![]() ![]() Sure, they'll have to learn they can't do everything through the touch on a Mac, but I had to learn I can't do everything through the keyboard on an iPad. ![]() For those who expect it, though, it'll work as expected. Their screens remain as untouched as they do today. Out of touch, out of mindįor those that don't want or need it, they never have to use it. Let people poke, swipe, and pinch the screen, if and when they really want to, the same way they can already on the trackpad.įlick up a page in Safari. Give Macs a touch screen that enables gesture navigation. I realize it's easy to write something when you're not the one who actually has to implement it, but here's the thought: What I do think could work, though, is adding a control layer. It's possible we'll eventually see a version of iOS running on MacBook-like hardware, or we'll see something that replaces both iOS and macOS on a wide range of hardware, the way OS X replaced the old Mac OS.Īnd I don't think Apple should waste engineering and design resources on retrofitting a touch layer onto macOS. The same thing any immovable object does when it encounters an irresistible force: yield. So, how could Apple reconcile its stated belief that touch is better on trackpads and bars than on screens for the Mac with the reality that user expectation is soon going to run 100% counter to that belief? Especially when we're watching or doing something together, all huddled around it. I've seen kids try to touch my MacBook screen plenty of times. I get borderline angry when my fingers have to leave my iPad Pro keyboard to hit some control I can't otherwise activate.īut I'm of that generation. Classic trackpad-and-keyboard computing is hard-wired into my brain. I've never, not once, tried to touch my MacBook screen to interact with the interface. And when they don't, there's no consideration given to ergonomics or context - they simply think the screen is broken. They expect screens to be like iPhones and iPads. They're not touch-immigrants like us older folks. What's more, the first generation of kids raised on iPad are growing up. Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26016 to the Canary Channel. This update does not include anything new and is designed to test our servicing pipeline for builds in the Canary Channel. Yet almost every Windows and Chrome laptop shipping today has a touch screen and so do many desktops. UPDATE 12/15: We are starting to roll out Cumulative Update Build 26016.1012 (KB5034402). Apple has thus far maintained, repeatedly, that touch isn't appropriate for the Mac. ![]()
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