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Apple Suspends Sales of LG's UltraFine 5K Monitor Over Hardware Issues (appleinsider.com)
Roger Fingas, writing for AppleInsider: Apple has temporarily stopped sales of LG's UltraFine 5K monitor, due to technical problems associated with a lack of proper shielding from wireless interference. Over the weekend, Apple retail staff were told to keep the product on display yet not sell any units if people asked, according to a Business Insider source. The site added that it heard the same from a representative at a New York Apple store. Separately, AppleInsider has confirmed the organized removal from sale of the Thunderbolt 3 display. Sources inside Apple not authorized to speak on behalf of the company indicated that retail locations are retaining demonstration displays, but not selling any stock on-hand that it may receive that may actually have the shielding fix, nor filling any pending orders until otherwise informed. Big blow to Apple, which has given up on external monitors business. But at least, it's comforting to know people who wish to purchase a new display for their MacBook or MacBook Pro have several company-approved alternatives. Oh wait, they don't.
It's actually quite responsible for them to stop selling the unit, rather than continuing to sell product that they know has a problem, which is what many companies in the past have done.
What's more comforting is that Apple don't have an "approved" display. What would be even more comforting is if they never did and if consumers didn't need such arbitrary "approvals" to plug a display into a computer.
What an absurd idea that is.
It's a blow because they decided to discontinue their own line of monitors (the "cinema" range) and instead nominate LG's display as the official successor. This monitor non-standard in a number of ways, similar to the old cinema displays, and somehow worse is better. For example, there is no OSD, all adjustments must be made from within MacOS.
Apple were clearly hoping that they could sell this monitor as the new "recommended" one, i.e. charge well over the odds for it.
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It's so impartial that you'd think msmash was an idiot who's never used a Mac in his life and doesn't know that Macs have used VGA, DVI, HDMI and DisplayPorts for over a decade now. And their keyboards and mice connect via USB or Bluetooth, just like a "PC".
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The H1B visa was designed for the best and the brightest - no one is suggesting that we turn away brilliant people.
We need more PhDs - not code monkeys and run-of-the mill sysadmins. The H1B system is being abused to flood the market with cheap imported labor.