What would happen if, instead of buying the newest iPhone every time Apple launches one, you bought that same amount of Apple stock?<\/p>\n
There is a tweet floating around<\/a> saying that if you had bought Apple shares instead of an iPhone every time they came out, you\u2019d have hundreds of millions of dollars. The math is off (if you\u2019d spent $20k on Apple stock when the rumors of the iPhone first started, you\u2019d have $1.5 million today, at best) but in any case \u2013 it\u2019d only make sense if you were clairvoyant in 2007, and knew when Apple would be launching phones, and at which price.<\/p>\n I figured a more fair way of calculating it would be to imagine buy a top-of-the-line iPhone every time Apple releases a new iPhone, or spend the same amount on Apple stock. If you had done that, by my calculations, you\u2019d have spent around $16,000 on iPhones over the years (that\u2019s around $20,000 in today\u2019s dollars). If you\u2019d bought Apple shares instead, you\u2019d today have $147,000 or so \u2014 or a profit of around $131,000.<\/p>\n Apple\u2019s stock price has rallied significantly since the launch of the original iPhone. Here\u2019s a chart including the stock splits. Image Credits:<\/strong> Screenshot from MacroTrends<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The exact numbers are below:<\/p>\n Gotta love a good Google Sheet, some ChatGPT and Google Finance. See the original sheet here<\/a>, if you\u2019re that<\/em> kind of nerd. Image Credits:<\/strong>\u00a0Haje Kamps.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n And for some actually\u00a0useful<\/em> Apple coverage, check out all of our coverage from the Apple Fall Event 2023<\/a>!<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Apple-Stock-Price.png\")
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