On March 20, 2025, an auction will offer a plastic-wrapped iPhone 1. Its final price should easily beat the previous record, which was already very high for a device of this type.
We are at a point where no one will want to throw away any object “just in case”. In case in a few years, it is resold at a high price to wealthy nostalgic collectors, to the great joy of the person who has kept a copy during all this time.
You only have to open the least auction site to realize it. Pokémon cards, simple pieces of cardboard illustrated if you take a step back, are snapped up for more than a studio. The same goes for vinyl records of famous artists, or iPhones.
Since a first-generation iPhone 4 GB version found a buyer for 40,000 euros in 2022, it is who will find another one to make a profit. Each time one of them leaves, its price is higher than the previous one. 51,500 euros in 2023 for example, up to the current record of 140,000 euros, just that. And it risks climbing further.
An iPhone 1 is going to be sold at auction at a price that promises to be exorbitant
The RR Auction site, specialized in in the sale of such items, opens the event Steve Jobs and the Apple Revolution, during which you can bid on an Apple-1 computer with its accessories and manual, business cards of Steve Jobs, his photo as well as that of Steve Wzsniak taken from their “yearbook” (a kind of yearbook of students in American high schools), or even a iPhone 1 sealed 4 GB.
This is the rarest model, released in 2007 with the 8 GB, but quickly abandoned due to its commercial failure, everyone preferring the superior model. According to specialists, it should go for more than 180,000 euros when the auction closes on March 20, 2025. At the time of publishing this article, it is at exactly $1,612. Now is the time to get started, provided you can go well above this amount.
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