Then Apple wouldn&#x27;t be Apple. This makes me think of the reflexivity idea Soros wrote about in Alchemy of Finance. It&#x27;s valid to bemoan not buying Apple stock 20 years ago, because the purchase wouldn&#x27;t influence company trajectory. Looking back wistfully at not buying the company completely changes the situation with restructuring, M&amp;A integration issues, key people leaving or losing autonomy, Apple development fitting into the Sun vision rather than independently.<p>I think an interesting counterpoint would be to imagine what some companies could have gone on to accomplish if they hadn&#x27;t been acquired, then killed. There&#x27;s been tons of promising&#x2F;interesting companies acquired, then never heard from again.