You're not touching the screen, you're touching a glass digitizer laid over the screen.
It’s all a matter of perspective. For those who grew up without touchscreens the idea of a Mac with touchscreen is repulsive. For those who grew up with iPhones, touch screens, it’s incomprehensible why the screen is not touch. I have lost count how many times i have seen my wife try to use touch screens movements on laptops. My toddler son always tries to touch the screen on MacBook Pro. It feels inevitable that touchscreens will come to mac laptops.
I think the iPad makes sense as a touchscreen device because you can lay it flat or hold it in your hands at a natural writing angle. But you can't do that with a laptop at all (unless, as you say, it folds backwards) which makes it pretty awful to reach up and interact with for any length of time.
He wasn't wrong about that. The big tell for iPhones getting too big to use one-handed was when they released that corny "reachability" feature that slides the whole display down halfway so you can reach the top.
I'm afraid that ship has sailed. MacOS has been getting sloppy seconds from the iPhone and iPad for some time now, and it only seems to be getting worse. And I don't mean from third-party app developers, but from Apple themselves: apps like Messages and System Settings and Weather are limited to basically the same sh*tty "universal" (aka lowest common denominator) layout they have on the iPad.
Agreed, for whomever has tried this on a windows notebook, it doesn't work.. First thing I disable on my work notebook. The physics don't work at all... Flipping it all the way back like you said, is the only way it could prove useful.. Still the UI isn't optimized for fingers..
I agree with this take. I can't see Apple doing a touchscreen Mac anytime soon because it virtually renders the iPad irrelevant. I love the form factor of my Surface Laptop Studio 2.
You might not want to use it, but others will. Wacom, a publicly traded company, had been selling hardware, appealing to this crowd for over 4 decades. Last fiscal year their revenue was € 610 / $ 713 million.
I would not use it for macOS. A combination with a pressure sensitive stylus in Affinity / Photoshop / etc is where this shines. Not when dragging files around or copying folders.
I've been using the pictured device (Surface Laptop Studio) for the past several years, and I'd say it's durable. I don't treat it any different than my MacBook Pro anyway, and it hasn't had any damage.
More affordable than an iPad plus Apple Pencil. It can also be detached and used as a Wacom.
He was right if we only consider one-hand use and ergonomics is your top priority. So... he was wrong, most of us just use their phone with two hands and we're fine. Using the keyboard with one hand has never been optimal ergonomics anyway.
The best selling iPhones (and among the best selling models ever) are iPhone 6 and 6 Plus followed by 6S and 6S plus. As if everybody was waiting for iPhones to catch up with other phones' size. So yours is just a personal opinion.
