Apple may finally release a touchscreen Mac. If so, the company may have some explaining to do.
Touchscreen Macs Make Perfect Sense. Here’s Why!
Apple is playing the long game, and it may finally pay off for touch-loving Mac users with a touch-enabled MacBook Pro in 2025, according to Apple rumor miller Mark Gurman. The lack of a touch-enabled Mac is a curious conundrum. Apple has the best touchscreen technology in the world, and makes a 13-inch touchscreen computer, the iPad. Meanwhile, virtually every other computer maker has a touchscreen laptop. Why has it gone so long without a touchscreen Mac, and why are they making one now?
"I use a Mac with a touch interface a lot, and while it's not ideal, it works just fine. When my daughter used a touchscreen Chromebook as her primary computer, I found myself reaching for the screen to quickly tap an item or scroll through something, even though the laptop had a standard trackpad," writes veteran Mac user and former Macworld editor Jason Snell on his Six Colors blog.
For years, the answer to the touchscreen Mac question has been the iPad. Apple’s argument is that touch and mouse controls can’t exist in the same operating system. The Mac UI needs a precise pointer to clock those tiny icons, and the iPad UI needs giant icons and touch targets to accommodate sausage-sized human fingers.
