Mayo, you thought you found a pretty good April Fool's joke yesterday morning, didn't you?

But it turns out it wasn't.

Oh, yeah.

April 1st, wake up, get on social media. Someone told me the studio to play XTR is now cheaper. It's like, no. Oh, never. What a great April Fool's, because they got a lot of margin to play with there. But actually, it was kind of true. uncharacteristically, Am's actually dropped the price on a product by about 12% within releasing it. Specifically, the studio display XDR without the

stand. So the one that comes with the visa mount, that configuration, is now $400 cheaper. When they

launched it in early March, they were both $3,299. Like, that was just the price, whether you got it with the stand or without the stand and got the visa mount. But they've come to their senses and realize that it doesn't cost them as much money to make a little amount than it doesn't make the entire stand. And now they reflect that in the purchase price. So you can actually save $400, which I think a lot of high-end buyers do, right? Like a lot of people who are buying Studio DisplayXDRs have their own custom desk setups, already have visa amounts, because a lot of the time they want to do like two side by sides. They have the dual visa amount thing. And I mean, if you bought two of them, you'd basically save $800, which is not insignificant amount of money. And Apple's confirmed that they're going to give refunds to everybody that already bought it at that price. If you read the press release, it's definitely written as like, it's just $3299. So it's not like the store had a pricing error and that they only caught later. I just think they had a strategy change or maybe someone asked them, like, why is it the same price and then they changed it yeah it made

zero sense that the version without a key component of the product was the same price as the version

with that key component except that the studio display non xDR has the exact same thing the studio display

non xDR the the vase amount versions the same price as the yeah the. Really? Yeah. It's been the same like that with like the 2022 and the 2026. It's the studio display, non-XDR, is $1599. Whether you get it with the tilt adjustable stand or the vase amount adapter, you can then buy the Tilton height adjustable stand for X400. Okay.

But if you get the basic stand or the Vs amount is the same price, they only charge you the $400

for the height adjustable version.

But this is definitely intended because like if you go, when you buy Steadispects,

it gives you those, you know, configuration options, you know, what stand stand do you want what glass do you want

well before april first they would put the glass as the first choice in that in that page

because it would let you pick between sand glass and nanotexture now they put the stand as the

first choice because it actually shows the lowest price you can buy the display for so like it's

very much intended it wasn't like a weird glitch but yeah i don't know what triggered them to change their mind within a month of releasing it, but it certainly makes it a bit more compelling. Yeah, so does it change your calculus at all on whether you're going to buy a studio display XDR? Uh, no. If they, if they came to their senses and put more than one port on the back of it for display input, but that might actually change my mind. Well, that's never happening. Yeah. But otherwise, listen to Plus this week where we talk more about display ideas. But yeah, if they had another port on it, I could actually consider it. But at that price point, I just can't do it. Because part of the appeal of the XDR or the Apple shoe displays is the nice stand. Like, the stand is cool, right?

And it's so smooth.

I use it in the store and you can, like, go up and down.

And you can move it with a finger and it feels perfectly balanced and stuff. But if it's only got one port, I'm going to need two monitors at my desk, one for the PC, one for the Mac. and that means I'll need visa mount configuration

so I won't be able to even use it.

It does sting slightly less

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