Chris Hannah

A Hill to Die On

Matt Birchler:

Today the hill some seem to be willing to die on is that the Mac will never get a touch screen.“It sucks on Windows, Apple wouldn’t do that. They’ve said no for 10 years, why do you expect them to change?”Optionally, bounce back to the top of this post if you’re not sure where I’m going here. 😋This year Apple added a mouse cursor to the iPad, something a few years ago would have been brushed off as “a Mac thing that didn’t belong on a touch-based OS.” Yet here we are. If you can find a single person who thinks the iPad is worse off for adding a cursor, I’d be very impressed. Apple didn’t just glom the Mac cursor onto the iPad and call it a day, they updated iPadOS in ways that made it work wonderfully.

This is a great piece by Matt, and I think he’s managed to convince me about touch screens eventually coming to Macs.

I think I was biased by the touch implementation in Windows, which I don’t think is particularly impressive, and also the difference between macOS and iOS where Apple do support touch.

But Apple adding a touch screen wouldn’t be just that. There would be a story behind it. And I for one, am intrigued to see what that story will be.

#Mac

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