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OT: Mac OS "Touchscreen not the goal in Big Sur's Design"
In an interview for the Independent Craig Federighi pours a bit of cold water on the theory that Macs might be getting some sort of touchscreen support:
"I gotta tell you when we released Big Sur, and these articles started coming out saying, ‘Oh my God, look, Apple is preparing for touch’. I was thinking like, ‘Whoa, why?’
“We had designed and evolved the look for macOS in a way that felt most comfortable and natural to us, not remotely considering something about touch.
“We're living with iPads, we're living with phones, our own sense of the aesthetic – the sort of openness and airiness of the interface – the fact that these devices have large retina displays now. All of these things led us to the design for the Mac, that felt to us most comfortable, actually in no way related to touch.
“I've never felt more comfortable moving across our family of devices as a user, which I do hundreds of times a day than I do now, moving between iOS 14, iPadOS 14, and macOS Big Sur. They all just feel of a family – there's just less cognitive load to the switching process.
“It's just they all feel like the natural instantiation of the experience for that device. And that's what you're seeing not some signaling of a future change in input methods.”
I reckon they are hedging their bets though. It doesn't hurt if you make the OS generally more suitable for touchscreen bit by bit...
I'm quite happy for Macs to remain touchscreen free to be honest, although I think some kind of Micrsoft Surface Pro-Style 27"-ish Mac with pen support would be awesome. I don't think they'll make it though.
A big-arse iPad would probably be a better in any case.
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I've worked with a Windows Dell laptop with touch screen and even though Windows programs are far less optimized for touch, after a short while using the touch screen felt quite natural.
The only understandable reason for not adding touch screens to Macbooks is: They want your iPad cash!!
yeah, and a lot of the new features added to Logic in 10.5 also. That could also mean they're adding those features to an iOS app. Or it could just be to make things look similar which is what Apple are saying.
I must admit I was always dubious about them making any Macs touchscreen until they added the ability for Macs to run iOS apps on the Apple-Silicon Macs. That made me wonder, and coupled with the look of Big Sur and Logic, it seemed possible at least.
The more I think about it though, the less I want them to mess with the Mac. As much as I enjoy my iPad, I am and always have been Mac first.
If they aren't aiming for touchscreen, can I get my compact menubar icons back in Big Sur? I already had to use Bartender to manage them and now Apple decided they needed to practice social distancing.
I just want iPad to become viable as an only computer. It's dumb little things like not being able to manage presets/IRs or update my Line 6 Helix that make me keep a "computer" around. And it's nice we can use external drives, but it's be even nicer if we could format, partition, an even do local backups too. It's inching closer, but it needs to take a big leap. I'm kinda thinking about getting a new Mac Mini for those kinds of things (and Logic Pro) and continuing to use the iPad Pro as my primary machine.
I help my daughter with HW on her Chromebook she got from school.
I always forget that it has Touch input.
It seems to be hardwired in my brain to never touch the laptop screen.