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Apple Discontinues Thunderbolt Display

Mr. Dee said:
Well, this rumor changes everything we have said for the past 17 pages:
https://www.macrumors.com/2016/06/24/thunderbolt-display-integrated-gpu/

Apple still loves their truck business.
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I don't know if that rumor is anywhere close to accurate. It may be that they were planning a new display and scrapped it at the last minute. Apple was very clear in telling people to buy other peoples displays. Wouldn't make sense to tell everyone to go home and then be like; "wait guys, just kidding!"
 
peterdevries said:
What a bunch of nonsense. There is not a product in Apple´s lineup that is not suited for many professional uses. You are just regurgitating the same stuff that many people here have been saying for years, without actually providing any meaningful backup.

How is the discontinuation of a display evidence of the abandonment of professional users?
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Because it forces professionals - people who use their setups to make money for a living - to go elsewhere for a segment of it.

If you honestly think that Apple is doing ANYTHING to support actual professionals with their "pro" labeled products, you need to lay off the Kool Aid. Professionals have been cast by the wayside by Apple over and over, and this is just another push to drive them elsewhere in favor of casual consumers that don't need more than a crippled mobile OS or a single port for hardware.

Apple has products that are usable, yes. But their numbers are dwindling, and the competing companies offering more for far less money are rising. Tim Cook has focused the company on what makes Apple the most profit - mobile devices sold to those who want consumption devices. That fact is perpetually made clear.
 
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Cartossin said:
Why is everyone so negative about this? The thunderbolt display is old and the minidisplayport/thunderbolt connector is about to become legacy. Apple will refresh the Mac-pro, macbook pro, air, mini with USB-C models and likely release a usb-c display. The TB display was great in its day, but it is definitely time to discontinue it.
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Basically Apple didn't learn a damn thing from firewire in launching thunderbolt, except that they could charge more for adapters.

I tried to move back onto the Apple platform in 2012 with the rMBP. It's great hardware, so good that even 2016s barely outperform it, but now it seems that everything people thought Cook was going to do with the company is coming true.

Just as an example, as I keep track of things, they are about 3 years late on shipping a rMBA. It's a tiny, incremental update that would probably add about $20 in cost to a $1000 product, added $200 worth of value and have it flying off the shelves. It would have been so compelling that the surface line would not get any traction, and it probably would have been worth about 5%-10% additional market share as students and business would buy it, and it would cause higher lock in to the Apple ecosystem. Instead, today, we have an the same rMBPs that released in 2012, a USB3 gimp machine and a bunch of bracelets.

He's chasing margins by cutting costs rather than earning high margins through innovation. It's a game that has a 3-5 year benefit, and will collapse the company as they lose their top people and culture to accounting.
 
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btrach144 said:
Apple is now dead to me.
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...Because they discontinued a ridiculously overpriced/outdated monitor? It still had a MagSafe 1 connector for ****'s sake. You can get a really, really good LG 4K monitor for less than half of what they were charging for the TB Display.

For the love of god, stop being so melodramatic.
 
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TheDoctor7x said:
...Because they discontinued a ridiculously overpriced/outdated monitor? It still had a MagSafe 1 connector for ****'s sake. You can get a really, really good LG 4K monitor for less than half of what they were charging for the TB Display.

For the love of god, stop being so melodramatic.
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Wow, you'd die for Apple huh? I just simply said that Apple is dead because they stopped producing their monitor and didn't announce a MODERN replacement. This move shows that Apple doesn't care about their Mac users, which I am one. Annoyed user at that.

Edit: I should add that you should check yourself out as well. Cursing over what I posted and saying I'm the dramatic one? Yeah, okay dude.
 
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Old tech and overpriced. They had to discontinue it. They have something else planned I would think
 
Could be two things:

1) A new display will have an entirely new name - hence killing the TB Display.

2) They're slowly dumping all the professional-level gear in favour of further emoticon development. Just wait - next will be the MacPro. Every time Apple neglects a product for years on end e.g. Aperture, X-Serve, Thunderbolt Displays etc. it dies a horrible death. I've vowed never to use Apple's professional software packages again (what's left of them), I got burned with the whole Aperture debacle and wasted a ton of time moving-over to Lightroom.

I would have loved to have a TB Display on my desk. Everything else is plastic junk. I've paid the premium in the past, but paying $1K for a display that has the innards of a $150 Dell or similar is utterly ridiculous. It is beautiful - design wise - but there are much better panels available these days. The panel on my 4K Dell is stunning ... despite being plasticky and cheap looking.
 
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EiriasEmrys said:
This is just simply not true, this product and most TB products are used everyday by professionals like myself in the film industry. My clients give me thunderbolt raids as the only connection that can offer high enough speeds for working with 4k and 8k footage. If you don't use it, it doesn't mean it doesn't have its place. The design of the monitor as well as the functionality was worth the price. today, no. but a couple years ago yes.
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So a RAID config can't run an a universally supported connection that will deliver the maximum speeds the drives can handle at 1/3 the price? You take 2 or 3 or 4 HDDs, all of which max out at around 150mb/s read/write speeds and only at FOUR drives would you saturate it at 640mbps on USB 3.0. USB 3.1 doubles that speed too and only SOME SSD drives reach those speeds. So all your doing is paying more for an alternative that doesnt offer anything superior and limits your device connectivity (unless that doesnt matter).

