You are still over generalizing. Let me rephrase what you are saying. "I don't like the monitors, because they don't have the features I need. And because I find them overpriced I hereby declare them junk, and by implication I declare that anyone who finds that the monitors suit their needs should return to the village missing their village idiot."
So who died and made you Emperor of Good Value and Good Taste?
There you go with your generalizations again. Good Lord I wish I had a product to sell at the margins Apple products can demand. If you can sell your product, and sell a lot of it, at a higher price than your competition.... then I would call that successful. And I'm sure with your MBA and access to Apple's competitive data that you know exactly how many monitors they sell.
There you go again.... Do you ever consider, just once, allowing that what you are saying is opinion? Perhaps a little conjecture and educated guesses? Any product is worth what people will actually pay for it. Enough people pay for the peripherals that - it's worth what it's priced at - for those people. If you think it's overpriced, don't buy it. Terribly simple, really.
Why? Do you think the bright lights at Apple haven't thought of that? Apple sells enough monitors, for Apple's needs, just the way the are. They just don't apparently sell enough units to suit your needs. If you were a stock holder, you would actually have the right to question Apple on this decision. Even if you were a stock holder, all you are doing here is messing up a perfectly fine discussion on the speakers in the Apple displays.
I don't have any Windows computers around. The last Windows I played on was XP as a virtual machine inside OS X. And that only because my wife needed XP as a virtual machine on her MBP for work, and so I had it so I could answer the occasional question.
So it's bad having a monitor from Dell that suits everyone needs? Since it can do anything and be connected to anything? Unlike the Apple monitors?
I bet Apple doesn't sell very many of them compared to the number of computers they sell- most consumers are smarter than that.
It's a fact that Dell monitors work with all types of computers, and give you the same amount of screen real estate for less money. It's a matter of opinion whether you should spend hundreds extra for a crippled product because it has a little Apple on the front.
Serious computer users have Windows around- it's impossible to avoid. I try not to use it day to day, but I run into things that can only be done on Windows on a regular basis.
