After the launch of iPad Pro and its ultrafast M4 chip, numerous people are watching iPadOS and speculating that how long will it take for iPads to finally operate macOS. In a different light, when will a touchscreen finally be featured the Mac?
According to Apple, the touch just doesn’t need to be added into the Mac.
The Wall Street Journal put this question to Tom Boger who is Apple marketing executive and the familiar clarification was given that Macs just aren’t touch based tools.
“We don’t see them as competing devices. We see them as complementary devices,” Tom Boger, Apple’s vice president of iPad and Mac product marketing, told me in an interview. The iPad, he said, “has always been a touch-first device” while the Mac is for “indirect manipulation”—aka using a keyboard, mouse and/or trackpad”
The suggestion seems to be like that Apple considers people should be owning both an iPad and a Mac and quit using both for the same purpose. He said too that he considers features such as Continuity make it easier than ever to switch from one device to another, and because of this reason, the buyers don’t need to select one instead of the other.
But, Apple has the history of changing its stance before so there’s always a possibility of a Mac with touchscreen to be already on the way. Amid the speculations of foldable hybrid device having a 20-inch display to be in progress, it will be intriguing to witness the software that Apple chooses for its power.