New iPads are great, but longtime Apple users have always wanted to see a touchscreen Mac, something along the lines of the Microsoft Surface. Reports of such a device by Apple have barely surfaced (pun intended) in recent years, but a new patent offers some hope that it may still one day arrive.
Apple was recently granted a patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office that covers exactly this. Patent 11,320,869 is titled, “Hinged keyboard accessory having multiple installation modes for a tablet computing device” and describes a tablet accessory that fits the description of a Magic Keyboard-like device. The bulk of the patent explains how the accessory would work–how it attaches/detaches to a tablet, how it can be folded, how a stylus can be used, and more.
The patent also includes illustrations of a tablet with a macOS-like interface. The illustrations clearly show what is a macOS Finder, with a menu bar, menu bar icons, Mac-like windows, and desktop icons.
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