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It looks like an iMac. That’s why people used to shell out big bucks for Apple-branded displays back when they were a thing

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> people used to shell out big bucks for Apple-branded displays back when they were a thing

They still are:

Pro Display XDR https://www.apple.com/pro-display-xdr/

The pricing of the Pro Display XR makes it kind of „vaporware“. The difference is it does exist, you can buy it but with this insance pricing almost no one will buy it.

The old displays were a thing because they had really been affordable.

> almost no one will buy it

Just like reference monitors which are much pricier, it doesn't mean they have no reason to exist.

This Apple Display fits in a strange zone in between reference monitors and high quality "regular" displays (which the previous Apple [Cinema||Thunderbolt] Display went at) that no one else went for.

The question is, is there a market for that niche or is that a "Vader trash can" Mac Pro mistake again?

For what it's worth, rumors from last month have speculated that a regular iMac with an XDR-like chassis might be coming.

https://9to5mac.com/2021/01/15/new-imac-2021-apple-silicon/

Interesting. Wonder if the next iMac release will be M1-only - which would be pretty bad for a large part of the "creative audience" that iMacs are supposedly targeted at, given that the infrastructure is not there yet to make the switch (e.g. in music making, the plugins will take years to catch up and get rebuilt).

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