For Steve Jobs, this supposed Apple project made no sense!
The proposal of a Mac with a touchscreen never pleased Steve Jobs. Moreover, he had two very clear reasons for opposing it. One thought of the device and the other of the user. And he summed them up in two sentences “touch surfaces don’t want to be vertical” there “our fingers weren’t designed for that.”
Well, time has passed and maybe Apple thinks it’s time to start a new legacy and make the fear of one of the founders of Apple come true. After a few months ago, analyst Mark Gurman confirmed, according to inside sources, that Apple is developing a Mac with a touchscreen, and even claims that **the first Mac with a touchscreen could arrive in 2025** . But, how much do we know about the project.
Sorry Steve
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According to Gurman’s report, Apple engineers are actively working on the development of a portable Mac display with an OLED display, similar to MacBook Pro, including trackpad and keyboard. Of course, its big novelty will be to include a screen that supports touch input like an iPhone or iPad.
At the software level, it would be no different from what we know today, and I would use macOS because Apple is not interested in Apple combining iPadOS and macOS at this time.
Jobs has allies
Despite Gurman’s credible track record as a credible Apple analyst, this time around his predictions not only fall far short of Jobs’ thinking, but Jobs’s as well. recent statements by senior company executives in this regard.
In 2020, Apple’s head of software engineering, Craig Federighisaid the ergonomics of the Mac require the hands to rest on a surface and said that “raising your arm to touch a screen” is “fatigue”assuming he wasn’t interested in a change in that regard.
Later in 2020 Federighi said that a touch interface was not considered for the Mac and that Apple had no secret plan to change how the Mac works.
In 2021, Apple’s head of hardware engineering, John Ternus said the best touchscreen computer is an iPad, with the Mac “fully optimized for indirect input”** instead of touch. “We didn’t really feel any reason to change that.”
Although Gurman’s report was met with skepticism, it’s not the first time this possibility has been shared. In 2020, sources related to the world of technology echoed this possibility, generating negative reactions in this regard.
So far, Apple has never shown that it wants to compete in the niche where HP, Lenovo, Dell, Asus, Microsoft, Google and Samsung have their own offerings. And in fact, with products like the iPad Pro and its Magic Keyboards, that doesn’t seem to make much sense.
