An enterprising Digg user has been doing some number-crunching around the ongoing rise in Apple's share price, and they've come up with something interesting.
Apparently, if you'd spent $399 on Apple shares in 2001 instead of buying an iPod, by now, those shares would be worth more than $10,000. Zounds! Of course, you wouldn't have had the pleasure of an iPod for those six years since, but ten thousand smackers says you wouldn't mind too much...
(via Digg)
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That's a bit disingenuous if you ask me - of course any consumer good is going to decrease in value over time (until it becomes an antique and is valuable again) - and especially with electronic goods where Moore's Law and advances in display/storage technology. And of course, if everyone had bought Apple shares instead of iPods they would never have got their return anyway...