You’d have spent $3054.82 in 1991 to buy all the stuff in this ad that you can now do with your phone. That amount is roughly equivalent to about $5100 in 2012 dollars.

For a fancy but not top-end device, we pay one third, or one fifth inflation adjusted, not three times as much.

For a budget device, we pay, what, 2%? Not 2% less, just 2%.