On: A $999 monitor stand is everything wrong with Apple today

[kmlx]

i own a dell monitor. it comes with the same type of stand, having the same functionalities. and it came with the monitor.

what is so different about apple’s monitor stand that warrants $1k?

[Terretta → kmlx]

Can you link to this “same type of stand”, please? It needs to have:

- floating counterbalanced vertical positioning for a screen of this weight.

- 90 degree rotation

Apple first released this kind of mechanism with the Pixar lamp iMac, to float its screen above the hemisphere base; I haven’t seen it for any consumer or prosumer monitor since.

[kmlx → Terretta]

maybe i'm misunderstanding something, but the following stand [0] appears to be identical to the apple one:

- Tilt and lift

- Switch from portrait to landscape with bi-directional pivoting

- 45-degree swivel

(Bi-directional pivoting, tilt adjustment +30° to -5°, swivel adjustment ±45°, 100 mm vertical lift range)

[0] https://www.dell.com/en-uk/shop/dell-optiplex-7760-all-in-on...

[setr → kmlx]

Whats truly odd is that it doesn’t matter whether the stand alone is worth so much — why didn’t they just add the price they wanted into the monitor itself, where price variability is less sensitive? Did they really want $5k pricetag that badly?

Instead they’ve created this ridiculous and unnecessary situation. It’s done as if they don’t actually want you to buy the stand.., but I don’t know what the alternative is? Is the mount significantly higher margins?

[DarkStar851 → kmlx]

This one comes wrapped in aluminum and has a fancy gif of it's doubtlessly over-engineered tilt mechanism!