Most expensive iPhone ever sold was for…, original iPods got huge amount of…, first ever Apple computer…
Apple products: iPhone is arguably Apple’s most popular and in demand product since it was announced by then–Apple CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs on January 9, 2007, at Macworld 2007, and launched later that year.
Forbes has reported that a first-generation iPhone was sold at auction in 2023 for a whopping Rs 1,62,51,708.43 ($190,373). This amount is nearly 380 times $499, the original price of the smartphone during its release in 2007.
That particular piece was a 4GB first-generation iPhone counted as a rare model hard to find due to it being discontinued two months after debuting. It is interesting to note that the 4 GB iPhone is 20 times rarer than the 8 GB model, which cost $599, came with more memory, and released at the exact same time.
The record-breaking iPhone sold by LCG Auctions is not the only bit of vintage tech that has scored a high price. In fact, it was the third original iPhone to fetch a high price on the auction block in less than a year’s time with an 8 GB model selling for just over $63,356 in February 2023 and another 8GB model going for nearly $39,340 in October 2022. Every single one of these devices came in their original packaging, making them more valuable as they were found to be in perfect condition, reports www.gobankingrates.com.
It is not just the first generation iPhones that are in high demand, original iPods are in demand as well because they are extremely hard to come by today and sought out by collectors who are constantly on the hunt for this revolutionary device as it was the MP3 player that changed how the world listened to music forever, allowing users to download songs from their computer and keep all of them stored in their pocket.
Some original iPods that are still in their packaging and can work today have gone for as much as Rs 76,83,094.55 ($90,000) at auction, while those out of the box are able to get tens of thousands of dollars from eager collectors.
The bonus is the first ever computer from Apple known as the Apple-1 that was built in 1976 by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak in Steve Jobs’ garage. It was one of the first 50 machines the company released in its early days and cost $666.66 when it debuted.
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