Why You Can’t Complain About the Price of Today’s Gadgets
So your MacBook cost $1500—boo hoo. Thirty years ago, when the average salary was under $18,000, you’d have paid $2638 for an Apple II with 48K of RAM ($7770 in today’s dollars). And a cellphone? Waaaay more. Cellular technology had been in development since the early ’50s, but cellphones didn’t become commercially available until Motorola’s…
