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by biaachmonkie 1781 days ago
Yeah, that's what got me about the announcement, like how could they totally "misread the room" so to speak? At their Developer conference they announce that "overpriced display" ( overpriced for developer audience ). And the $1000 stand was possibly the most tone-deaf product announcement ever from them, just totally the wrong time and place for that.

What I don't get is why they have never just simply taken the 5K display from the iMac and made it a standalone display, Displayport has been able to handle the bandwidth for years now, HDMI can handle it now as well.

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> Yeah, that's what got me about the announcement, like how could they totally "misread the room" so to speak?

I don’t get what is so wrong here.

> What I don't get is why they have never just simply taken the 5K display from the iMac and made it a standalone display, Displayport has been able to handle the bandwidth for years now, HDMI can handle it now as well.

I don’t understand why people want this. You can get a 5K display from other vendors, why do you want one from Apple, specifically?