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It's a good thing you didn't name Bloomberg in your headline: if you had, I wouldn't have seen it because of the filter I put in place a while back to shield myself from their unsubstantiated hyperbole.

Looking at the specs, its brightness is just 200 nits. Despite the impressive contrast delivered by its VA panel, it can't do much with HDR if that's all the brightness it can manage. I'd be interested in a much higher spec monitor with all these bells and whisles but not, I'm afraid, in this offering.

Always great to read your thoughts, Daniel. But the tldr; is simply to apply Betteridge's Law of Headlines:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines

You're almost selling the A7 short by not explicitly mentioning that, when it duly shipped — on time — its performance trounced the competitors that the naysayers had been boosting, particularly in single-core and browsing performance, where it opened up a lead that Apple holds to this day. Multicore, with just two cores, and graphics beat pretty much all-comers at release, holding that crown for a good year. See, for example, https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/09/review-with-the-iphone-5s-apple-lays-groundwork-for-a-brighter-future/3/ for comparative performance at release, and https://www.anandtech.com/show/9102/the-htc-one-m9-review-part-1/5 a year and a half later, when Android devices were finally catching up — although, by that time, the (larger!) target was the iPhone 6, not the 5S.

My guess is that Apple is shying away from the copyright issues: they got burned once for copying the Swiss Railway Clock (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_railway_clock), and don't want to be led there again by third parties.