According to information from Bloomberg, Apple is working on MacBook Pro OLED… with a touch screen. It would be a first for the group and a radical enough shift in approach to cause a lot of perspective ink to flow.
« ergonomically awful This is what inspired Steve Jobs with the idea of a touchscreen Mac, and yet it could be that by 2025 Apple will change its tune on this issue. According to the very knowledgeable Mark Gurman, the Apple brand would be working to add an OLED touchscreen to future MacBook Pros expected within two years.
In detail, the journalist fromBloombergHe explains that Apple engineers are currently working “actively” on this project, enough to suggest that the firm is seriously thinking about it. The introduction of a MacBook Pro with an OLED display would be a first for Apple, but also a real game changer for the brand, which has always preferred to promote its iPad to users looking for a tactile experience.
Until now, Apple has also always feared that such a change to its Macs would lead to reduced sales of iPads and, in particular, a diminished appeal of the Air and Pro models.
Steve Jobs would disapprove
Faced with the increasingly common installation of touch screens on competing laptops, Apple would therefore change its position. However, a change that could only materialize after an even more extensive overhaul of macOS, which currently seems ill-suited for the use of touch screens (especially with regard to the Finder). Clearly, releasing a touchscreen Mac would be a big project for Apple, both in terms of hardware and software.
This project, if materialized, would go against the position of Steve Jobs in this area. Died in 2011, the co-founder and former head of Apple had always been strongly opposed to adding a touch screen to the Mac, arguing, for example, that “it does not work». «Touch surfaces do not want to be vertical. After a long time of use, your arm wants to fall to the ground“, he assured in 2010. A position that Tim Cook has assumed, and that he currently maintains… but perhaps not for long if we are to believe Mark Gurman.
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