Touchscreen Macs would be fine, with two big provisos [Comment]

Posted By TheNewsCommenter: From 9to5mac.com: “Touchscreen Macs would be fine, with two big provisos [Comment]”. Below is an excerpt from the article.

Touchscreen Macs are back in the news – though it’s unclear whether there’s actually much reason for this. The Bloomberg report didn’t say that Apple actually plans to make any, only that engineers are ‘‘actively engaged‘‘ in the project.

I mean, that much has always been true. Apple has long made touchscreen Mac prototypes, and put them through usability testing. So are we talking a dozen engineers, as has probably always been the case? Or hundreds of ’em, which would indeed be evidence that Apple has serious plans? The report doesn’t say …

We know from remarks by Steve Jobs that Apple’s work on touchscreen Macs dates back to at least 2007 or 2008.

Steve said at a 2010 MacBook Pro event that Apple “thought about this years ago” and had done “tons of user testing.” Years plural takes us back to 2008 as a minimum, and possibly very much earlier.

It turns out it doesn’t work. Touch surfaces don’t want to be vertical. It gives great demo, but after a short period of time you start to fatigue, and after an extended period of time your arm wants to fall off.

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