Why MacBooks Don’t Have Touchscreens 👉💻
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Apple has resisted adding touchscreens to its laptops, even as they become staples in other devices. Here’s why, and when that could change.
00:00. Touchscreens are (almost) everywhere
01:37 Avoiding redundancy
03:00 Touchscreen Mac prototypes
03:59 Death of the Touch Bar
04:53 Customized touchscreen Macs
05:21 Why Windows laptops have touchscreens
07:22 Future generations
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They should have kept both touch bar and fn keys
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As the price of the iPad Pro has increased over the past few years, I can’t afford to have both. My iPad Pro 2017 will hopefully serve me well in the years to come.
Apple killed off the touchbar in 2021? Then why can I still buy a 13″ Macbook Pro today with a touchbar on it? Obviously they didn’t kill it off. They just didn’t put it on the 14″ and 16″ Macbook Pros.
As a heavy computer user who has a couple of laptops with touchscreens, I can tell you that for my workflow a touchscreen just isn’t that useful. Reaching up to touch the screen doesn’t make a whole lot of sense when the keyboard and trackpad do the same thing and are closer.
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I don’t think the rationale that Windows had to make their laptops touchscreen to compete is correct. They have most of the PC market.
I do think Apple will eventually add a touchscreen to the Mac because of market pressure from younger buyers and as a way to upsell newer Macs in the future when Apple runs out of noticeable changes they can give to the product line. However, I personally wouldn’t use the touchscreen on a Mac, even if it had one. I had Windows touchscreen laptops and an iPad with the Magic Keyboard case before. While I did use the touchscreens on those devices while in laptop mode, the main reasons why I do is because of UI deficiencies when using only a keyboard and mouse. However, the Mac works so smoothly with just the keyboard and mouse alone already. So adding a touchscreen wouldn’t add much besides my filthy fingerprints on my screen.
Wow Abrar covered this piece amazingly 🤩🫠
Apple wants you to buy an iPad if you wanna touch! That’s it nothing more nothing less
I had a touch screen laptop but hardly used the feature. I went on to a MacBook and didn’t feel I missed the touch screen. I use a iPad for most of my leisure work. For my serious stuff I use a laptop. I find the Touch Bar convenient even though others despise it. It works well for me.
I owned a Dell XPS laptop with a touchscreen for 3 years and the touchscreen was pretty useless. I also lament the way that Windows has had to change their UI so that it works with both touch and keyboard/mouse input. It’s just a compromise all around and I kind of agree with Craig that you compromise some of the design and functionality of the UI when you try to mash two different product segments together. I don’t think it’s required and I don’t think that we should be wasting our valuable resources on things like this just because “I want it :’(“
I Prefer Macbooks doesn’t have a touchscreen. Cuz the screen is too fragile 🤣
I have a touchscreen windows laptop, and I rarely use the touchscreen feature. The screen also gets smudgy after awhile.
Because iPad.
Why doesn’t max book have a place for cellular?
I don’t need a touchscreen Mac. What I do need is an iPad Pro that dual boots into iPadOs and MacOs
Omg. I would love a touchscreen on my MacBook. Wouldn’t feel quite so stupid when I touch it after using my iPad.
Now that they’ve upgraded the iPads to M1’s and now the M2, they need to integrate the iPad with the MacBook. They’ll sell twice the number of iPads or they can make the MacBook more tablet like by being able to get the keyboard out of the way. There shouldn’t be a need for both to be honest. The different OS’s is really the only reason.
Simple. Apple doesn’t want to create internal competition with its iPad market. Profit. It always comes down to profit
Apple’s 2016 — 2019 iteration of products indicated to this user that hubris had at last overtaken utility. At least as far as laptops and phones. By 2019 Windows and Android manufacturers were offering hardware and software that were both functional and cutting edge, whereas Apple’s products were emphasizing form over function. One thinks of laptops so thin they couldn’t adequately cool themselves and low travel keyboards that were too haute to function properly. The iPhone 8 still rocked a 2007-era home button and the Touchbar? G‑i-m-m-i-c-k‑y. Though clearly some people like it. Anyway, in this same time period Samsung was releasing its Note lineup with gorgeous Infinity OLED displays and stylus-enabled screens w/o that obtrusive notch & Windows/Linux 2‑in‑1 foldables were taking laptops to another level.
With the arrival of the M1 & M2 chips, Apple seems back on point but it still lags in hardware evolution & too proud to admit it’s latest iOS drop has more to do with Android’s functional aesthetic (wall papers/multi-tasking) than anything Cupertino dreampt up. Not hating on Apple here. In fact, quite the opposite. Would love to see Apple release something like a Note phone with a stylus, notch/pill-free display, and the sort of multi-tasking ability the Note phones are known for, but with the stability, computational power, and polish Apple’s products have traditionally engendered. This will probably come to pass but only after several more years of Android and Windows’ products and profits proving to Apple that the time has come to… think different.
I don’t know why they keep bringing this guy as an expert !!! It really baffles me 😂
No touch is needed. I like my mechanical keyboard and mouse. I have a dell that has a touch screen, never used it; it’s just putting fingerprints on my screen.
