AAPL chosen for the Bar Mitzvah portfolio

COMMON SENSE tells me Steve Jobs has an unrevealed trick up his sleeves that won't be revealed until the the WDC. The accelerometer technology used in the iphone I believe has a dual purpose. My guess is that if I can think of this, then all those brains at Apple should have figured this out during development.....Long time ago.... If you think about how the Wii operates you will figure it out. If you were using the browser on the iphone reading a news article fo example, like most PDA's the screen is so small you constantly have to move left or right to read. Good thing about the iphone you can use your fingers on the touch screen to slide left or right. This is already a leap up above PDA's. But I believe there is more... the iphone will give you an option to use the accelerometer technology for this. Imagine while sitting on a chair you are holding the iphone about 12 inches from your eyes in front of you. Now if you decide you'd like to move the screen towards the right, your hand would hint to the right and the rest of the news article would appear instantly. Up, down, left , right. Even easier than two sliding fingers. And last thing is... why just use this great technology for simply knowing if the screen should be up right or in widescreen???? I'm guessing the Apple minds are creative enough to exploit the "accelerometer". DON'T YOU? Full disclosure: yes I do own Apple shares and options.

Errr... why is this news?

I started my portfolio with my Bar Mitzvah money, and have added bits and pieces over the years. I now have more than enough deposit for a house.

Whilst I didn't really like it at the time - mainly because I wanted to spend the money on toys and such - it is a really good way to directly impact your children's financial future. Make sure you pick safe stocks, and everything will be good.

#4, yes, you're correct, but I went with the conventional English usage rather than the awkward "becomes Bar Mitzvah."

FYI... A kid doesn't **have** a Bar Mitzva he **IS** a Bar Mitzva.

If you're Gene Munster and you have a 52-wk price target of $145... you are buying low.

Talk about a bad investor. Buy low, not high!

I can't say that I have better recommendations right now, but I can't say that I expect McDonald's or Google will have that much growth in their pricing. McDonald's is just being squeezed in their market, just holding onto their share is a trick in itself with more chains expanding, a lot of it is at the expense of McD's market.

Expectations on Google seem to be too high and despite offering so many services, they only seem to have one good revenue source, and that's the ads. I don't even think the commercial version of Google Docs is a credible contender yet for anything other than having more interactive collaboration.