An ergonomic heresy. This is how Steve Jobs saw the touch screens of laptops when the subject was mentioned to him, justifying his interest in the iPad. I’m not sure the Apple founder is thrilled to see them coming to his MacBooks. He also would not have liked the stylus he denounced so much to end up existing under the Apple banner.
But Tim Cook is now in charge. The Apple Pencil has come true in iPad and, according to Mark Gurman of Bloombergthe MacBook Pro could make the move to a touch screen very soon.
Finally catching up with the competition
According to the specialized site, the brand’s engineers are actively working on a screen. OLED tap to introduce a dedicated MacBook Pro for 2025 before generalizing to the entire range. The Cupertino tenor would be a bit behind the competition, starting with Microsoft and its tablet-PC professional surface. And this screen would support touch and gestures, just like an iPhone or iPad.
It remains to be seen who would be behind the screen design. The Californian giant is rumored to want to design its own tiles, but micro LED, for future Apple Watch, iPhone and iPad, and thus free itself from Samsung, its main provider. Could it be the same for OLED displays or would this touchscreen then be micro-LED? One thing is certain, Apple would do anything to get its hands on the technology, beyond its usual simple internal calibration.
If Steve Jobs also didn’t want to equip his Macs with touch screens, it was to make the iPads stand out and look attractive. For a few years, Apple has been playing with the continuity between devices and this has shown on many occasions the limits of use on Mac of applications designed with the iPad touch screen in mind. Putting the two mediums on an equal footing technologically could be an additional asset in boosting the global ecosystem. And since the advent of in-house M chips, MacBooks have never done so well. It might also give them even more interest.
Source: BFM TV