Of course, samshít and crapple loves to fool people by milking them money with behind tech. They’re just good at ads
apple doesn’t have touch on mac od because they don’t like the idea of compromising the desktop ui to make it better for touch and vise versa For the ipad
The touchbar would’ve been a nice feature if they didn’t put it in the F key row. I agree Apple is afraid of losing their iPad demand they could build an awesome 2in1 with the ipad App Store. there will always be a need for an iPad. At all and just chicken to change.
i don’t want a MacBook with a touch screen !!!!!. i trued windows laptops with touch screens before and just like Craig said it isn’t intuitive, plus the finger prints on y Mac screen would drive me crazy, so no thanks ! Macs are great the way they are !
0:24 does it, though?
natural to reach out across / over your keypad and touch your laptop screen?
between the software interphase and the hardware design, laptops and desktops where not design for touch, thats probably why unlike smartphones and tablet computers, you can not use touch as the only means of input / interaction with laptops and desktops.
the “it’s all about money / sales” argument, especially wrt to apple, is usually just lazy and conceited.
you seem to think touchscreen on laptops are the way to go, the future, which should mean more sales. so why wouldn’t apple put touchscreens on their laptops to sell more laptops?
and do you really think touchscreen is THE distinguishing factor between laptops and tablet computers?
not the os, the form or the capabilities?
how many people do you really believe wanted /needed iPad and wouldn’t get it because their MacBook has a touchscreen?
has touchscreens on windows laptops made that much difference? are there people who needed a tablet computer but didn’t get one because their windows laptop has a touchscreen?
Alright these guys are hacks. Microsoft didn’t have a need for a touchscreen for their os. Windows is jank but not in any way that they can describe or that is fixed by a touchscreen. Its like someone saying that the problem with a car is that there is a chip in the paint when the real issue is that the head gasket tends to go after 55k miles of driving at an elevation of 5900’. You guys lack the knowledge to talk about this.
I heard the Studio Display may be touch screen. S.D. has build in memory and 64Gb hard drive. No one knows why.
The screen is definitely touchable it’s just ignoring you, no response. Just dump screen.
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Like many things, touch isn’t for everyone and whether it’s a gimmick or not is a matter of personal opinion. Many people are perfectly happy without them. That’s fine.
In my personal opinion, I love touch screen laptops even in the clamshell formfactor. Every laptop I’ve had in the past 8 years has had a touch screen and that’s a feature I find myself using quite a bit. Yes, I still use the touchpad and it’s perfectly capable of touch gestures like pinching, swiping etc. But depending on what I’m doing, I gravitate towards touch screen input. I don’t experience the discomfort or fatigue others experience reaching over the keyboard, but then again, after 8 years, I might just be used to it by now. Keeping the screen clean isn’t an issue as long as I make sure to wipe it down with a dry microfiber cloth.
That being said, I hope the laptop market doesn’t completely move towards touch screens being mainstream but rather touch screens being a feature on some models.
To each their own.
I’ve had a touchscreen laptop and never used it. Don’t see a reason to. Just depends on your use
i would prefer that laptop should be with tactile keys
I agree with Apple, you can’t just add a touchscreen, its not a good and ergonomic experience. The Surface line has good options; removable keyboard, or like the “Surface Laptop Studio” the screen can come out and move in front of the keyboard so your not reaching over it.
Because they want to sell two devices. Touch screen MacBooks would eliminate the iPad.
I would use touch screen when I play my piano. Especially in performances. Just to have my music in one little space and not have to have my music floating/flopping all over the place, and even more importantly, one tiny little touch to flip a page rather than dog-earing them and the amount of time it takes which messes with me being able to continue playing smoothly from one page to the next. I absolutely HATE the idea of having to pay for a new iPad and a new mac at the same time. Which is where I’m at presently. The mac won’t open all the way and is clunky and heavy. The iPad is lighter but I need a bit more size to see the pages. That would come with a 13 inch mac, and I would love to have the detachable screen with the mac functionality I use with my Quicken program when I need it. My piano teacher even has a plug and play pedal that she turns pages with on her iPad and uses forescore. I hate that Apple is making me spend the ungodly amount of money on 2 machines instead of one, and as a result I don’t have enough money for the little toys like the watch. Not that I’ve ever been impressed by them anyway. I’m too old for the tiny screens. So I hang onto my mac for as many years as I can and make it work for as long as I can. Gee that worked out well for them attracting my business. I’m one of those skinflints that won’t pay any more for something than I absolutely have to. But they are good machines, I will give them that. They would profit more off of people like me who have a more modest spending budget who could buy 2 machines if they were more multi-functional and more reasonably priced. It’s the difference between buying a diamond and a piece of glass. I would buy the diamond, but can only afford one tiny diamond that has to last me many years.
I’m sick of apples greedy thinking give us what we want I want to touch screen on a MacBook Pro it pisses me off to the point where I’m ready to buy from a different company other than Apple there are many things they’ve done that I am not happy with. there is a growing discontent with Apple products because it seems like they were always behind the curve on what is really going on. just for one example their iPhones they put the shut off button on the side I have hated that feature since the day they did it put it back on the top right hand corner. And give us headphone jacks again. and stop sending your upgrades to our devices that are actually downgrades every time I get an upgrade my devices function worse it’s a down grade. Also get somebody to rewrite your writing program that doesn’t have a filthy dirty mind every time I turn around that things corrupting my words and putting in vulgar crude nasty language and I’m sick of it. You have to double check everything because your AI doesn’t work worth a hoot. We’ve got kids and we can’t have them see this kind of stuff get somebody to write the program that has a clean mind that doesn’t want to put every four letter word under the sun in there.