Picture this: you’re casually browsing for the latest iPhone 16 Pro Max, excited for better battery life and cameras that can spot your pores from space… and then you spot the price tag - $2,300.

Picture this: you’re casually browsing for the latest iPhone 16 Pro Max, excited for better battery life and cameras that can spot your pores from space… and then you spot the price tag – $2,300.

It’s 2007. Steve Jobs walks onto the stage, holds up a sleek, black slab of glass, and says, “Today, Apple is going to reinvent the phone.” The world gasps. In the following years, the world would ...