It's Apple's 50th Birthday — And These Moves Could Ignite the Stock

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I’m writing this from a hotel room in Boston — where America’s colonial history is in your face … and I mean everywhere.

The Old North Church … the USS Constitution (“Old Ironsides”) … Paul Revere’s House … Bunker Hill … the Old State House, whose shadow touches the site of the Boston Massacre … and Fenway Park. (Okay, okay … Fenway isn’t colonial — but it is sacred to baseball fans.)

Seeing all that history reminded me yet again that 2026 is America’s 250th birthday — the country’s “semiquincentennial.” (Say that three times fast while you’re downing a chilled lobster roll at Ye Olde Union Oyster House, one of the oldest continually operating restaurants in America — and a dining spot that JFK himself was said to favor.)

Planning has been underway for a decade. Boston, Philly, D.C., the Big Apple — and my old stomping grounds, Pittsburgh, believe it or not — will host big celebrations.

I was a teenager in 1976 — the year of the American Bicentennial. And, for those who remember, America did up that birthday in a big way. The “tall ships” visiting U.S. cities and a reenactment of George Washington’s famed crossing of the Delaware played out in extravagant ways; the fact that I remember all the fun we had after 50 years tells you how exciting that was for my family and for so many folks we knew back then.

There’s another celebration slated for this year.

April 1, 2026, is the 50th birthday of Apple Inc. $AAPL ( ▼ 3.46% ) .

Fifty isn’t 250. But that’s not a downer. Apple’s done more in half a century than most entrepreneurs dream of doing when they do that back-of-envelope “workup” following a multi-day brainstorming spree fueled by espresso and Red Bull.

Apple’s been transformative. It changed our lives — how we live and how we work. It created an addictive ecosystem. Heck, I’m writing this story on a MacBook while texting on my brand-new iPhone Pro Max. And I’m listening to the broadcast stream of my Pittsburgh Penguins NHL team on my Apple iPad. (I left my Apple Watch at home — or I’d have that with me, too.)

In doing so, it made shareholders rich, says David G. Zeiler, a good friend and longtime colleague who’s an acknowledged expert on cryptocurrencies … Big Tech … and Apple.

From roughly $350 billion back in 2011, Apple’s market value has rocket-boosted its way to $4 trillion right now — a number that dwarfs the economies of all but the world’s biggest countries.

Dave believes Apple’s “silver anniversary” will also be a very big year.

“Bill, we all know that Apple had something of an up-and-down year in 2025,” Dave told me. “But, given that this is its 50th anniversary, I expect the company to celebrate that milestone with multiple major product launches. And there’s at least one that could turn into a full-blown blockbuster.”

A foldable phone … a tech device to (in effect) turn your entire house into a giant computer … a new “wearable AI” product for everyday consumers … and perhaps some “affordable” offerings that’ll get its powerful technologies into the hands of more people.

We could also see a change at the top — the first change since 2011.

In his latest analysis — “Heads Up, Apple Investors: 2026 Figures to Be An Unusually Busy Year” — Dave speculates what those products might be. And he shows us how they could boost its sales and earnings — and, with that, its stock price.

He also “handicaps” a possible changeover at CEO.

Take some time and check this out.

Dave is good — in fact, he’s very good. I like to tell folks about the time, years back, that he scored an in-person, one-on-one interview with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. That interview was picked up by media organizations as far away as Europe.

And his predictions for Apple and Bitcoin, through the years, have tended to be spot-on.

See you later this week.