You would think Apple, as big on design/style/"everything just working together" wouldn't have a blind spot in that "monitor for the rest of us" area. They can't possibly believe the only monitor market they have are those dying to lay down $5,000+ for the privilege.
It's silly.
They know they sell $699 Mac mini and $999-1,299 notebooks all day long. And they're okay with users pairing them with just anything off the shelf from Office Depot or Best Buy? That's an odd disconnect. Plus, Apple doing it they'll - as they've done in the past - make sure it smartly works with Macs (charging notebooks, providing handy hubs and possibly even a built-in camera, meaning Mac mini users can once again have first-party Apple webcam access again. Mini and Air owners would probably love to spend ~$800 on a display that not only looks much nicer and "the part" sitting next to their Mac, but that also provides all the things a $129 Westinghouse or other Best Buy special would never do. It would be a fuller, better experience. Just like those Cinema and Thunderbolt displays in the past were. For whatever reason, Apple made them go away.
Something that might be going on is that they're waiting to get all their stuff a) fully transitioned to AS and b) for any upcoming redesigns (rumored Mac mini and the upcoming MacBook Air rethinking) out there, so that any new display they may do for the consumer-level crowd better ties in, design-wise, with new Macs that haven't been released?
So maybe one is coming, but it'll hinge on the introduction/release of new, redesigned Macs slated for 2022.
There could be a Mac-centric media event between now and summer where this sort of stuff is released.
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