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there are two types of people in this world those who have no problem touching

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a computer screen and those who cannot tolerate it at all

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i believe that fingers should stay down on keyboards but

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sometimes you don't know until you try

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hmm for over a decade with the launch of the

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macbook air apple has resolutely refused to add a touchscreen

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to the mac it's not in an optimal position you don't feel comfortable

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the best way to deliver multi-touch in the notebook is through the trackpad

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but in this office that attitude is deeply confusing among the many Windows

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pc users who have touch screens they say a touch screen is useful

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essential even and that mac users have no idea

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what they're missing well to find out

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we're going to build a macbook pro with a touchscreen

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and here it is

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it can do everything your touch screen Windows laptop can do

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you can open apps close apps

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zoom scroll move the text input cursor

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and even swipe between desktops how neat

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there are drawbacks though um the laptop doesn't close anymore

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eliminating some of its portability it's much heavier

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which puts a lot of weight on the screen hinge so it can't hold it up

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at certain angles and this cable is really annoying

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these are things that wouldn't be a problem on a proper touch macbook

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but nevertheless having this 300 espresso screen taped onto the computer

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has fooled me into thinking it was the actual screen green tape

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notwithstanding after using this for a while

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i have to say that i rarely reached up to use it

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and i think i know why

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the arguments for a touch screen on a laptop seem to circle around

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convenience it's useful in specific postures like

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standing or walking or squatting or sitting on the couch

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these positions can naturally encourage you to hold your laptop in a way that

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places your fingers closer to the screen than the trackpad making it so much more

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convenient to navigate around here's the deal apple has a device for

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these cases and positions with software explicitly designed from the

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ground up for touch the ipad which leads me to an argument

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that needs to be made and it's one i think apple's been trying to articulate

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the finger is a blunt instrument fat and round

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the pointing device a mouse or trackpad is a precise instrument

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you can see it on the screen how the pointer tapers to a pixel thin point

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and pixels are very small now what works well with a mouse doesn't work well with

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a finger and what works well with the finger obviates a mouse so if you design a

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device with an interface for touch it needs to have big

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simplified ui elements while being light and easy to hold

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like an ipad or an iphone that form factor

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is in fact limiting but by remaining focused it's also liberating

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now i am aware of the addition of mouse and trackpad support on ipad os but

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i think people are a little confused about it because i'm quite certain

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it was purely for the magic keyboard apple believes reaching up

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from a keyboard to manipulate a screen is so inconvenient that they were

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willing to make the ipad more laptop-like just to solve it it

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wasn't a convergence of these platforms it was a solution to

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an ergonomic problem brought upon by a keyboard accessory and

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look at the pointer when using that trackpad on the ipad it's round and blunt like

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your finger only transforming when it gets close to something it can manipulate

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it's abundantly clear that the ipad will always be a touch first device

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and so it should remain that the mac be a pointer first device

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remember Windows 8 microsoft meekly and foolishly thought they could force the

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industry towards touch with their start screen interface but nobody fully committed to it not

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even them even their touch first ARM-based surface rt still had a mousy

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desktop mode quite simply because the office team didn't even bother to make a touch

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version of their productivity suite for it that took over two years and by that

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time microsoft returned to a mouse-centric form with Windows 10. oh

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and did you know that Windows 10 still has a tablet mode and that microsoft

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office has a touch mode bet you didn't and i bet you'll never use them either because we all know how

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Windows works and changing those basic concepts isn't worth the effort of learning them

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but let's imagine that apple thought integrating touch was worth doing

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well you can bet that it would be done in a way that would be very exciting and

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worth the effort of learning because let's not forget how beloved and revolutionary the experience on the ipad

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was the release of big sur actually got a lot of people speculating that apple was

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preparing macOS for the touchscreen there's the additional spacing between

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items and menus and the friendly touchability of the new control center

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but i think apple would have to go further because touch interfaces are

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difficult to use when your ARM is suspended in midair the dock

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would have to be placed on either side of the screen so you can hold your hand on the side and stabilize it yes you can

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move the dock there now but what kind of monster really does that

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and even compared to the way things are on big sur i still think buttons would need to be

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20 to 30 to 50 larger or maybe apple could do

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something really unusual and let us swipe pinch and do all the multi-touch

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gestures on the screen but not tap this would allow the os to

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remain dense and the mouse remain useful while still offering the magical

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convenient and collaborative character of natural interfaces

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the reason i'm working so hard to imagine the possibilities of touch

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is because after using this macbook for a couple of weeks as well as a dell xps

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two in one i can tell you that i seldom reached up and touched the screen

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a scroll here tap there maybe that was about it and

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again maybe that's because this os isn't made for touch

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if it didn't take me two taps to close an app in full screen mode

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perhaps taps would be more inviting as it is i basically

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only used it when my hand was near an already exposed button or scrolling

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opportunity but when i'm sitting at a desk writing

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that rarely happens and when i'm sitting on a couch lampen

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i'll use an ipad if apple releases their next macbook

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with a touchscreen option everything would be fine but i still

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wouldn't understand it and i definitely wouldn't select it it would have to be implemented like

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mouse support on ipad convenient sure but inessential and to me that convenience

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is not worth the fingerprints on the screen

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thanks for touching on this Mac Address i've heard all the arguments

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for adding a touch screen on the mac comment below what your thoughts on this

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whole touchscreen conversation is i'm curious if i really am the minority here

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hi i'm a mac and i'm a pc what you got there piece

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of a touch screen before yes belongs on an ipad

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what's this it looks really dumb yeah