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I would like to make these purchases:
$SPOT (+1,12 %) , $META (-7,03 %) , $GOOGL (-3,55 %) ,$APH (-9,28 %) ,$CSPX (-4,45 %) , $MC (-4,43 %)
$MELI (-1,08 %) but I would still wait for the US. Stock market or wait for the reaction of other countries
What do you want to get in any case?
Portfolio review March 2025 - Trump crashes Wall Street and my portfolio (-€30,000 📉)
2025 - A year to forget if you look at the first quarter. While things were still looking positive until around mid-February, things have been going steadily downhill since the middle or end of February.
March 2025 was the worst single month in my portfolio since 2013, with price losses of almost 10%. The negative market trend in the US and a weak US dollar naturally hurt my portfolio particularly badly.
Monthly view:
In total, March was -9,9%. This corresponds to price losses of almost 30.000€.
The MSCI World (benchmark) was -7.9% and the S&P500 -5.8% (in dollars, for euro investors it was also more like -10%).
Winners & losers:
A look at the winners and losers shows a clear picture in March:
Winners? You will look for them almost in vain this month.
In 1st and 2nd place are Deutsche Bank
$DBK (-6,39 %) and Allianz $ALV (-0,37 %) two German financial stocks with gains of around € +180 each. Northrop Grumman $NOC (-1,11 %) at +120€ is only one of 2 American stocks with a positive price performance in March.
A completely different picture on the losers' side:
1st place goes to NVIDIA $NVDA (-6,05 %) with price losses of over €4,200. It is followed by Meta $META (-7,03 %) and Palo Alto Networks
$PANW (-2,8 %) with price losses of ~€2,000 each. 4th place goes to Alphabet
$GOOG (-3,48 %) with €1,600 in share price losses. The flop 5 is then completed by a non-tech stock, namely Starbucks
$SBUX (-10,63 %) with losses of ~€1,400.
The performance-neutral movements were €500 in March - these are still lower at the moment due to the house construction issue.
current year:
In the YTD my portfolio is now also clearly in the red with -8,4%. The MSCI World is still doing better at -5.4%.
In total, my portfolio currently stands at ~260.000€. This corresponds to an absolute decline of ~€25,000 in the current year 2025. -28.000€ of this comes from exchange rate losses, slightly offset by ~900€ from dividends / interest and ~2.000€ from additional investments.
Dividend:
- Dividends in March were +8% above the previous year at ~390€
- At the top of the list Amgen
$AMGN (-0,11 %) with meanwhile over 55€ (gross) dividend every 3 months - In the current year, the dividends after 3 months are +15% over the first 3 months of 2025 at ~730€
- The US dollar will also have an impact on dividends this year. Example: 2,500$ at an exchange rate of 1:1 equals 2,500€. At an exchange rate of 1.08$, these 2,500$ would only be worth 2,315€, a decrease of ~185€
Buying & selling:
- I bought in March for 750€
- 460€ shares
- 190€ ETFs
- 100€ crypto
- Sales Was there no
Change of strategy?
At the moment, Donald Trump and his policies are causing a lot of scrutiny, especially with regard to the (high) US share in the portfolio.
I can understand these thoughts very well. However, I have decided not to change my strategy and to maintain my high US & tech allocation in my portfolio.
There are certainly better short-term investment opportunities (European defense stocks as an example). Through my savings plans, however, I have deliberately opted for a long-term buying strategy that I will not throw overboard every few months. In the long term, for example, 2022 was an extremely good year to buy tech stocks.
As I don't have a portfolio target for this year anyway, I'm happy to go even lower - hopefully I'll be happy about the entry prices in 2-3 years' time.
YouTube:
Unfortunately, I only uploaded 2 videos to YouTube in March. Unfortunately, work in March was extremely stressful and time-consuming, so there was little time left for this.
