Dude, AAPL bought me a house. SRSLY.

"who out there is still holding a boatload of Apple stock from 2004? And can we borrow 5 bucks for lunch?"

I am.

and, no.

@cidion: Can we borrow 4 bucks then?

You mean to tell me that Gizmodo, the biggest Apple fanboys out there doesn't even hold any stock? Man, why are you guys promoting the hell out of it? Duh? At least get something out of it folks!

Poor Dell.

Didn't they have an MP3 player, too? What ever happened with that?

Poor, poor Dell.

My boss who bought a house on a mountain with his Yahoo stock is kicking himself right now because he didn't take my advice in 1996 to buy Apple stock at $13 (before the last split).

for my 21st B-day I received some apple stock. That was early 2001, I figure when I get married I might need money. First I gotta find a girl.

Shoot I bought late and I've still made a good 31% on my investment so far. Not the 600% you old fogies have, but not bad still.

Those of you who still want to get on the Apple train should. It's expensive as hell but it should keep beating numbers for quite a few more quarters with increases in desktop/laptop marketshare, the refresh of the ipod/iphone line and december sales.

Long story short, they still have quite a bit of momentum in them, even with all the bricks out there.

a handful of execs hired last year have buttloads of stock from 2004.

My favorite part of all this is Michael Dell saying "Apple should close shop and give the money back to their shareholders" back in 97.

How's that quote working out for you now, Michael? Dell is nothing more than a glorified supply chain exercise - and a nice one at that - but when you don't innovate / design you see what happens. Stagnation.

That chart isn't market cap, it's percentage price appreciation in the stock (which is generally correlated, but share buybacks and dividends, among other things, can affect them differently.) The referencing article points out Dell's and Apple's market caps, $62 and $143 billion, respectively, a factor of about 2.5x, not the 10x differential shown in the graph.

The thing about Apple is it has such a small (but Fan boy loyal) market share of home pc that microsoft could lose 5% to 10% to apple and it would do some damage to Microsoft but it's huge increase to apple.

The competition is the open system OS.

Funny thing about stock is you can see a different picture based on the time slice you look at. I wish I had sold the Dell stock I bought in the early 90's in 2000 and picked up Apple. Then I'd REALLY be rolling in the dough. And no I still wouldn't loan you $5.

HA! Screw them both, I have 10K shares of GOOG IPO just waiting for me to graduate from grad school!

Screw everyone, I have a bucket of piss that smells just RANK! I should get rid of that.

How about some Apple stock from 1999-2000? 14.40-ish/share.

Not a boatload, but I got my shares back in 1999 at $13.

Not enough to buy a house, but I break off a piece now and again and get me a new Mac.

After accounting for splits, I bought at 8.

Cheers.

My parents invested $2000 for me in Apple stock in 1998. I still hold that stock but I don't even check it that often. I just know its worth a lot.

Conidering what apple was worth in 98 at a $2000 investment, after taxes, your "worth a lot" would probably net you a fully loaded Mustang today... Cheers!

This chart is misleading

The fact is that AAPL shares have outperformed EVERYTHING by leaps and bounds. I am sending Giz a chart of APPL vs DELL, MSFT and the S&P500 index - hopefully they will post it. If not, you can find it at:

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i hold some from last year at $55 low point and now i have a nice 200% gain.

i wish i bought it in when i started seeing everyone with an ipod :(

@diablofreak: That is a telltale sign to jump on a hot stock....

Apple stock. Don't get me started. I bought it when it was taking a dive and then had to sell at a loss because my car died and I needed another one.

It still hurts.

Apple is a bigger company than Dell.

Show that chart with Microsoft instead of Dell.

@aaj111: Check out the link from my earlier post

@aaj111:

Yep - but MS don't actually make computers, and Dell do!

10 years... is around the time Jobs started. Perhaps ask who's holding onto stick from the early 90's, when Apple really hit rock bottom (I think it was around $8 or less).

I really need to start investing in stocks....good stocks though, like google or apple from 10 years ago so I can be a freaking millionaire now.

Yep, I'm one of the loon...I mean, lucky few who bought Apple stock in '04.

Of course, as a graphics guy I knew that I'd be screwed anyway if Apple went under, so I figured it was a damned-if-I-do/damned-if-I-don't decision.

I'm a bit confused..

"According to stock values", the iPod came out in 2005, but didn't the 1st gen iPod come out in 2001? Maybe it was 2005's introduction of the shuffle, nano, and video iPod that did it.

i told my parents in 2003 to buy apple stock, given i was 11 at the time, they probably should have been right for listening to me... I hate being right

@Havok154: Yeah, those "good stocks" and duds are only apparent in hindsight. I sold Sun, convinced they would be crushed by networked Windows PCs, and Java and the dot-com boom happened. I was sure Lotus Notes was game-changing software, but Lotus/IBM didn't fully capitalize on it. I almost joined a company with a brand-new awesome algorithmic approach to search that was way ahead of its competitors... Inktomi!

Pretend you have $1000 in stocks you like (there are online portfolio trackers and stock market games) and see how poorly you do, not just in when to buy but also when to sell.

Index funds and value investing for the (boring slightly-ahead-of-inflation) win.