Flip it. If I buy a monitor why can't I plug it into any computer I want? Same thing no?
They all follow interoperability standards that have been around decades and that customers have come to expect as normal. Vendor lockin here isn't an "innovation" customers want
It's only vendor lock-in if you see this as 'yet another monitor', which it is not. Yes, it is made of mostly the same technologies, but it's neither marketed as nor specified for PC-use.
The thing is that it's not about what you think the product should be, because the product won't morph itself into your desire. Just because there are 100 variations of the same monitor out there are all behave nearly the same (And might as well be condensed into 1 version with 2 bezel color options) doesn't mean that that is all there is to it.
The ECU in your car uses the same SoC as the ECU in a truck. But that doesn't make your car a truck, or a truck your car. Just because there are technical similarities doesn't mean that therefore the products must be the same. If a manufacturer decides to focus on some form or function and simply not make other forms or other functions, that simply means that what you wanted and what the product is do not match, and therefore you should either not buy the product, or adjust your wishes. Since the latter isn't really required, not buying the product, but buying a different product instead seems to make the most sense to me.
To give perhaps are more relatable example: if you want an ultra-wide curved monitor, you'll probably not get a good experience if you buy any Apple monitor, because those are neither ultra-wide nor are they curved. Yes, monitors are monitors, but there are plenty of differentiating properties that make some options a really bad fit for you, and some other options a really good fit for you.
Trying to make yourself the center of the universe and complaining that 'they should have made what I wanted' neither helps you nor does it help interaction with other people. Pick the product that you want instead.
>The ECU in your car uses the same SoC as the ECU in a truck. But that doesn't make your car a truck, or a truck your car. Just because there are technical similarities doesn't mean that therefore the products must be the same.
This is a monitor and I want it to work as a MONITOR where is the rocket science here ?
I don't think I could see someone defending Linux exclusive monitors, then why are some people defending apple's inability to make a monitor this expensive behave as such ?
You seem to be missing the point entirely here. An SDI monitor is also a monitor, and monitor speakers are also called monitors. Semantics and market segments matter. Pretending that market placement has no effect on what a product is good for is just silly.
Pretend there is meaningful market segmentation here all you want. At the end of the day all one has to do is plug in the DP cable and it will work as a regular monitor, and this probably bypasses some of the input lag of the built in OS.
It depends on what you define as 'work'. A single still frame could be consider working, and other people might be more inclined to call 6K and 60fps to be 'working'.
Trying to dilute what a thing actually is makes no sense, especially if you're essentially then trying to boil it down to the $100 category of computer monitors for home web browsing usage.
Technically a display panel, row and column drivers, a tcon and an interface buffer is "a monitor" too. So is a CRT. And a DLP screen. But they are not the same thing and are not useful in the same scenarios.
Not sure what you're talking about. From the article I got that the monitor works without the extra features like audio and camera with a standard DP cable with USB-C connector, which is good enough for someone shopping for just a monitor.
> Trying to dilute what a thing actually is makes no sense, especially if you're essentially then trying to boil it down to the $100 category of computer monitors for home web browsing usage.
Are you saying that this is a super duper monitor that no casual should use, or that this is an all-in-one PC?
They all follow interoperability standards that have been around decades and that customers have come to expect as normal. Vendor lockin here isn't an "innovation" customers want