After “resisting” temptation for several years (and pressure from quite a few users), it seems that Apple has finally given in. According to the latest surprising news coming from the USA, the Cupertino giant would be working on Mac with touch display. The launch? Maybe in 2025, with MacBook Pros with OLED panels.
In Apple’s future also Macs with touchscreens
To spread the rumor was the usual Mark Gurman, now the main source on everything related to the Californian company. According to Bloomberg, Apple has formed a team that is already “actively working on the project.”
For the MacBook Pro that – probably – will start the revolution, there will be no big surprises from an aesthetic point of view: usual “laptop” design with trackpad and keyboard, but with a display that can recognize touch input, just like iPhone and iPad.
The operating system? Always macOS, at least for the first time. In fact, there would be no traces of a real union between iPadOS and macOS.
As anticipated at the beginning, Apple has always rejected the idea of a Mac equipped with a touch display, and it is for this reason that the indiscretion launched by Bloomberg has (almost) incredible. Taking a dip in the past, in 2010 the late Steve Jobs said that a touchscreen Mac would be “ergonomically terrible.” In 2012, however, Tim Cook commented negatively on the decision of rival Microsoft to combine tablets and laptops, something like “combining a toaster and a refrigerator”.
Ideas, however, can change, also because technology makes great strides year after year. A Mac with a touch display? At this point, why not?
