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The line between iPad and MacBook may become clearer this year. Bloomberg reports Which Apple is working on a touchscreen MacBook Pro with OLED The screen will be launched by the end of 2026.
It’s a product I didn’t expect to see anytime soon. Over the past 15 years, Apple executives She has it publicly He rejected the idea of putting touch screens on a MacBookSaying that it would be uncomfortable to have the operation. Steve Jobs said to a crowd of people At an Apple event, the company did “a lot of user testing” on putting touchscreens on MacBooks and decided not to because, he said, “it doesn’t work. It’s ergonomically terrible.”
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So, if Bloomberg’s reports are correct, someone at Apple must think differently now. But before we scream that this isn’t what Steve Jobs wanted, let’s not forget that Jobs said Apple conducted “tons” of user testing. It was something the company was curious about. Maybe something has changed in the past fifteen years.
In this week’s episode of Something Else, embedded above, I go through the details in the Bloomberg report on how it works. MacOS will reportedly only reveal touch menus when a finger taps the screen, helping it complement the typical point-and-click interface. This can certainly be avoided Criticisms faced by Microsoft By overhauling its operating system at the launch of Windows 8 when it moved to a hybrid interface, alienating longtime users.
This device is rumored to be earmarked for the end of the year, but Apple may have plenty of other gadgets to play with next week. Tim Cook joked The company will announce new products starting Monday. The company is A new iPhone 17e is expected to be launched, alongside updated models from the iPad and Mac lineup – Possibly up to five different products.
Apple is invitation-only Experience on Wednesday, March 4 in New York CityI’ll be there to cover everything that’s happening and will give my first impressions and full report on something else (or many things) that will interest people.
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