Buying Apple stock instead of products

katykelley:

In 2001, a PowerBook G4 would have set you back $3500. Suppose instead that you had purchased $3500 in Apple stock instead of the computer…that stock would now be worth about $110,000. Even an original iPod’s worth in AAPL ($399) would be worth almost $12,000 today. (via)

I remember when I got my first nifty little stock ticker widget on the then new My Yahoo! homepage and AAPL was $7 a share.  Crazy what 10 years can do.