Apple Has Made the Worst Monitor
A little over a year ago, I imposed a ban on myself and promised to never talk about Apple products here on Medium again after they had a little issue with using tons of illegal child labor.
However, they’ve done something so ridiculous that I’m temporarily lifting the moratorium. If you thought moves like the removal of the iPhone headphone jack or the forced inclusion of the touch bar into higher end MacBooks were bad…you haven’t seen anything yet.
Apple products always carry a price premium. They’re luxury goods carefully disguised as innovative technology, sold with the slickest marketing on the planet. Sometimes the tech underneath the gloss is genuinely forward-thinking (as is the case with their recent M1 processor family) but other times it’s just someone else’s gear dressed up with a higher price tag and some brazen consumer unfriendliness.
Nothing better exemplifies that second stance than the new Apple Studio Display, a 27-inch 5K monitor with a starting price of $1599 (almost as much as the highest-priced iMac). Before I even get into my rant, that price is several hundred dollars above the MSRP of competing screens like this 5K model from LG…who may also be the manufacturing partner making the IPS panels inside this new Apple display.
