Apple is trolling us on prices?

Haven't the stand been debated to death by now? It seems like the general opinion is that they should just have made it a $5999 monitor, including the stand, but knocked $1000 of the price is you didn't want the stand.

What is the point of this kind of article? Don&#x27;t want to pay 400,- for a set of premium wheels? Then don&#x27;t buy them and be done with it.<p>I mean, some people pay that for a pair of jeans. I think that is BS, so I don&#x27;t buy such jeans. Problem solved. And I didn&#x27;t even go around berating jeans companies for selling expensive jeans :o

$59,945.00 for a fully loaded desktop PC with monitor sure does feel like this is an elaborate troll job.<p>On the other hand, if they are in a position to command that sort of dosh for it, why not?<p>With all the cash they have, I&#x27;d to see some innovation in technology versus a weird chassis design and adding zeros to price tags, though.

The huge issue is: what are competitors doing?<p>How can it be that in 2019 I can&#x27;t have another trackpad which is comparable in quality to a 2009 Macbook Pro trackpad?<p>How can it be that Windows 10, while slightly better than Windows 7 and 8, is still a terrible mess with regards to a ton of things (examples: hidpi, nonsensical settings organization, drivers requiring manual updates)?<p>I won&#x27;t start talking about Linux desktop, because, IMHO, that&#x27;s the NCAA of desktops. Not the same league as Windows and Mac.<p>Apple can put an incredible price tag on anything because other vendors are simply doing a terrible job just at coping.

It&#x27;s the same approach that luxury car makers take, where the normal set of options could buy you a budget car.<p>The people who are going to buy this are a self-selecting group who have the money, want &#x27;the best&#x27; performance and want it from Apple.<p>Yes, you could buy a third party monitor stand or wheels - but you&#x27;re only saving a small percentage of the price and would have to look at your machine as being &#x27;imperfect&#x27;. So you grit your teeth and pay.<p>The people who wouldn&#x27;t pay, have already built themselves some fugly hackintosh.

If you compare it to other server systems, it is pretty typical. I remember talking to Cisco about buying some lug nuts for our rack and they quoted me a price that was one-hundred times more than you could easily buy them for from a local supplier.

Instead of prices, I think is storage and memory (of base configs for desktops&#x2F;laptops) 128GB&#x2F;256SSD&#x2F;8GB is too low IMHO.