A new patent describing the use of applications across multiple screens, such as iPhone and MacBook Pro, suggests that Apple hasn’t completely eliminated the possibility of a touchscreen MacBook Pro.
Despite Apple continually saying it won’t bring touchscreens to the Mac, a new patent includes one description that explicitly refers to touchscreen laptops. It is most likely an example of a patent attempting to cover every possibility, but the description is clear and specific.
Referring to drawings included in US Patent No 20200019367, “Cross Device Interactions,” Apple labels a smartphone as “electronic device 5004.” A laptop computer’s display is “electronic device 5012,” and the patent details combinations of the two.
“In some embodiments, display 5012 is also a touch-sensitive display,” it says. “In one or more of such embodiments, the user optionally performs a variety of finger inputs over display 5012 to enter user inputs via display 5012.”
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