I have also uploaded my March portfolio update as a video there if anyone would like to see some more information on the portfolio performance: https://youtu.be/fxbvatj6uvM?si=xP_gvoEmtuqSsfz8
I'm particularly happy to receive criticism or feedback here! 😊
Goal 2025
As already mentioned in the January & February review, a fixed deposit target for this year makes little sense due to the house construction. A fixed savings rate is also difficult to implement due to the issue (unforeseen costs and the like).
A dividend target is also very difficult due to the high volatility of the US dollar.
That's why I'm focusing on other topics this year, especially building a house and possibly one or two YouTube successes.
How are things looking for you? Are you sticking to your portfolio target for 2025 or do you also see difficulties in achieving it after the first quarter?




𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗽 - Who is winning?
March has been an exceptionally challenging month for the markets, influenced by ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza and the new trade tariffs imposed by the Trump administration.
Despite these adversities, my portfolio outperformed both the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq.
Year-to-date, my portfolio remains in positive territory with a gain of 5.23%, significantly outperforming the S&P 500, down 4.37%, and the Nasdaq, which has declined by 8%.
These results underscore the effectiveness of my investment strategy in navigating turbulent market conditions. I remain committed to adapting to the evolving economic landscape to sustain and build upon this performance.
In times like these, we must stay focused, let volatility play in our favor, and trust the process.
𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗽𝘆 𝗺𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗲𝗧𝗼𝗿𝗼—𝗱𝗼𝗻’𝘁 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘄 𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗺𝘆 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝘆.
😎 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗿: This is my personal opinion and is for informational purposes only. You should not interpret this information as financial or investment advice. $TSLA (-3,59 %)
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Q1 PORTFOLIO UPDATE
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The Magnificent 7 in the ranking
Inspired by @MozartTrading you can now read my assessment of the 7 most important stocks in the US economy.
Let's start with what is probably the most boring of the 7 stocks. Apple hasn't done much wrong for years, but it hasn't done much right either. Overall, the operating business is moving sideways and the valuation is not cheap. Overall, however, you don't get a quality company too cheap here. There are certainly worse stocks, but there are also plenty of better ones.
HOLD.
META is also relatively boring, but at least significantly cheaper. Overall, I see more sense in buying here, but META is also relatively lacking in innovation and not very well diversified. META still refuses to break down how much revenue is made with which app, but as I see it, they probably make the absolute majority of their total revenue through Instagram and advertising. META has certainly been trying to broaden its base for decades, but even several years after my last analysis, they have not been really successful. At least they have a good M&A team because they have had more success on average with the companies they have acquired than with those that come entirely from their own company. HOLD
Can actually be summarized in a few words, because this is by far the most volatile share of the big 7. A share that has a lot of potential, if you want to believe the CEO's promises. But only then. Fundamentally, Tesla is not really understandable at all, you either have to have confidence in Elon or leave it alone. HOLD (or SELL)
$GOOGL (-3,55 %) / $GOOG (-3,48 %)
Is probably the slightly more exciting alternative to META, cheaper and simply more broadly positioned. Alphabet also makes a lot of money through advertising, but they also have several other irons in the fire. They have Cloud. They have Android. They have YouTube. They're also trying to do something in the direction of quantum computing and Waymo. Somehow Alphabet is at least involved somewhere in all the important topics. That's pretty good. In comparison, however, it's noticeable that Alphabet has also been responsible for a lot of pipe failures over the last few years. Of course, Alphabet is by far the best value compared to the other stocks. But there is usually a reason why shares are cheap. And again, no one wants to give you Alphabet, but Alphabet also has to fear by far the most pressure from regulatory authorities, even ahead of Apple and Tesla. Overall, however, it has to be said that Alphabet is better diversified than META and cheaper than Apple, which is why this is the first BUY rating.
