John Siracusa

I feel like they very often travel with their displays in a Mac Pro-like trajectory where they make bad product decisions and say, well, see, look, no one's buying it.

It's like, well, what are you doing?

Yeah.

it's not like as we'll see in a second it's not like there aren't ways to continue charging ridiculous margins on monitors you just gotta make a really fancy really nice one and then you know you get your margins but like trying to be like like as someone pointed out i forgot who it was i'm sorry but like someone was saying it's just such a shame that apple does not make any basic monitors as we'll see when we discuss later products apple is getting better at making just the basic version of a lot of its products

But monitors, it's like, no, there's no such thing as a basic monitor from Apple.

You have to buy it from a third party.

And that's terrible.

Like there should, yes, by all means, make these fancy monitors, right?

But there should be, you know, Studio Display Neo.

You know what I mean?

Like there should be a basic monitor for people who just wanted a monitor.

Why won't you sell it to them, Apple?

Yes, the margins will be a little bit lower, but like, anyway, this thing, this thing is a dud.

Is that the only significant difference?

I would guess so.

Maybe the viewing angle is a little better.

Maybe the image retention isn't quite, but it's ridiculous.

Oh, and this monitor has a faster CPU than that iMac.

Yeah, if they had made this the basic panel and lowered it to $999 or something like that, we'd all been singing its praises.

We'd be like, finally, if you just want a basic monitor, you have a Mac laptop, you want to get an Apple monitor to match it, you don't care about fancy specs, this is the one for you.