{"id":172145,"date":"2023-09-16T12:25:36","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T17:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/if-youd-bought-apple-shares-instead-of-iphones-youd-now-have-147000"},"modified":"2023-09-16T12:25:36","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T17:25:36","slug":"if-youd-bought-apple-shares-instead-of-iphones-youd-now-have-147000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/if-youd-bought-apple-shares-instead-of-iphones-youd-now-have-147000","title":{"rendered":"If you\u2019d bought Apple shares instead of iPhones, you\u2019d now have $147,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/if-youd-bought-apple-shares-instead-of-iphones-youd-now-have-1470002.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What would happen if, instead of buying the newest iPhone every time Apple launches one, you bought that same amount of Apple stock? There is a tweet floating around 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<p>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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What would happen if, instead of buying the newest iPhone every time Apple launches one, you bought that same amount of Apple stock? There is a tweet floating around 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 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}