{"id":218003,"date":"2026-02-27T05:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T10:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/apple-doesnt-need-a-touchscreen-macbook-pro-its-already-got-one\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T06:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T11:05:11","slug":"apple-doesnt-need-a-touchscreen-macbook-pro-its-already-got-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/apple-doesnt-need-a-touchscreen-macbook-pro-its-already-got-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Doesn\u2019t Need A Touchscreen MacBook Pro \u2013 It\u2019s Already Got One"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple Doesn\u2019t Need A Touchscreen MacBook Pro \u2013 It\u2019s Already Got One<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/barrycollins\/2026\/02\/27\/apple-doesnt-need-a-touchscreen-macbook-pro–its-already-got-one\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-02-27 05:20:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.forbes.com<\/a><\/p>\n

The more touch friendly aspects of macOS have gone<\/span><\/p>\n

Future via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Apple is next week preparing to launch a touchscreen MacBook Pro, if Bloomberg\u2019s Mark Gurman is correct. If true, it would be a strange and controversial decision \u2013 not least because Apple already has a device that fits that mould perfectly. Well, almost perfectly.<\/p>\n

Apple has long denied any interest in adding touchscreens to its MacBook range. In fact, it\u2019s been positively sniffy about the entire concept. <\/p>\n

As far back as 2010, Steve Jobs was dismissing the idea of touchscreen laptops as \u201cergonomically terrible,” claiming that \u201ctouch surfaces don\u2019t want to be vertical.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2012, Tim Cook also derided Microsoft\u2019s touchscreen Surface laptops, arguing that you couldn\u2019t \u201cconverge a toaster and a refrigerator.” And when Apple introduced the (since abandoned) Touch Bar on its MacBook Pro in 2016, then Apple design guru Jonny Ive said a touchscreen wasn\u2019t \u201cparticularly useful.\u201d<\/p>\n

If Apple has decided to reverse more than a decade of top-level opposition to touchscreen laptops, it\u2019s doing so at a strange time. Although macOS and iPadOS now share the same visual styling, macOS has grown less touch friendly in recent versions. <\/p>\n

For example, macOS used to have an iPadOS-like feature called Launchpad, which presented all of the installed apps on a Mac as a grid of touch-friendly icons (as pictured above), very similar to the design of the iPad\/iPhone home screen. Apple ditched Launchpad in the most recent macOS 26, replacing it with a much smaller and less finger-friendly Apps pop-up menu. <\/p>\n

Little else about the current macOS is touch optimized. As Microsoft has discovered with successive versions of Windows, an interface that is predominantly designed for mouse\/keyboard doesn\u2019t translate well to fingers being dabbed on a screen. At best it\u2019s clunky and imprecise, at worst unusable. <\/p>\n

Nor do the vast majority of Mac apps lend themselves to touch operation. Yes, developers can make…<\/p>\n

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