---
title: "Apple exits the standalone monitor business"
description: "Apple confirms it is leaving standalone monitors; MacBook Pro event used LG displays, with LG's Thunderbolt 3 5K 27-inch due in December."
canonical_url: https://www.oguzhan.co/apple-exits-standalone-monitor-business/
author: "Oğuzhan Koçaklı"
author_url: https://www.oguzhan.co/about/
date_published: 2016-10-31T16:58:52+00:00
date_modified: 2026-09-14T05:54:41+00:00
language: en
translations:
  tr: https://www.oguzhan.co/tr/apple-monitor-isini-tamamen-birakiyor/
---

# Apple exits the standalone monitor business

Apple introduced new MacBook Pros at last week’s event. One product many expected was a successor to the Thunderbolt displays Apple had already stopped making. By the end of the keynote there was no Apple-built monitor on stage. Instead Apple used monitors from partner LG.

Rumors of a 5K, 27-inch Thunderbolt 3 Apple display joined the graveyard of missed calls. Soon after, Apple’s exit from monitors was confirmed. The Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel said on Twitter that Apple told him it is out of the monitor business and will not ship a separate display again.

That leaves the field to LG. LG’s Thunderbolt 3, 5K, 27-inch monitors are expected to ship in December.