The crowd reaction is in the original video hosted at Apple. Not like it's suppressed as part of some conspiracy. They announce the price and the crowd laughs

The crowd reaction is in the original video hosted at Apple. Not like it's suppressed as part of some conspiracy. They announce the price and the crowd laughs a bit (like whaaaat?) It's clearly very expensive, but it's a bunch of complicated engineering in that stand, and I am betting that the cost crept up on them. The executives probably weren't keeping an eye on this from a cost perspective. And undoubtedly they chose a manufacturing process for low volume, higher cost, but didn't realize how much higher until late in the game. Seems clear to me that the Apple presenter (I forget his name) tried to quickly breeze past the cost of the stand to avoid an uncomfortable crowd reaction, not quite successfully. It is obvious that they priced the stand separately so you can just buy whatever stand you want, if you don't want the fancy one. [edit] Everything about the new Pro is over-the-top. It is a bit crazy to see. Seems to be signalling a new direction or something. Or they are testing the waters. Clearly they have the capability of creating an absolutely insane device, they just have to internally justify it in terms of the engineering investment.