Oh I tripled my money there chief. Bought at $1.50 and sold at $5.00 or so. Got tired of waiting 17 years for the stock to improve. Got tired of waiting for a decent product. Jobs couldn’t get it done. And neither could the board. Fortunately for me I bought 50000 shares of Intel at $.08 and cashed out at $36 a share. That made up for the cruddy performance by Apple.
There’s a big difference between supporting faggotry behind closed doors and ramming it down consumers’ throats. That being said if I don’t hear about it or don’t see it in ads or on the news as a political circus, so be it.
I love it when liars make it ridiculously simple to hoist them on their own lying petards so easily. Up Yours Marxists' tale of Apple stock woe just doesn't hold its own water and leaks like a rusty sieve when you look at the facts, IncPen.
UYM states he bought into Apple for $1.50, held his position for 17 years, then "tripled his investment" when he dumped his Apple stock "for $5 or so" because it hadn't moved. . . with the implication that during this period Sreve Jobs and the board failed to make it move.
Raw meat for an Economist with a minor in Finance like me. . . I'm going to eat UYM's lunch, IncPen!
Apple's 1980 initial public offering was at $22 a share. At no time after the IPO, was Apple stock ever sold for $1.50 or $5.00 or so. By 1987, Steve Jobs was gone from Apple. Even during the financial crunch in 1996-1997, Apple stock was selling for around the $16 to $30 range, certainly nowhere near $5! In August 1997, Steve Jobs is brought back and starts cutting product lines and streamlining Apple. The iMac is brought out in 1998, and the stock begins a steady and soon spectacular rise for the next ten years. . . A 2000% increase to 2009, unseen before in US stock history. By 2010, multiple new products had been rolled out. . . And by 2012, Apple became the largest company on Earth by market cap. Still no $1.50 or $5.00 stock prices to be found. . . and no 17 year period of "no Steve Jobs" successful products that fits the UYM narrative as stated.
The implicication that Up Yours Marxists wants us to believe is that he bought the Apple stock when he bought all those Apple devices. . . but since the stock story doesn't fit ANY FACTUAL HISTORY, then I don't think his "I bought all these Apple devices" story does either. It was tossed out there to make you think he's just an old time Apple guy who's been burned by Apple misdeeds. It's an a tried and true anti-Apple troll tactic that is hoary with age.