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If you invested $666.66 (original price) in 1976 into the S&P500, you would have about $22k today. $87k if you invested it in the NASDAQ. In conclusion I will be putting all of my money into weird first-generation devices from now on.

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I'd love to see some webapp that calculates how much your Apple shares would be worth if you bought stock equivalent to the purchase price of that Apple product. I think it'd be pretty fascinating to see how much my shares would be worth if I bought stock instead of a 2nd generation iPod.

Close to what you're asking for: https://conroy.org/apple-stock

-first-generation devices_

any recommendations?

I was joking, that's the wrong conclusion. The math does not actually work out. Taking the low estimate (S&P500): 400k/22k = 18x multiplier. So, worst-case scenario, you'd need 1 in 18 devices to pay out that well to break even. Closer to 1 in 5 if you take the larger (NASDAQ) number.

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