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| Report: Apple plans MacBooks with touch screens |
After years of rejection and opposition, Apple is working on a new version of its touchscreen MacBook, according to a new report from Bloomberg News.
It is said that Apple is actively working on the project, which may be part of the MacBook Pro lineup in 2025, when the company will also switch from (LCD) screens to (OLED) screens for 14- and 16-inch models.
The Bloomberg report comes hours after the release of another report that Apple is developing its own screens (MicroLED) for use in devices such as the iPhone and Apple Watch. The report did not mention the design of the Mac computer screen.
It should be noted that over the past few years, Apple executives have stuck to their position that the MacBook does not need a touch screen, and instead urged users to try the iPad tablet if they wanted a touch screen computer.
To add "touch" to Mac computers, Apple has included the Touch Bar at the top of the keyboard, but the bar doesn't give users the same control options as the touch screen.
It should be noted that in 2010, the late Steve Jobs said about touch screens on laptops that they were “boring,” he said at the time: “We tested a lot on this topic, and it turns out that touch doesn't work — surfaces I don't want to Being vertical, they are great for presentations, but after a while (if you use them to touch) they get tired and your arms tend to fall off after a long time. Unusable!"
However, touchscreen computer technology has evolved steadily since then, and Apple itself has introduced things that make the experience easier, such as the Apple Pencil, one of the product ideas Jobs hated.
As a result, many leading companies in the personal computer industry have presented successful products that prove the feasibility of using touch screens in computers, such as Microsoft Surface computers, Acer, Dell and Asus, and Samsung recently introduced the Yoga Book 9i computer, which represents the peculiarity of its design. It contains two touch screens instead of one, and they are also of type (OLED).
Bloomberg attributes Apple's refusal to release a touchscreen computer over the years to a desire not to lose sales of its iPad; Especially after somehow improving its ability to deliver a laptop-like experience, including providing a PC processor, an additional keyboard, and adding some desktop features to the system's operating system (iPad OS).
So, if Apple continues to release touchscreen computers, it needs to maintain some kind of distinction between tablets and computers.