new one for another $300. So, my advice you you, my friends, get the extended warranty.
Bitter.
Cris, what did you do with the sad iPod? Do you still have it?
My 2nd generation iPod was from the infamous 12 month warranty/13 month battery life batch, so I feel your pain. Of course, I have no qualms about popping them open and doing surgery, so it wasn’t that bad, and I still use mine every day.
Also, just wanted to point out that as of 4:00 today, you’d be up $6 or $6 a share if you bought Apple when I posted this…