According to information from Bloomberg, Apple is working on OLED MacBook Pros… with a touch screen. It would be a first for the group and a change of approach radical enough to cause a lot of ink to flow in perspective.
« Ergonomically appallingis what inspired Steve Jobs with the idea of a Mac with a touchscreen, and yet it might be that by 2025 Apple changes its tune on this issue. According to the very well informed Mark Gurman, the Apple brand would indeed work to add an OLED touch screen on future MacBook Pro expected within two years.
In detail, the journalist from Bloomberg explains to us that Apple engineers are currently working “actively” on this project, enough to suggest that the firm is thinking regarding it seriously. The introduction of a MacBook Pro with an OLED screen would be a first for Apple, but also a real regarding-face for the brand, which has always preferred to promote its iPad to users who want a tactile experience.
Until now, Apple has also always feared that such a change on its Macs would lead to a reduction in iPad sales, and in particular to a decline in the attractiveness of the Air and Pro models.
Steve Jobs would disapprove
Faced with the increasingly common installation of touch screens on the laptops of the competition, Apple would therefore change its posture. A change that might only materialize, however, following an even more extensive overhaul of macOS, which currently seems poorly suited to touchscreen use (especially with regard to the Finder). Clearly, launching a touchscreen Mac would be a major project for Apple, both in terms of hardware and software.
This project, if it were indeed to materialize, would go once morest the position of Steve Jobs in this area. Deceased in 2011, the co-founder and former leader of Apple had always been very opposed to the addition of a touch screen on the Mac, arguing for example that it “do not work ». « Touch surfaces don’t 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 taken up, and for the moment maintained… but perhaps not for very long if we are to believe Mark Gurman.
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