In a moment of financial and emotional self-harm, I decided to look at the price of the first Apple product I bought, and ask myself "what would I have if I had just bought apple stock of the same value instead?"
I bought my first iBook in April 2004 for £699, at that point in 2004 that was $1300. Which would have bought me 2999 apple shares at 43c a piece.
The current stock price is $178.44.
That $1300 invested then would be $535,320, though
this site actually says it would be just over $700k. Either way, I done fucked up.
I now tend to invest a lot of money into index funds and trackers and don't spend a great deal on tech...!
I'm not sure 13 year old me would have forgiven me though for not getting my first laptop though.