![]() The Omega Sports Apple Computer sneakers. Priced at $50,000 and featuring the old-school rainbow Apple logo, the size 10.5 sneakers were custom-made for Apple employees for a giveaway at a National Sales Conference in the mid-1990s. Yet another pair of Apple-related shoes is currently being offered by Sotheby’s in its Buy Now marketplace. SEE ALSO: The Banana Yellow iPhone 14 Is Another Apple Marketing Trick Originally sold for $2,000, the run-down shoes were recovered from the trash before heading to auction in 2016. In November, an old pair of Birkenstocks worn by Steve Jobs during the early days of Apple sold for $200,000 at Los Angeles-based Julien’s Auctions. Apple collectors have continued snapping up vintage models in recent years-and their interests stretch beyond technology. In 2014, Bonhams sold an Apple-1 computer, one of the 50 hand-built by Wozniak in Jobs’ garage, for an astounding $905,000 to the Henry Ford Museum. RR Auctions’ first-generation iPhone is far from the first Apple product to bring in significant demand at auction. RR Auctions A collector craze for Apple memorabilia A 1967 Apple check signed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak has a bid of nearly $90,000. Meanwhile, a fully operational Apple-1 computer signed by Wozniak tops the lots with an estimate of $200,000. Fans of the company can purchase Apple’s second-ever check (a 1976 Wells Fargo bank check signed by Apple co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak and written out to circuit board company PCB Maker) or an advertisement draft for the Apple-1 computer handwritten by Jobs the same year. Many of the collectibles date to Apple’s inception in the 1970s. The boxed and sealed iPhone is one of more than 70 lots in the auctioneer’s “Apple, Steve Jobs, Computer Hardware” sale, which also contains memorabilia like an Apple computer mouse prototype and an iPhone 11 autographed by Tim Cook. “The iPhone ushered in the modern age of the smartphone and catapulted Apple to the top of the world’s most valuable companies,” said Bobby Livingston, executive vice president of RR Auctions, in a statement. Developed in secrecy, the first-generation iPhone was revealed to the world by Steve Jobs, whose iconic keynote address described it as “a revolutionary and magical product that is literally five years ahead of any mobile phone.” The model ushered in new and innovative features, such as its touchscreen interface and the App Store, that would become standard on all phones.
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