The shooting star par excellence. Nvidia is strongly positioned in the most important trend of our time and has very high market power due to its unique technology, which the competition is currently unable to keep up with. The only reason for this is that the business model is not particularly well diversified. At the moment, everything depends on the data centers and here I will let you in on an industry secret: they will not continue to grow at 30-40% p.a. forever. However, this knowledge is already reflected in the share price and has already been priced in to some extent. Compared to Alphabet, Nvidia is less diversified, but has fewer regulatory worries and better management. Therefore, there is also a very clear BUY.
Time for the first S-tier company in the mag7. Microsoft actually has the perfect business model and is represented in countless future trends. You have the cloud, you have gaming, you also have something like social media with LinkedIn, you sell your own hardware, you also have a search engine and earn money through advertising, but of course mainly through the subscription model. Microsoft is not the market leader in every area, but it is fundamentally successful in every area. And that's what makes Microsoft so special. There are markets in which Microsoft is absolutely dominant and those in which it is only number #2 or #3 it is at least enough to avoid being completely flattened and having to retreat. For example, they are not the biggest cloud, but at least they are the most profitable. By and large, this is what sets Microsoft apart from Google. Microsoft only really knows the word failure from the times of Steve Ballmer, who maneuvered the company onto very sharp cliffs a few times. The biggest fails in Microsoft's history, such as Windows Mobile, also date back to these times. I would love to try out an MS Surface to see how well Windows performs on mobile devices today, but in the past it was a real disaster.
But before I digress too much, I'll tell you that MSFT is definitely a STRONG BUY from me.
Drum roll here comes my favorite stock. Amazon started as a bookstore, is known to most as an online store but is actually so much more. As if it wasn't impressive enough that Amazon gets so much out of such an unattractive business model as e-commerce, they are also active in many other areas and are amazingly successful overall. When it comes to shopping, they often manage to be one of the cheapest providers and still earn a lot of money. They are also a postal service provider. And an airline. And a streaming service. And not forgetting the world's largest cloud provider. What makes Amazon so special is that they often build up business areas for their own needs and then sell them to other customers at the same time. This horizontal integration and the resulting synergy effects are amazing and offer further compounding potential, especially in the future. Together with Rivian, they build their own vehicles for their own delivery service and are then themselves their biggest customer. I don't think there's even enough space to tell you about all the business areas in which they are now active. For example, they are now also active in the advertising business. Amazon is a company that really excites me because they keep finding niches where the other big tech companies aren't really active and because they consistently push ahead with developing products that not only their customers but also they themselves can use. At the moment, earnings are still a size smaller than Apple, Microsoft and Alphabet, but they still have the potential to make the leap to the very top. Therefore, in addition to MSFT, a STRONG BUY.

My takes on the Mag7
The Magnificent 7 can‘t be said to have had a good run in this first quarter of 2025. On average these seven stellar companies suffered a 15% loss in their share prices YTD. Why? I’ll get into the specifics later, but the bottom line is that for all of them, perhaps with one exception, nothing on the fundamental side has changed, nor on the sentiment side, specific to these companies.
It is a broader sell-off that has been happening all across industries, sparked by DeepSeek, facilitated by tariff threats and exacerbated by uncertainty and disappointing data on the economic state of the USA. So let’s get into the specifics of the seven hyperscalers on this list and find out which are worth buying. A little foreshadowing: Most of them are.
I will go through them in order of their market cap by the close of March 28, 2025, starting with the largest.
Apple ($AAPL (-6,25 %) )
Currently the largest company in the world, measured by market cap, Apple has quite a presence in the global market. It is inherently a hardware company with software integration in a smooth and seamless ecosystem. I mean who doesn’t own an iPhone, or at least one of Apple’s highly innovative products, but they are more than just accessible and comfortable, they are also a status symbol. Maybe not to the extent of a high-end fashion label, but people with Android-powered smartphones face the same question over and over again: Why wouldn’t you buy an iPhone?
