Apple famously says no a thousand times for every time it says yes, and if there’s one thing the company has been saying “no” to more often than anything else, it’s a touchscreen Mac.
But some are suggesting that the new Magic Keyboard for the iPad Pro — which Apple describes as “a computer” — amounts to the company tacitly endorsing the idea of a touchscreen laptop…
After all, they argue, an iPad Pro attached to a Magic Keyboard is effectively a laptop, so if you can have a touchscreen-first device that becomes a laptop, then why not a laptop that also supports a touchscreen?
Steve Jobs was the first to reject the idea of a touchscreen Mac in 2010.
Touch surfaces don’t want to be vertical. It gives great demo, but after a short period of time you start to fatigue, and after an extended period of time your arm wants to fall off. It doesn’t work, it’s ergonomically terrible.
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