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We’ve had touchscreen laptops for years. Can Apple make them better?
Source: The Verge · Published
Seeing the light on touchscreen laptops. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge A fridge is about to be merged with a toaster. Dogs and cats are soon to be living together. But it's not mass hysteria; Apple is expected to finally announce a touchscreen MacBook tomorrow at
Seeing the light on touchscreen laptops. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge A fridge is about to be merged with a toaster. Dogs and cats are soon to be living together.
But it's not mass hysteria; Apple is expected to finally announce a touchscreen MacBook tomorrow at its "Pro and Tell" event . A laptop with a touchscreen should be no big deal - we've had them for ages. But Apple took a hardline stance against them.
In addition to Tim Cook's infamous 2012 quote equating it to combining kitchen appliances , Steve Jobs emphatically dismissed touchscreen laptops as "ergonomically terrible" back in 2010 , saying, "Touch surfaces don't want to be vertical." The closest Apple got was the MacBook Pro Touch Bar, from 2016 t … Read the full story at The Verge.
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