And yes, Apple is a great company, a fabulous business, but there is not much innovation coming at the moment. The products are incredible and Apple has a standout position in the electronic devices market, but are you really willing to pay a forward P/E ratio of 30 in return for stagnating growth. I would say you can, Apple is a cash-producing machine, a money-making monster, but it lacks growth prospects at the moment, especially since there is no sign of AI monetization at this point in time, which is why I am not buying it at the current valuation.
Microsoft ($MSFT (-2,62 %) )
Continuing with Microsoft, which is also a cash-producing machine with a free cash flow of $75 billion in 2024. Microsoft is investing massively in AI, most famously in OpenAI and its model ChatGPT, but it is also trying to implement its in-house model Copilot across its Office365 platform. The leadership is scaling up the capital expenditure massively with a reported $80 billion for the year 2025 to solidify Microsoft‘s position in the AI market.
The company‘s biggest strength is in its customer base, almost every single company in the world, has interacted with at least one program in the Office365 suite. It is truly ubiquitous. In school you are introduced to PowerPoint, that from which point onward you then use for every single presentation in your life. Texts are always written in Word, as I am doing this one now.
Excel is used for everything that has to do with numbers from managing your own finances to calculating the financing of your real estate holding to creating the most advanced financial models. Microsoft has a massive moat and its customers are just waiting for the full implementation of AI into these platforms, which is already taking place to some extent.
Another aspect of Microsoft can also not be forgotten and that is its cloud business Azure. It currently occupies the second spot in the three-way race, led by AWS, but is attractive to companies already reliant on Microsoft’s services and is predicted to reach the $200 billion mark in revenue by 2028.
I think Microsoft is quite attractively valued with a forward P/E of 29 with a projected growth exceeding 10% a year, while getting a basically recession-resistant business model with a loyal, never declining, customer base and massive upscale potential for AI implementation.
Nvidia ($NVDA (-6,05 %) )
After being overtaken by Microsoft for the second place in the ranking of the largest companies in the world Nvidia currently sits in third. Nvidia is the AI market leader, way ahead of its supposed competition like AMD. All the CapEx spending of the hyperscalers is concentrated on Nvidia, this company is another one that can be said to be omnipresent.
If you look a few years back, Nvidia was mostly known to gamers for their high-quality GPUs, but since the start of the AI revolution the stock has really taken off and the true potential of Nvidia products has come to light.
And while these massive AI infrastructure spending is focusing on Nvidia, they don’t seem to disappoint with new products, like the highly capable Blackwell chips. At the head of this great company, a visionary man leads the way. Jensen Huang is one of the most successful Silicon Valley CEOs out there, with the appeal of a rock star.
I think Nvidia could be a generational buying opportunity and I believe in Jensen Huang’s vision for the future, especially with new partnerships with major players like GM for autonomous driving.
The stock is currently trading at a forward P/E ratio of 25 while hoping to achieve a 50% increase in revenue next year. And I think this could prove to be very realistic, especially when you think about where all the CapEx spending ultimately goes to.
I am of the wholehearted belief that rather sooner than later Nvidia will overtake Apple as the most valuable companies and all those who don’t use this recent drawdown as a buying opportunity will regret that for the rest of their lives.
Amazon ($AMZN (-6,32 %)
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As the market leader for online shopping Amazon has quite a brand recognition and yes, it is just one of the most convenient ways to order whatever your heart desires. The products amazon offers range from food to electronics to books and shelves. At this point there is almost nothing you could not buy on Amazon.
But that is not everything you get, when investing into the Amazon stock. With a forward P/E ratio of 25 you get the whole package Amazon has to offer: The online store as a core business, with a loyal customer base. Amazon Web Services, which impresses with 20% growth annually, as the leading cloud provider in the cloud oligopoly consisting of AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.
And then as an extra you get the stable subscription services business with Amazon Prime, that could continue to take market share from other streaming providers in the future.
