According to an article in The New York Times today, if you had $5700 in 1997 and bought a brand new G3 Apple Powerbook today, if it was ‘in good nick’ you might squeeze $50 from eBay for it. However, if you had spent that same money on Apple stock you would now be sitting on over $330,000 worth of shares. I know which I’d prefer. Take a look at the chart below or go to the full original article here to see more amazing facts…especially the differences between Apple and HP stock.
Joanne Carter BA (Hons), ARPS is a British photographer, photography journalist, editor and curator, and the founder and editorial director of TheAppWhisperer.com, an independent international photography publication established in 2009.She holds a First Class Honours degree in Photography and is an Associate of the Royal Photographic Society (ARPS).Her journalism, criticism and editorial work have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography and NikonPro, among other international publications.Through TheAppWhisperer, she brings together academic knowledge, professional photographic expertise and more than 17 years of specialist editorial experience to examine contemporary photography, mobile imaging, computational photography, photographic applications and emerging imaging technologies.