On June 4th, Redditor internetuser101 posted a photograph of a laptop on a stack of college textbooks with the title 'The original $1000 monitor stand.' The post received more than 2 million views, 100,000 points (91% upvoted) and 1,600 comments in two days (shown below, left). The following day, people began making jokes about the price of the stand on Reddit. The post received more than 23,000 points (19% upvoted) and 2,600 comments.Īdditionally, that day, YouTuber Simon Savitt posted a clip of the stand's announcement, which described the audience reaction as 'groans.' The post received more than 440,000 views in three days (shown below). The audience appeared to grumble and talk following the pricing announcement (shown below).įollowing the release of the stand, people on Twitter began mocking the price, which they considered too high (examples below).Īdditionally, Redditor hatramroany posted about the monitor stand in the /r/gadgets subreddit. At the end of the Mac Pro presentation, they announced the price of the stand: $999. On June 3rd, 2019, at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, the Apple technology company announced a series of new products, including an update Mac Pro computer and accompanying monitor and monitor stand. Apple, mac pro, tech, technology, computers, wwdc, worldwide developers conference, stand, choose wisely AboutĪpple Pro Stand $999 Price refers to a series of memes and jokes about the amount of money required to purchase the Apple technology company's monitor stand.

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