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Apple has finally made the standalone 27-inch display we’ve all wanted since 2014. In the process, Apple has retired Intel’s 27-inch iMac without Apple’s silicon version planned for this year. As disappointing as this may be for fans of big all-in-ones, there’s a chance it could bode well for Apple’s display ambitions – or not.

For the sake of that argument, let’s put aside the iMac 4.5K (it doesn’t come with nanotexture) and the 6K Pro Display XDR (it doesn’t come with a stand).

Four of Apple’s latest standalone displays under $6,000 include:

27″ studio display (2022) 27″ Thunderbolt display (2011) 27″ movie screen (2010) 24″ movie screen (2008)

That’s four display changes in 14 years.

Meanwhile, in the iMac realm, you can easily point to four display improvements in just a few years:

5K resolution P3 color gamut True Tone display Nano texture glass option

Apple Studio Display offers or includes each of these features, but the point is that Apple used iMac hardware versions to add new enhancements to the screen.

These changes were never added after more than a couple of years. Compare that to Apple’s standalone display upgrade rates. In eight years, Apple has greatly surpassed its independent display features with the display features in the iMac.

Simply put, Apple has been more successful in releasing new features for iMac displays than it has been for individual displays.

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So where does this take us? Here’s the question I’m considering: Will Apple update Studio Display with iterative display improvements every two years or so, or was the release of iterative display improvements driven by iMac hardware updates?

Only time will tell, but I wouldn’t consider a display model priced between the Studio Display and Pro Display XDR as satisfying the appetite for iterative display changes that iMacs have seen over the past few years.

Features like variable refresh rates and HDR support are more likely to come on a mid-range display than on a refurbished Studio Display at the same price two years from now – though I’d like to be wrong about that.

But what about the next P3 color range, True Tone, or optional Nano Texture glass? Will the features of this caliber that came with updated iMacs be available for updated studio displays in the coming years for about the same price?

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