As a whole Amazon is projected to achieve a CAGR of more than 10% for the next years, mainly driven by AWS, but the e-commerce should not be dismissed either, as it is the single most convenient way to get whatever you want delivered to your doorstep in a very short timeframe. I consider Amazon a buy, even if it not the most attractive one out of these seven companies, it is one with a lot of upside potential and a fair valuation.
Alphabet ($GOOGL (-3,55 %) )
Alphabet is another one of these companies that is an integral part of daily life. Even though Google as a search engine is the most well-known of Alphabets services, there is a lot more to discover.
YouTube as technically the largest streaming provider on earth, with over 2.5 billion monthly active users and high growth, even though it can’t be specifically measured as Alphabet doesn’t give out the exact figures for the subsidiaries, but rather posts revenue and profits as a whole combined in Google Services.
Another key growth driver is Google Cloud, which indeed currently is the smallest of the three main players, but it also has the highest growth rates, with 30% YoY, so it is catching up.
Another key step Alphabet took to make Google Cloud unique is the acquisition of the cyber security company Wiz and even though there is some concern about the high price tag that has been put on the company, Google has proven to be one of the best acquirers in the sectors. To give you some context, four out of the ten most profitable acquisitions were made by Google, including DoubleClick, YouTube, Android and Maps.
Which brings us to another key part of the Alphabet structure, Android. For those few of you out there who don’t use an iPhone or iPad, you will probably have been in contact with Andoid as an operating system. Samsung, Xiaomi and many other devices rely on Android. And as we can see now in China, Apple loses its dominance and other companies, using the Android system, are on the rise.
There are some concerns that Alphabet’s core business, Google Search, could be disrupted in the future by AI, but first let me say that I see that as a highly unlikely possibility, as there is no clear sign yet, rather the opposite can be seen, since Google Search saw almost a 10% Growth YoY. But even if there is a disruption in the future, it should be a process that takes many many years and who says that Google won’t be able to integrate its in-house AI model Gemini into their search monopoly.
I haven’t even mentioned Waymo, Google’s autonomous vehicle startup, as it is only in its early steps, but already way ahead of its competition, since it has compared to the so beloved Tesla already vehicles driving on the ground in several US cities, with notable partners such as UBER.
And all of that you produces a 10% growth YoY projected into the future, with Google Search building the core and the other sectors adding the growth. So what’s the price point for all this? After the recent sell-off the Alphabet stock trades at a forward P/E ratio of around 17, which is a great buying opportunity if you can live with the, in my opinion far-fetched, disruption risk.
Meta ($META (-7,03 %) )
Let’s move on to the next company on this list. Not just Mark Zuckerberg has made a stunning transition in appearances and political ideology throughout the last few years, his company formerly known as Facebook has too.
Let’s be honest nobody under the age of 60 uses Facebook anymore, but there is so much more to be found in the portfolio of Meta Platforms and the concerns of the company focusing too much on the Metaverse, which led to the stock tumbling a few years ago, have long vanished.
Meta has made one of the greatest acquisitions in history when they decided to buy Instagram, back in 2012 for a staggering amount of $1 billion. But it paid off massively and Meta has arguably the greatest platform in the social media landscape. Almost 70% of all internet users use WhatsApp as their primary communication platform and Instagram is right up there with TikTok, X and YouTube as the most used social media platforms.
Mark Zuckerberg created a monster in the communications industry and his recent shifts on user and behavioural guidelines on his platforms more towards the system X is using, by allowing free expression of opinions and reliant on community notes, could help broadening the customer base of Meta even more.
The Meta stock currently trades at a forward P/E ratio of 23 and is therefore one of the cheapest out of the Mag7 companies. The stock has had a good run in the beginning of the year, but came back to the levels of December 2024 and I would consider it a good buy, as it seems also quite recession and tariff resistent for the supposed uncertainty the market will have to fight with in the next months.
