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Originally posted by Gustofer:
I would retire today...had I put it into Apple.
That was a shit-ton of money for me back then, so it wouldn't have happened. But, thinking ahead, and back, if a guy had the money today, where would you put it for your grandkids to reap the benefits 30+ years from now?
What is new and upcoming like personal computers were back then? Where do we think technology will go?
Of course, nobody can predict the future, but what is your best guess?
Without knowing what you were going to talk aboutm when I saw the title of your post, I keep thinking back to the one I missed but my time was between 1995 and 2000, I forget which date but I remember the events exactly - and it was about Apple.
Intel was being investigated for monopolizing the market as something happened to AMD. Apple was on the brink of bankruptcy. The news was Microsoft made a recent investment in Apple. My read on that was to keep Apple afloat so that Microsoft could avoid a similar investigation as being a monopoly. Stock price of Apple then was a little above $3.00.
I considered buying Apple stock then for several days. I figured if Microsoft wasn't going to let Apple fall, that's a good safety net. After three days, the stock went up to $6.00 and I thought I missed my chance.
That memory continues to haunt me to this day.
"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946.
