When Apple announce macOS Big Sur before this twelvemonth with its giving iOS - inspired icons , revamped menus , and its own variation of Control Center , I along with a lot of other folks thought for sure that Apple ’s next macOS update was pave the way for the long - awaited arrival of a touchscreen MacBook . However , according to Apple ’s Craig Federighi , who oversees the company ’s software , that ’s simply not the suit .
In a late interview with theIndependent , Federighi and Apple marketing chief Greg Joswiak shed some light on the development of macOS Big Sur and Apple ’s latterly foretell ARM - based M1 poker chip . However , among impressive claim regarding the newM1 chip’sperformance and info about the challenges of transition to a newfangled processor architecture , one thing that really stuck out was Federighi ’s reaction to conjecture about a potential signature - based MacBook .
Federighi said : “ I catch ta differentiate you when we released Big Sur , and these article part coming out say , ‘ Oh my God , see , Apple is prepare for touch ’ . I was think like , ‘ Whoa , why ? ’ We had design and evolved the look for macOS in a means that felt most well-off and natural to us , not remotely look at something about touch . ”
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Federighi then tally that while the look and design of macOS Big Sur was exalt by iOS and iPadOS , it was more an inherited connection than a measured effort to bring touch input to macOS .
“ It ’s just they all sense like the natural instantiation of the experience for that gimmick , ” he tell . “ And that ’s what you ’re seeing , not some signal of a future variety in input methods . ”
If we take Federighi at his word and take up he did n’t have his finger cross behind his back or that he was winking while he tell that , those statement incriminate that a MacBook with a touchscreen is n’t anywhere on Apple ’s skyline , which from where I ’m sitting is pretty perplexing .
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With Big Sur not only cavort what looks to be a much more touch - friendly interface and new support for iOS and iPadOS apps , proceed to divide Apple ’s computing lineup between products that support touching ( iPhones and iPads ) and those that do n’t ( Macs ) seems like a very strange line to draw in the Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin — especially when you consider that a lot of the mobile games that will be ported from iPhones to Macs were primitively make to be played on touchscreen devices .
touch screen away , another strange omission from Apple ’s new MacBooks is the deficiency of optional cellular connectivity ( either 4 G or 5 g-force ) . Now it ’s lawful that during The Great Quarantine , a laptop computer with a build - in cellular modem may not have the same charm it once did . However , it ’s still kind of wild to intend that Apple is one of the only major notebook computer manufactures that does n’t offer a single laptop computer with a 4 G or 5 G connecter . For that you ’d have to make a side - tier to an iPad or iPad Pro .
But consider the difficulty of transitioning all of its reckoner from x86 - free-base Intel processors to Apple - design silicon over the next two age , adding touch screen to MacBooks may have simply been too much to necessitate for . Maybe , hopefully , Apple can get around to it some day .
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