Apple’s upcoming high-end MacBook update is poised to introduce a major leap forward with a touch-enabled OLED display, Mark Gurman reports for Bloomberg News, marking Apple’s first touchscreen MacBook and its debut of OLED tech in the lineup (following the iPad Pro’s adoption). Mark Gurman for Bloomberg News:
We’re perfectly fine with using mice and trackpads, so we’ll continue to keep our Mac displays free of greasy fingerprints, even if we end up with touchscreen Macs. Who really wants to smear their fingers all over their MacBook Pro’s display? Touch surfaces don’t want to be vertical. After an extended period of time, your arm wants to fall off. – Steve Jobs For many years, every MacBook Pro has offered a built-in multi-touch-capable Force Touch trackpad. Does it make more sense to be smearing your fingers around on your notebook’s screen or on a spacious trackpad that’s designed specifically and solely to be touched? … The iPhone’s screen has to be touched; that’s all it has available. A MacBook’s screen does not have to be touched in order to offer Multi-Touch. — MacDailyNews, March 26, 2009 I think anything can be forced to converge. The problem is that products are about tradeoffs, and you begin to make tradeoffs to the point where what you have left at the end of the day doesn’t please anyone. You can converge a toaster and a refrigerator, but those things are probably not going to be pleasing to the user. – Apple CEO Tim Cook, remarking on the idea of a converged Mac and iPad, April 25, 2012 We really feel that the ergonomics of using a Mac are that your hands are rested on a surface, and that lifting your arm up to poke a screen is a pretty fatiguing thing to do. I don’t think we’ve looked at any of the other guys to date and said, how fast can we get there? — Apple SVP Craig Federighi, June 5, 2018 [Y]ou get this in-between thing, and in-between things are never as good as the individual things themselves. We believe the best personal computer is a Mac, and we want to keep going down that path. And we think the best tablet computing device is an iPad, and we’ll go down that path. iPad benefits because we assume that you need to be able to do most everything with touch, and we don’t have to trade off on that experience. Mac assumes you want to do most everything with a keyboard and mouse input. We don’t have to trade off on that path. You can look at some of the other products that will try to go halfway between the two. They end up just compromising experiences. That’s not good. – Apple SVP Phil Schiller, November 13, 2019 Support MacDailyNews at no extra cost to you by using this link to shop at Amazon. The post Apple’s forthcoming ‘MacBook Ultra’ to feature a multi-touch OLED display appeared first on MacDailyNews. You're currently a free subscriber to MacDailyNews. For the full experience, upgrade your subscription.
|
Monday, March 9, 2026
Apple’s forthcoming ‘MacBook Ultra’ to feature a multi-touch OLED display
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
-
Apple TV+ has signed a new multi-year, first-look feature film deal with The North Road Company’s Chernin Entertainment, the flagship… ͏ ...
-
Substack is covering the cost of your first paid month of MacDailyNews by MacDailyNews. ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ...
-
Apple, aiming push more urgently into the smart home market, is said to be nearing the launch of a new product category: a wall-mounted disp...
No comments:
Post a Comment