22july2013
The $599 price was with a two or three year contract, so buying it without a contract, if you could do that, would have cost about $1000, which would be worth about $1500 in today's dollars, due to inflation. Taking these two factors into consideration, the value of the unopened box has increased by a factor of 20. That's still pretty good. The stock has jumped by a factor of 50 since then, although I don't think that accounts for inflation (if you accounted for inflation, the stock jump is probably closer to 33.)
