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Apple Execs Talk M1 Chip, Touchscreen Macs and More in New Interview
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You know there wouldn't be someone with a gun to your head forcing you to use it, right? And in instances where the interface was designed for touch (i.e. all the iOS apps they keep boasting about being compatible) multitouch input would make way more sense than a trackpad/mouse.
Adding touch isn't meant to remove the need for other inputs, it's should simply be there to give users the best input options for the task at hand.
If there’s to be no Touch Screen Mac, I personally would love Apple Pencil support on the Trackpad, soon.
Once Apple completes the transition, I wonder how fast MacOS and its apps will be once they truly optimize for Apple Silicon? I'm also curious if/when macOS entirely transitions to Swift, leaving Objective-C and whatever else behind? I know some low level stuff probably can't be ported, though.
If touchscreen support wasn't coming to macOS they wouldn't redesign it with bigger, more bubbly buttons and simpler looking UI. Now is very similar to iOS/iPadOS.
“All of these things led us to the design for the Mac, that felt to us most comfortable, actually in no way related to touch.”
So can we please get rid of the Touch Bar... Or make it an optional “upgrade” and see how many people are actually interested 🤦♂️
So can we please get rid of the Touch Bar... Or make it an optional “upgrade” and see how many people are actually interested 🤦♂️
They always go back their no’s. I bet by 2023 they will introduce touch on a new line of M3 Macs. Craig will say, no, it’s not an iPad, it’s just implementing touch where it really makes sense.
Everyone of us gets the chills when Hair Force One is on stage.
I thought the same thing. I remember the Cheese Grater towers with multiple CPU options and have seen the rumored mini Mac Pro design floating around. It seems like a multi-M1 machine would really scream too if they could get the program management down.
Until you've been using a tablet all day and sit down with your notebook and within 5 minutes there's fingerprints all over the screen.
No touchscreen Macs?...hahaha....I laughed more at this joke than the other one they told...hahaha
Yes for sure. Get the new Apple silicon mac
Just a fun tidbit: the first A-series chip was actually the A4 in the first-generation iPad and then later the iPhone 4 and a few other devices. There was never an A1 (except for the steak sauce), A2, or A3.
Why are you asking random strangers on the internet? You bought the thing.
I actually really like the touch bar. Great for photo editing and logic.
Why not have a touch screen, but allow the user to disable it?
I have the exact same configuration on order. In my case, I need Windows for work, so it’s either keep the order for this Intel MBP, or buy a cheaper PC now for work and keep using my 2015 MBP while I wait for the 2021 MBP redesign.
Because then you are making the user pay for hardware features they will not use...?
Ditto that to the high heavens. The compromises in the on-screen experience to ”dumbify” the interface to work with touching would result in way, way too many compromises that would negatively impact the typical expected keyboard/mouse/non-touch interface. The various nips & tucks to the OS X interface after Mavericks in order to gain a sleeker, newer, fresher, lighter interface due to some imagined importance of needing aspects of the OS X interface to more closely resemble the iPad interface has resulted in the extremely (IMHO) dumbed-down space-wasting less-efficient less-intuitive Fisher Price My-First-Computer looking interfaces we saw with Yosemite thru to Big Sur.
I’d like to keep eating my cereal in a bowl with a spoon, and my steak on a plate with a fork. Please no deep plates and sporks in my MacBook experience, thank you.
How are multitouch iPad apps going to be operated with a mouse and keyboard?
Given babies and children and growing up now, experiencing the ability to touch a screen as totally normal, I'm still convinced, despite what Apple says now, that touch screens simply have to be the future.
Not for all operations of course not. but simply there to use when you want to use them, and when it's suitable to do so.
Given babies and children and growing up now, experiencing the ability to touch a screen as totally normal, I'm still convinced, despite what Apple says now, that touch screens simply have to be the future.
Not for all operations of course not. but simply there to use when you want to use them, and when it's suitable to do so.