Tesla ($TSLA (-3,59 %) )
Everything I have to say about Tesla is that it is way more than about cars, it is about an entrepreneurial genius, who continues to impress with his ventures and innovations. Elon Musk can be considered to be one of the greatest entrepreneurs to have ever lived, whether we are talking about SpaceX, Neuralink or Tesla.
But nevertheless I think Tesla trading at forward P/E ration of more than 100 resembles the religious approach investors hold towards this stock and this man. I am familiar with the argument people are making about all the great innovations Tesla still has in store with autonomous driving or humanoid robots, but at this point there wasn’t much to be seen, apart from Waymo’s back in autonomous driving and a human-controlled robot demo.
But Elon Musk is no one to write off, it could be that tomorrow he announces another groundbreaking innovation, but for me personally it is not worth the risk and I’ll certainly stay out of the Tesla cult until Elon Musk decides to shift his focus away from his governmental experiments, more towards his companies again.
Conclusion
The Mag7 are one of the greatest companies in the world and they are in some cases quite cheap after the recent downturn and some of them are enormous opportunities for mid- to long-term investors, but depends how risk-averse you are.
Alphabet and Meta are as close to a no-brainer as you can get without missing something and Nvidia is the single hope and biggest force for America’s AI future. Others like Microsoft and Amazon I would consider fairly valued and stable companies with long-term potential and very few downside risks, while Tesla and Apple are not even remotely trading within my buy range. Apple has lost its edge, it is still a great company, a cash-producing monster, but growth at this stage is limited and the valuation is somewhat stretched. And Tesla is just a religion: You love it or you hate it, but you should never count it and especially its highly impressive CEO out.
So, use the current levels these fabulous companies are trading at as a buying opportunity, but always weigh downside risk against future potential.

Feedback on the portfolio
Hi everyone,
I am 21 years old and have been actively investing myself since 2019, before that my parents started investing money for me.
Now I started working at the beginning of the year and can currently invest €1000 per month, but I'm thinking about increasing it again if necessary, as I have enough left over at the end of the month.
I am currently saving $BRK.B (-2,23 %)
$NVDA (-6,05 %)
$AAPL (-6,25 %)
$MSFT (-2,62 %) and $META (-7,03 %) with 50€ each.
The ETFs $UST (-4,08 %)
$LYPS (-3,91 %)
$LYY7 (-1,56 %)
$IWRD (-3,84 %) and $LOCK (-6,6 %) with 150€ each.
I would like some feedback on what you think about diversification in the savings plan, or whether I should invest more in shares at a young age.
I will also be joining Trade Republic next month and will also be focusing on short-term trades as I have been looking into this a bit more recently.
I look forward to your feedback and what could be adjusted in general.
Best regards!
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg agree: the days of cell phones are numbered. Tim Cook sees it differently.
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Hello my dears,
What do you think about this? Could the smartphone really be a discontinued model in the not too distant future? And could you imagine carrying one of the other products around with you? Feel free to write your opinions and thoughts in the comments!
For Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, the days of cell phones will soon be over. They are speculating on other technology that will shape our lives in the future.
Cell phones are yesterday's technology - or at least a discontinued model. Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk are in relative agreement on this.
Tim Cook, on the other hand, still sees a lot of future potential in smartphones.
But regardless of whether tech billionaires say one way or the other, in the end it's always mainly about the money.
Mark Zuckerberg: Augmented reality glasses as the next big computer platform
Mark Zuckerberg is suddenly wearing glasses - at least in the fall of 2024, when he took to the stage at Meta's Connect in-house conference wearing chunky nerd glasses.
The glasses model was the Orion prototype.
In his opinion, the augmented reality glasses are an important step towards a hands-free smartphone alternative. It is therefore a completely different concept to the Asus AirVision M1, for example, which is intended more as a monitor replacement:
According to Meta and a report by WDR, users should be able to do the following things with Orion in the future, for example:
see holographic 3D images in the field of vision
be able to operate apps like on a smartphone
Make phone and video calls
Receive recipe suggestions by looking in the fridge
Receive navigation and directions
Orion can be operated with voice commands, eye movements and taps on the handlebar. With an additional EMG wristband, you can also swipe, click and scroll using gestures in the air.
