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Apple Stores Can Upgrade a Studio Display's Stand After Purchase

turbineseaplane said:
Did they "miss it"?

Or did they design it that way to increase sales of "adjustable height" models (for $400 more?)

I hate to be this cynical, but it's getting hard not to be that way towards modern Apple.
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Guess I was being a bit facetious. A simple stand from Amazon at around $24 will make up the difference OR you can pay Apple $400 ...hmm NOT!
 
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What an absolute pain that is, even a basic Sony or Philips tv years back used to have a stand that you could convert into a wall mount!

I know vesa holes are ugly but surely Apple could of made a stand to fold into a wall mount with hidden mounting holes on the bottom!

Just greed and a major hassle to the consumer…
 
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schlotz said:
Guess I was being a bit facetious. A simple stand from Amazon at around $24 will make up the difference OR you can pay Apple $400 ...hmm NOT!
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The thing is -- for many folks, a key reason to be buying the Apple monitor is for the aesthetics.
That really goes out the window with a third party random stand.

It just pisses me off that with a bog standard 60hz 5k panel that's essentially unchanged from 2014 (save for a few more nits) -- at $1600 --- they couldn't just make the adjustable height stand the default.

It's just infuriating money grab behavior..
 
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I really can’t believe this is even an issue. Best bet is to order the vesa mount version and get a nice monitor arm.

Hopefully a 3rd party company releases a stand that attaches to the vesa mount. Still can’t believe you can just order one or the other after the fact. The LG 5K can do both out of the box.
 
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I contacted Apple support representative in Japan and they said they don’t have any information (price, timeframe, etc.) regarding this matter.

Is there any way I can confirm those information? Thanks!
 
I love Apple products (M1 macbook, iphone, etc), but I'm just sick and tired of these pricing assaults on customers.

+$600 to go to 2tb from 512gb (only 1.5gb)? You don't even make that SSD yourself Apple.

$2k for a 7 year old monitor panel with a height adjustment stand?

No battery replacements in iPhones without warning errors?

Dropping the iMac 27" basically also cranked up the base prices for a 27" desktop variant by quite a lot.

M1 is incredible and build quality is great, but some of these upcharges are the biggest FU ever.
 
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hans1972 said:
The problem is that adding a VESA mount usually makes the monitor more ugly from behind or the side. It's probably the major reason why Apple doesn't do VESA by default.
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True enough but is it beyond the capabilities of a design behemoth like Apple to dream up a universal spigot of sorts that protrudes from the rear casing and couples elegantly to different attachments? I’m an engineer and I’m fairly certain I could do it. The reason they didnt is because they didn’t want to. There’s a million ways to excuse this, and most have some merit, but in the end there’s just no escaping that it‘s inefficient engineering. It’s the sort of thing that should rub any mechanically minded person up the wrong way. In my opinion anyway.
 
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I usually understand and appreciate Apples design choices, but this one is plain silly, from a users perspective to the environment. These displays will probably last for many years, decades even. What about owner three or four down the line? Or getting a new desk?
 
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Karma*Police said:
It’s really hard to believe that Apple, with all its financial and engineering resources, can’t design a beautiful, cost-effective, height adjustable and swiveling stand that comes standard on all iMacs and displays.
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They can but being a slave to shareholder growth expectations after years of phenomenal growth has inescapable negative trade-offs.

Shareholders with phenomenal earnings off AAPL can thank their portfolio for why there’s no dual-boot iOS/MacOS iPad/mac, for why iPhones are made of glass, and for things like this stand. 🙂
 
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If they can change the stand, Apple should also be able to offer a SHORTER stand that (a) does not make the monitor sit so high, and (b) does not have that ugly hole in the stand visible from the front.
 
Unregistered 4U said:
Yeah. 🙂 It’s the same thing they do with their Macs. Understanding that there’s always a bunch of folks that will not like one device or another because it doesn’t have whatever feature at whatever price, Apple just focuses on the few million people in the world that will buy and enjoy whatever device they’re making. There will be folks that think a device is too expensive, folks that think a device is the wrong color, folks that don’t like that a device can’t julienne fries, etc. Those folks by self-elimination are not the folks Apple’s making products for.

Just because someone happens to own a device with an Apple logo on it doesn’t mean that EVERYTHING that Apple makes will be for them. It just means that, at some point in the past, Apple made a product they liked. It’s very possible that, at any given time, Apple may never make another product they like.
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Well, you’re somewhat right I guess, but do not forget that Apple is in a position where they DO have to please a lot of people, because they make it difficult for other companies to do it for them.
4K isn’t a real option for macOS, so you either need a Mac with a build in screen or a 5k screen for it to scale effectively. That’s by design. Apple knows this and they made a decision without many regards for their pro.sumer customers that can’t fork up that kind of money for a display just to scale correctly.
Also, Macs in general; Apple doesn’t want to release a low cost Mac, every option right now can have very prohibitive prices for people everywhere, some folks need a Mac like others need a Windows machine but can’t afford to upgrade their systems, because Apple chooses not to offer what those people would need.
And if they do eventually upgrade, they might be plagued by issues like faulty screens, keyboards, batteries or whatever and can’t service them themselves or have access to an Apple Store or an ACSP. Apple knows all of this and makes the decisions it does. Obviously they don’t focus on many people.
Also, “few million people”? More like a hundred million that are decked with iPhones and Macs, probably iPads and other Apple stuff, too. They don’t really focus (anymore) on anything that doesn’t suit them and their needs and just presume the rest of the world will be happy with it.
 
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