So why is TB needed?
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TheDoctor7x said:
...Because they discontinued a ridiculously overpriced/outdated monitor? It still had a MagSafe 1 connector for ****'s sake. You can get a really, really good LG 4K monitor for less than half of what they were charging for the TB Display.

For the love of god, stop being so melodramatic.
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LMAO, I love it when people use logic. So underrated.
 
briloronmacrumo said:
It seems Tim is a logistics guy and not the creative thinker/innovator Apple needs ( somewhere - doesn't have to be the CEO ). If Apple's next quarter doesn't meet sales goals there might be shareholders asking Tim to focus his time on Apple's business and not evangelizing social issues.
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I hope your right!
 
Cineplex said:
I don't know if that rumor is anywhere close to accurate. It may be that they were planning a new display and scrapped it at the last minute. Apple was very clear in telling people to buy other peoples displays. Wouldn't make sense to tell everyone to go home and then be like; "wait guys, just kidding!"
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Unless this rumored new display requires USB-C or Thunderbolt 3, in which case no current Macintosh model (other than the updated Macbook if USB-C) can work with it. So for anyone with a Mac or looking to buy a current model Mac would have to go third-party for an external display.
 
btrach144 said:
This move shows that Apple doesn't care about their Mac users, which I am one. Annoyed user at that.
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The thing newbies like doctor don't understand (or care to understand) is that for a lot of longtime mac users the melodrama isn't simply over a monitor. It's the overall rot of the Apple ecosystem of which the monitor is just an example of.

Like I said in an earlier post, Apple's new business strategy - codename "donut" - is to have peripherals with nothing worth connecting them to.
 
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Boston007 said:
Apple Fanboys LOL
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So youre not loyal to any products or brands? Beer, wine, booze, cars, trucks, golf clubs, game consoles, shoes, sports teams, guns? Really? Nothing ? must be an exciting life. Theres too much drama on this forum.

Apple doesnt pre announce new product until they are about to start shipping, so this is no surprise and not worth all this sad drama.
 
itsasony said:
So youre not loyal to any products or brands? Beer, wine, booze, cars, trucks, golf clubs, game consoles, shoes, sports teams, guns? Really? Nothing ? must be an exciting life. Theres too much drama on this forum.

Apple doesnt pre announce new product until they are about to start shipping, so this is no surprise and not worth all this sad drama.
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Sad drama? You just insulted another forum member by saying they lead a pathetic life. Really???
 
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btrach144 said:
Apple is now dead to me.
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It is hilarious how upset people are getting over this. Of all the things to discontinue, their displays made the most sense. There are so damn many alternatives out there that have been better/less expensive for years. I'm surprised people aren't upset that Apple stopped making printers too.
 
I so need a new monitor to replace my gen1 27" LED Cinema Display. But even after all these years it is still working as well as it did when I bought it, just hoping for something lighter to comfortably mount on a swing arm and with much higher resolution to make up for the fact my eyes are getting old. If it looks sharp I will probably get two.
 
itsasony said:
So youre not loyal to any products or brands? Beer, wine, booze, cars, trucks, golf clubs, game consoles, shoes, sports teams, guns? Really? Nothing ? must be an exciting life. Theres too much drama on this forum.

Apple doesnt pre announce new product until they are about to start shipping, so this is no surprise and not worth all this sad drama.
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To be fair. Apple loyalty is not the same kind of loyalty to corn flakes. There is a lot of passion and emotion behind the Mac or PC choice for most "power users" (there's a 90's term for you). Apple killing products gets taken very personally for a lot of people. Killed products rarely come back and says more than just "we killed the product". The iPhone SE design is the only thing I can think of recently, and that was probably because Ive couldn't be bothered to be original and Tim was off in some 3rd world country talking about watch bands.
 
itsasony said:
So youre not loyal to any products or brands? Beer, wine, booze, cars, trucks, golf clubs, game consoles, shoes, sports teams, guns? Really? Nothing ? must be an exciting life. Theres too much drama on this forum.

Apple doesnt pre announce new product until they are about to start shipping, so this is no surprise and not worth all this sad drama.
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Why would you plead allegiance to a CORPORATION? They dont care about you at all. You're just a dollar sign to them.
 
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sound said:
good color reproduction without calibration fuss, looks good on the desktop (yes I care), power the MBP!
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The display can't be calibrated in any meaningful way. You can obtain a reasonable profile and examine how closely that profile says it can reproduce certain colors, but that is the extent of it. Like every other display in existence, it drifts over time. You can't get away from this, and it has no built in tools to compensate in any manner. It doesn't mean that it's bad or anything. LCD displays of that generation are far more stable than those released in the early to mid 2000s, which is where I suspect you get the impression of good color without calibration fuss. If you needed something or critical work, I wouldn't suggest this. Even the imac would be a better choice due to lower reflectivity. The thunderbolt display is still stuck with the older coating.
 
xSinghx said:
No it's not. You're just annoying. It's called the 2013 Mac Pro - I described it as such - end of story.
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It is perfectly fine pointing out the the current Mac Pro is 2.5 years old. It is also perfectly fine pointing out that a new Mac Pro released six months ago would not be very different. Because it gives context as to how much we are missing compared to a situation in which a new Mac Pro had been released.
 
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