{"id":723575,"date":"2010-04-26T08:00:37","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T12:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10004968"},"modified":"2010-04-26T00:13:47","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T04:13:47","slug":"if-only-youd-bought-apple-stock-instead-of-an-apple-computer-back-in-97","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/723575","title":{"rendered":"If Only You&#8217;d Bought Apple Stock Instead Of An Apple Computer Back In &#8217;97"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/apple-thumb-158x105-39705.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>Apple fans boast of the company&#8217;s hardware and software reliability, but product performance has got nothing on Apple&#8217;s ability to rock the stock market. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kyleconroy.com\/apple-stock.php\">According to KyleConroy<\/a>, it would have been much smarter to have invested in Apple stock rather than computers. <\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d taken the $5,700 it cost to buy an Apple PowerBook G3 250 when it came out in 1997 and invested it in Apple stock, you&#8217;d have $330,000 now. Makes you think twice about springing for an iPad.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kyleconroy.com\/apple-stock.php\">What if I had bought Apple stock instead?<\/a> [KyleConroy]<br \/>\n<em>(Thanks, Jonathan!)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple fans boast of the company&#8217;s hardware and software reliability, but product performance has got nothing on Apple&#8217;s ability to rock the stock market. According to KyleConroy, it would have been much smarter to have invested in Apple stock rather than computers. If you&#8217;d taken the $5,700 it cost to buy an Apple PowerBook G3 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-723575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-32ez","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}