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By up-market, they're pushing themselves out of my market. $999 for a stand? No thanks, I can think of plenty of better things to spend $999 on.
by october_sky 7y ago
By up-market, they're pushing themselves out of my market. $999 for a stand? No thanks, I can think of plenty of better things to spend $999 on.
- dmix 7y agoYou probably weren't their target market then. Most likely it will be companies buying this for their employees, not consumers for themselves. Whether releasing this without an upgraded consumer/prosumer level display was a good idea is another question.
- xienze 7y ago> Most likely it will be companies buying this for their employees, not consumers for themselves. I understand the whole "money is no object for real professionals" line of thinking, but: a) it's unlikely that the $1000 stand improves productivity in any appreciable way over a regular stand and b) if you had 10 employees and you found a way to significantly cut down on that $1000 stand price (say, with that $200 VESA mount, what a steal in comparison!), you could pay for an extra Mac Pro with the savings I think Apple has managed to price something so poorly that even "I'm such a professional I don't care what it costs" professionals have to do a double take.
- IshKebab 7y agoI've never worked in a company that would blow $1k on a stand. Assuming it is VESA mount they'll just buy a cheaper alternative. If it isn't I'm sure some Chinese companies will oblige soon enough.
- extra88 7y agoThe stand connector is custom but Apple sells a VESA adapter for “only” $200.
- spronkey 7y agoThe contrast effect at play. Make the stand $999 to make $200 seem like a reasonable price for the VESA adaptor, when in fact it should be built in to the display like it is on basically ever other pro-level display.