Of course, Apple’s future is starting to look like we never imagined. Little by little, what we thought was impossible is taking shape: future iPhones with USB-C, the end of the App Store as the only app store on iOS… and now Mark Gurman reveals something that Apple had always pretended he was wrong. make.
The lessor commented in a Bloomberg article that Apple is preparing touchscreen Mac models, and that there are several teams in Cupertino dedicated to adapting them to this experience. And this is very interesting, because several rules that Apple had imposed on itself are broken.
From Steve Jobs’ “terrible ergonomics” to a real possibility
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It was Steve Jobs himself who made it clear that we were never going to see a Mac with a touchscreen. In the tweet above, you can see his arguments, laid out in the presentation of the original iPad in 2010:
We thought about it [Mac con pantalla táctil] for years. We’ve done tons of user testing, and it doesn’t work. Touch surfaces don’t want to be vertical. Visually they are amazing, but after a while you start to get tired and after a while your arm just wants to drop off. It doesn’t work, it’s terrible from an ergonomic point of view. Touch surfaces should be horizontal, which is why we perfected multitouch trackpads on MacBook Pro.
Nothing changes things better than time. And there are reasons why a touchscreen Mac might make sense, as Gurman himself says. Sales of these computers have increased over time, offering a more lucrative business than iPads. So at Apple, they would be looking for a way to be able to adapt the screens and interfaces of the Mac, even at the risk and for fear of cannibalize iPad sales.
The first touchscreen Mac is said to be a special model of the MacBook Pro, with a 2025 release date. would be a computer with a physical keyboard like the one we have now. The panel would be OLED, although it has already been present on Macs for a year before.
After this MacBook Pro, Apple would look for a way to transfer the tactile experience to the rest of the range. This would be a huge change for Macs, as their interface would have to change a lot to provide a proper touch experience. macOS itself should scale from top to bottomalthough its engineers and designers already offer several ways to achieve this.
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