A Cry for Stock Tips
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…
January 10th, 2006 at 5:03 pm
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.
January 10th, 2006 at 5:19 pm
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…