Amaya Toman It is often said in various contexts that size does not matter. But Apple was of a different opinion in many ways and cases. For example, in December 1999, when it launched the then largest LCD display in the world. In today's installment of the Apple History series, we remember together the arrival of the Apple Cinema Display.
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Unusually large
Nowadays, the dimensions of the then Cinema Display from the apple company's workshop are probably not impressive. At the time when this novelty saw the light of day, its 22" took everyone's breath away. At the time of its release, the Apple Cinema Display was the largest LCD available to mainstream consumers at the time. But that was not its only first - it was also the first wide-angle monitor from Apple. "This is the monitor we've all dreamed of for twenty years," Steve Jobs himself sang the praises of Cinema Display at the time. "Apple Cinema Display is without a doubt the largest, most advanced and most beautiful LCD display ever introduced," added.
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Flying around the world with Apple Breathtaking in every way
In addition to the size and shape, the $3 Apple Cinema Display was dazzled by its very slim design. Minimalism and slimness are typical for Apple products, but at the end of the millennium, users were still used to more robust constructions and fuller shapes, and not only for monitors. Cinema Display also stood out for its time unusual color vibrancy, which the CRT monitors of the time did not have a chance to offer. It was designed to work with the PowerMac G999 line of computers, and was aimed squarely at creative professionals in particular. But by naming this monitor, Apple also showed that it has big plans for using computers as a media and entertainment center for the home. This profiling of Apple computers also supported the launch of a website dedicated to movie trailers, which at the same time began to slowly but surely pave the way for future movie menu on iTunes.
Check out the different generations of Apple Cinema Display:
Bigger and bigger
The 22" diagonal offered by Apple Cinema Display was certainly not final for the company. Over the following years, the dimensions of not only Apple monitors continued to grow comfortably, and they confidently aimed to surpass the 30-inch mark. The Cinema Display line itself was shelved in 2016, but Apple definitely did not say goodbye to monitors. In the following years, for example, he headed into the waters of expensive, large professional monitors with his own For Display XDR or Apple Studio Display.
