I still have my original iPhone and I have the custom shopping bag they made for it. The bag itself is worth a lot more than a used original iPhone.

But it launched a whole genre of devices.

Why was it a disaster in hindsight? Generally curious.

I doubt it. The first Mac computers still go for a lot in auctions.

If you have enough money to buy a $60k car I'd say you're doing well, but a $60k paper weight?

Collectors will buy whatever. It's a big hobby believe it or not. Pokemon games, unopened, can be upwards of 300-700 dollars!

They all know the game at this point. The first one to monetize something that shouldn't be monetized is ridiculed, and maybe delays rolling it out.

A handful of folks remember and point out how ridiculous it is when the second one does it. Then the third does it and we're used to getting screwed.

Luckily we're still on step one with car manufactures coopting the on-disc DLC model with BMW pay-walling heated seats.

In fifty it'll be worthless

At this point I assume it's gotta just be the Weird Aunts of the world.

There's just so little money in this model, I guess it's mostly free to give people a little checkmark, but it won't solve the revenue drop they've had after so many companies are getting out of social media advertising.

Just for reference Q4 revenue was down 4% over last year and net income was down a whopping 55%. Shit's bad at mother meta.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/meta-reports-fourth-quarter-and-full-year-2022-results-301736645.html

I remember playing Ultima IV on a Commodore 64.

Google's stock price UI (and most trading platforms' UI for that matter, I haven't heard of one that doesn't) retroactively adjusts historical prices when splits or reverse splits happen.

His "research" is just one video, without sources, probably.

An iPod touch (gen 1) worth anything as well? Lol, Ive got it still. Working, with box- John Lennon "themed". Idk about the charger tho..

Because they weren’t already an enormous profitable company? Now users can pay to have their data sold for them.

They'll be right, how else did they end up as conspiracy theorists if not for the smarts they lost

A lot of those prices for collectables, like retro games, are grossly skewed by "rating" companies. They buy/sell them internally to artificially inflate the price. There are some good documentaries about it on YouTube.

Edit: Here's the one I was thinking of, by Karl Jobst - Exposing fraud and deception in the retro video game market: https://youtu.be/rvLFEh7V18A

Side note - this is a similar scheme to what many saw with wild NFT price increases. Many, probably most, were done in a way where money never changed hands.

You just die over and over. And sometimes you make it but are poor as fuck

The same people buying this are the crypto bros and NFTeezers, Muskrat-jackers, and Beziboys. Just people of the digital world, the common circuit board of Silicon Valley. You know... morons.

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How does the programming/creation of an interactable augmented reality animation differ from an interactable animation in a video game?

My back hurts just thinking about lasting a whole minute, much less going again in the same night

Someone has way more money than brains.

Rich people are not taxed enough

What's funny about this is I actually know a guy who had like a beta tester iphone.

He worked in the tech industry and had a iPhone before they were ever actually released to the public, I got to fuck around with it when I was a kid it was the coolest shit ever.

It wasn't his though he didn't get to keep it. If I remember correctly he said he only got to have it for like a year before he had to send it back.

Had he somehow held on to that piece of technology I wonder how much it would be worth.

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replace the battery and keep it