If you bought Apple stock instead of phones, you'd have $170K | TechCrunch

A tweet says that if you had bought Apple shares instead of an iPhone every time they came out, you'd have hundreds of millions of dollars .

The exact numbers are below.

If you had done that, by my calculations, you’d have spent around $16,000 on iPhones over the years (that’s around $20,000 in today 's dollars) If you'd bought shares instead, you would today have $ 147,000 or so — or a profit of around $131,000 .