The glasses are due to be launched on the market in 2027.
In his 2020 New Year's post on Facebook, Zuckerberg was already very confident about the potential of AR glasses:
"While I expect smartphones to remain our primary devices for much of this decade, sometime in the 2020s we'll see a breakthrough with augmented reality glasses that will redefine our relationship with technology."
The future Zuckerberg describes here, however, is above all one according to his own ideas: Meta has invested over 80 billion US dollars in the development of AR and VR technology since 2014, according to the Financial Times.
Elon Musk: Neuralinks instead of smartphones
For Elon Musk, cell phones and smartwatches have also been a technology of the past since 2020:
For the billionaire, the technology of the future is neuralinks. Neuralink is a company that Musk founded in 2016.
The company develops an interface between the brain and computer. It achieved its first success in early 2024: A 29-year-old paraplegic had a Neuralink implant successfully implanted in his brain.
But Neuralink is not just for sick people: This year, according to Wired, the company has filed trademark applications for several terms, including Telepathy. Telepathy is initially intended to enable people with paralysis to control computers and smartphones with their thoughts.
The next conceivable step is communication between people using telepathy, which would then be possible without a smartphone. Similar to Zuckerberg, Musk is also pursuing his own interests by announcing the end of the smartphone.
Tim Cook still sees a lot of innovation potential in the smartphone
Apple CEO Tim Cook remains unsurprisingly optimistic about the future of the iPhone.
According to MacRumors, in a conference call on the first quarter of 2025, he still sees many opportunities in the further development of smartphones:
"I think there's a lot of innovation left in the smartphone".
At the same time, Cook was quick to emphasize the great importance of artificial intelligence for the future. Unlike Mark Zuckerberg, for example, this does not make the smartphone unnecessary for him, but a key technology.
At least that's how he put it in a long interview with the Washington Post in 2016:
"Look at the core technologies that make up a smartphone today and those that will dominate in the smartphones of the future - like AI. AI will make this product even more indispensable to you. It will become an even better assistant than it is today."
Even if Cook's statements feel much more realistic in our everyday lives than those of Zuckerberg and Musk, there is a similar interest behind them to that of his tech billionaire colleagues: He, too, wants to still be selling his products to millions of people in 2030.
https://www.gamestar.de/artikel/musk-zuckerberg-cook-smartphone-zukunft,3429964.html

What would you do?
Imagine finding a bag with 15,000 euros in cash on a train. This is exactly what happened to a 33-year-old woman on ICE 1081 from Hanover to Munich. She discovered the bag full of 200 euro bills and handed it over to the Federal Police in Munich. The rightful owner has not yet been identified. If no one comes forward, the finder could receive a legal finder's reward of three percent, i.e. 450 euros.
What would the getquin community have done in this situation?
1. invested sensibly in an ETF, such as $IWDA (-3,86 %)
2. $4GLD (-2,27 %) safe is safe
3. all in $BTC (+0,21 %)
4. benefit from the current dip American tech companies, such as $GOOGL (-3,55 %) , $NVDA (-6,05 %) or $META (-7,03 %)
5. collect dividends just before the dividend season, such as $BATS (+3,96 %) , $ALV (-0,37 %) or $SREN (-0,17 %)
6. invest irrationally, e.g. $4X0 (-5,79 %) or $GME (-2,97 %)
7. or would you take the money to the police and fill your war chest with the finder's fee of EUR 450?
Personally, I would probably choose option 1. If the owner suddenly turned up on my doorstep, I could sell the ETF and give him the money back. There might be a little more left for me as a return than the EUR 450 I would receive from the police 😉
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