The integration of touch screens in laptops had a great boom years ago, but Apple has always been against this trend and assured that he wasn’t going to adopt them on his MacBooks. It is not the first time that the apple company says no to something, but it would not be the first time that in the end he ends up retracting in his own way.
According to new information shared by Bloomberg, Apple is not only considering launching new touchscreen MacBooks, but also You already have a group of engineers working on this project. This information is not confirmed, but another source says that the first MacBook with a touch screen and touch gesture support would arrive in 2025, and that it would be part of one of the most important updates to Apple’s MacBook Pro series.
For Steve Jobs the integration of touch screens in a laptop was a bad idea because of a simple matter of ergonomics. In his opinion, this type of screens they were uncomfortable when attached to a laptop, and they didn’t provide enough value to the user to justify that inconvenience. Tim Cook was also against integrating touch screens into a MacBook, and Craig Federighi is another of Apple’s great figures who has no interest in such integration.
The fact is that, despite the fact that Steve Jobs was partly right, the adoption of a touch screen in a laptop also offers interesting value, and allowed the creation of much more versatile equipment with greater possibilities of use, which They were differentiated around two big names: convertible and two in one.
In the end, bringing touch screens to MacBooks would be a good idea for Apple, since it would allow it to shape a major renovation without much effortand could launch a huge marketing campaign focused on the differential value of this type of screen that would be enough to encourage more than one to update their equipment.
