I wonder whether we might get to witness audience booing again for another outrageous Apple product as pre-recorded Apple events works great for their goals.

I think the Pro Display XDR & stand were less “outrageous” and more “aimed at a niche market most of us don’t know much about.” People were expecting something consumer / prosumer and Apple made something aimed at the professional market.

> “aimed at a niche market most of us don’t know much about.”

Then Apple should have demonstrated the $1000 stand to those niche market separately instead of trying to sell the aspiration of 'Pro' devices to the consumer in an usual consumer event.

Apple didn’t announce it at an event for general consumers, they announced it at WWDC. WWDC is an Apple event, run by Apple, to announce Apple products. Not all Apple products are aimed at general consumers.

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.

> 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?

You're right, I stand corrected. It was a WWDC, hence original reaction from audience as opposed to usual scripted applause/laughter/camera pans.

If only all "Pro" Apple products were actually aimed at professionals. The trashcan was a disaster. The MBP line continues to be a sad joke.

Seems less like it’s funny, and more like it’s aimed at a niche market.

How to does breaking existing compatibility with 3rd party products fit in to that?

Are we still talking about a monitor stand? You can VESA mount the monitor if you don’t want to buy the stand. I think it’s assumed you’d use a third-party VESA mount, and the stand is there as an alternative for the few people who just don’t want that.. As far as I can tell, you can use a standard VESA mount, you don’t need some kind of Apple-specific one.

> As far as I can tell, you can use a standard VESA mount, you don’t need some kind of Apple-specific one.

To connect a VESA mount to the magnetic mount on the back of the Pro Display XDR, you would require Apple's $200 VESA mount adapter.

It's dongles all the way down!