lincoln500

Apple went overboard with the engineering on this - certain buyers are going to love that, and appreciate it. Every time they use it they might continue to appreciate it - they might be glad that they could afford such a nice accessory. That’s fine. I wish I had the talent and money to appreciate it in that way too. And the entire rig, too.  But I don’t. So I won’t buy one. And I won’t presuppose why someone else might.
Maybe DED’s last line is the nicest way to put it. I mean, Apple hasn’t said how much it cost for them to design, to buy the machines to machine, to produce, the scale of the lot, and all that.
I could borrow a welder and put together a steel stand of some sort, drill some holes, run bolts through it, making sure the holes are big enough to guarantee a match to the adapter bolt pattern. Use big washers. Spray paint it, without grinding the rough edges. Black is nice. Flat black for sure because flat black won’t show tool marks as much. Maybe I do grind the edges after all. Touch it up. 
Maybe the welder I borrow is a nice one, for all I know about welders (or monitor stands for that matter), or it could be crap, for the same reason. What would my result say to the world, as a testament to the welding machine? What if I actually used, irrefutably, the best welder in the world?
Maybe I’m not a bad person. I just don’t know anything about welders and not much about anything else to do with producing super high end machines. That is actually a nice enough way to say it that I could actually say it about myself. DIY. Ad Hoc. MacGyver, for dummies . It’s not a bad thing to say.
Even if I’m a blogger and I write that the welder is crap (even though, I’m spite of that, my stand turned out stellar) as if I do know all about welders. It still applies. You can’t actually be much nicer than that.