Ah, apologies, I was being a bit unclear. The only way to daisy chain any series of displays anywhere in the Apple universe is by plugging Thunderbolt Display

Ah, apologies, I was being a bit unclear. The only way to daisy chain any series of displays anywhere in the Apple universe is by plugging Thunderbolt Display into a Thunderbolt Display into a Thunderbolt port. Daisy chaining is not being demonstrated in this post's picture. (There is a limited and unsupported scenario where this not quite true, but it's not worth getting into.) Given adapters, you can plug basically any display ever made into a Mac and expect it to work. But it's got to be going straight into the Mac. (USB "DisplayLink" soft-displays break every one of these rules via special drivers)