Apple just announced a new 6k monitor. The stand for it is NOT included and will cost $1000.

This snapshot of the presentation is meme-worthy.

...People will still buy it.

$999 is nothing for Pros lel

I wish China make a knock-off very soon!

@Haxk20 "sorry m8 we need an Apple repair Genius from across the contry to verify that your broken stand is actually broken and have them replace it. Only takes around 4 weeks to get him here."

Isn’t this more for enterprise shit? I can see those render farms or big time VFX houses using it, like Method Studios. I won’t even be surprised if my boss starts getting them for our art crew, he was pretty stoked about it despite my cautious attempts on telling him we’re just a tiny company.

This must be the work of an enemy 「stand」

$999 isn't for pros, but what about $9999 and RGB?

What if they'd presented it like "the monitor will cost $6000. If you don't want the stand you get $1000 off." Many professionals buy monitors without stands to use with their existing setup.

Got this from (MKBHD)

I was watching this live and the second they announced that the stand was separate and for $1k, the whole room fell into chatter, and they rushed it back to Tim very quickly. It was funny af

@err-occured I didn't see it live but I saw the video of that moment. Painfully hilarious.

You have to buy a VESA adapter if you want to use your own stand. No no idea what that costs though.

@olback the VESA adapter was presented right before the stand at $199.

@olback you have to buy the vesa mount or you have to buy the stand. There are no 2 ways about it, you can’t mount it without either one

@KartSriv that’s the one, so funny on how they have gone:

You want this monitor, well that’s $5k, but your going to need something to stand it on, so for the privilege of being able to do so, here is a stand for $1k.

It seems Apple is copying RED’s principles and charging extra for everything. Just be thankful the the power cable and display cables aren’t proprietary like hell and they are not charging $500 per cable.

If you don’t know what I’m on about, see LinusTechTips unbox a RED camera

That stand better cook my dinner if I'm gonna pay that much!

Damn you were quicker to post it, btw did you all notice how they skip the slide when the stand came onscreen? i think it broke the sound barrier not to mention the whole crown was like:

first 3 sec: silence..
next 2 sec: wtf.. wtf.. wtf..
next 3 sec: all laughing..

Kidney?? Now they want us to sell our whole body

That's meant to be $9.99 right? They just missed the decimal point?

just drill holes in the monitor to stick a VESA on it

OH WAIT I FORGOT PEOPLE THAT BUY APPLE LIKE PROPRIETARY BULLSHIT

Ah nice a multi functional stand! You can use it to hang yourself too when you're sick of Apple shite.

Just stick it to your VESA mount with double sided tape.

@periculum just don't buy the monitor, maybe?

@Parzi was not planning to. Happy with a normal ultrawide

@periculum or hire a person to hold it while you're working 😁

There was a Hitler rant parody made on this on YouTube. Go watch it, it's amazing.

@OmerFlame https://youtube.com/watch/...

@duckWit exactly. 🤣🤣

@OmerFlame just finished watching it, that was great!

Xiaomi Mi Stand 3

@sgzadrian is will pay for this willingly. Finally, a product that has truly achieved sentience.

Total bullshit does it come with wings

If u cant afford the display, at least you can buy the stand and use it with your current display. Its a choice.

Heck, coders even spent thousands for their “chair”, where they put their butt on all the time. Even spent thousands on “sneakers”, where they put their feet in, just becoz its a “limited” edition.. $999 for a “different” stand, which differentiate you from others? Thats something people will consider.

Same like buying a cheap wrist watch, and a rolex. Both still does the same thing, it just tells time. Why do people buy the rolex? Because they want to be different..and because they can.

So if you want this $999 stand for yourself? Just get it. Fuck what others think.

@pai-shinoda true. Do what you want. We'll have to agree to disagree though on what you get out of a $999 monitor stand. A watch that expensive and a chair that expensive have arguably much more to offer in comparison than a really (overly) expensive monitor stand.