The MacBook Pro presented a week ago continues to bring a lot of tail, and it is that just after Microsoft presented its Surface Studio with touch capabilities, Apple arrived and presented a whole MacBook Pro with many new features but without a touch screen. Suddenly a need has arisen that did not exist, now people want touch screens, although the reality seems quite different. Well it turns out Jony Ive, the famed Apple designer, has come to the fore to talk about the non-touch screen of the MacBook Pro, and why Apple did not consider these possibilities before creating it.
Jony Ive came to the fore in CNET (in the link you can read the full interview) and he answered about why there is no touch screen on the MacBook Pro:
We haven't included the touchscreen for a number of practical reasons. I really don't even want to talk much about it (laughing).
This is how Jony Ive began to dodge questions about the touch screen on the MacBook Pro, although you don't have to be an artist to do it, the reality is that macOS is not a system adapted to a touch interface. He also took advantage of the interview to talk about the intense development and engineering behind the Touch Bar, the true protagonist of the new MacBook Pro.
In addition, has told how difficult it was to bring an idea to a prototype, and from that prototype to a fully functional system like the Touch Bar. Although to be honest, the Apple designer has not wanted to explain why not turn the MacBook screen into a touch screen.
He has simply limited himself to commenting that the Touch Bar is the system that arose from the need to change the way users naturally interacted with the operating system, although it seems that it is rather a dribble to the touch screen, which on the other hand, does not make sense on the MacBook.
It's so the screen doesn't get too dirty (sarcasm)
The macBook pro is a powerful hardware in which you can install different operating systems, one of them comes standard and is optimized. This same operating system comes with the bootcamp application, which allows you to put other operating systems and make the decision at startup of which one you want to interact with.
Other systems are adapting to give touch functions, if your hardware does not allow this feature, you are losing potential customers.
There is no more blind than the one who does not want to see… ..
Without acrimony, Zorro1981 ... but do you really think that Apple is losing customers by not implementing touch screens in their laptops for those who buy Macbooks but install other operating systems other than OSX on them? Obviously not…
In 2017 many creators will go to Microsoft. Architects, designers, graphic artists, the main breeding ground for Mac is going to move to PC. Because Windows 10 is at an "acceptable" level and because Microsoft's hardware is "desirable." At Apple they have been sleeping for 3 years. And who does not want to see it is that he is blind.