Steve Jobs Auction Features Apple-1, Bomber Jacket, Sealed Original iPhone, and More

[laptech]

Anyone check the jacket pockets? Maybe Steve scribbled on a napkin what he meant by “I finally cracked it.”

Or a used tissue paper with his snot/bogey on it. It be like that episode from Big Bang Theory of the napkin with Leonard Nimoy's DNA on it. The owner of the jacket could go crazy like Sheldon did....I have the DNA of Steve Job's!!!!

 

[laptech]

Imagine buying a 50k boxed sealed iPhone one, the mere act of opening it and verifying that’s it’s not a brick would cost you 45k.

That’s just a silly purchase for people with too much money and not enough sense. For goods sales give the money to charity and put it to good use.

A youtuber will buy it, just like the last time. They will get their money back from the video.

 

[GrayFlannel]

I understand that collecting memorabilia is an intensely personal hobby but of no interest to me.

 

[Ratlerbite]

It’s cringe to say it’s cringe lol. What kind of question is this?

Fine. Replace cringe with obnoxious..it’s all the same

 

[Crowbot]

Imagine buying a 50k boxed sealed iPhone one, the mere act of opening it and verifying that’s it’s not a brick would cost you 45k.

That’s just a silly purchase for people with too much money and not enough sense. For goods sales give the money to charity and put it to good use.

I imagine it can be verified by X-Ray. The auction house would guarantee the contents are as advertised.

 

[AF_APPLETALK]

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He was all about being a pirate but flexing that naval style anyway 🤭

 

[anthogag]

The never-opened iPhones are really annoying. If you see one...tear off the plastic and open the box 👊

 

[Le Big Mac]

Who cares about an “original iPhone”?. What is the value of old tech?. Not signed, not used by Steve himself, no nothing about it, just a little old useless hardware that is unusable now and that many of us remember, but got over it in just a year.

Even if it were signed by Jobs, what would be the "value"? I realize that there are some people who like to collect artifacts of this sort, and the market is driven by the assumption there will be more such people in the future to sell to eventually. But a 2007 iphone is, by itself, basically a piece of e-waste, even if you can turn it on. It has no meaningful current functionality.

[This is coming from someone who has a bunch of old baseball cards stashed away, btw - ah, the folly of youth.]

 

[laptech]

Even if it were signed by Jobs, what would be the "value"? I realize that there are some people who like to collect artifacts of this sort, and the market is driven by the assumption there will be more such people in the future to sell to eventually. But a 2007 iphone is, by itself, basically a piece of e-waste, even if you can turn it on. It has no meaningful current functionality.

[This is coming from someone who has a bunch of old baseball cards stashed away, btw - ah, the folly of youth.]

Sometimes old tech can have sentimental value to someone which is why they buy old tech stuff. For example, my first job was working for a mobile phone manufacturer, 19yrs old sitting at a bench filled with lots of test equipment to test electronic boards as they came off the production line. I was there for 13 years, 13 very good years. A few years ago I saw at auction one of the models of cellular phones I had worked on back when I 19yrs old. It immediately brought back a flood a memories. It was then I decided I had to have it. Every time I now see it the good memories of my time at the company come flooding back.

My example could be the same for the 4Gb iphone. Someone who was involved with the original iphone, production line worker, Apple retail worker, Apple support worker may see it the same way as I did with the cellular phone, a way to bring back memories of their time when the original iphone came out. Granted the price will put many people off but the reasons I just mention behind wanting it are still valid.