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2016-11-26, 08:04

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Originally Posted by El Gallo View Post
Obviously Apple sells the iPad Pro which has a keyboard and touchscreen but no trackpad. Perhaps that is the sticking point in their mind. I don't know.
The sticking point is that macOS was designed so strongly about a visual pointing device (originally the mouse, now the trackpad) that there wasn't even much keyboard-based UI until 10.0 — versions before OS X had neither Terminal nor even the ability to tab through buttons using the keyboard. And even then, those additions were made in such a way that they were backwards-compatible — you can still navigate the entire UI using only the mouse. Likewise, conversely, you're unlikely to ever see a mouse cursor in iOS.

So clearly, Apple culturally is very thoughtful and conservative about changing available input devices for their UI paradigms.

That's the sticking point. Nobody is arguing that it's hard to add a touch controller to the back of the MBP's screen. Nobody is arguing that it's hard to make macOS UI controls respond to touch. People are arguing whether it's easy, or whether it's good, or even useful. And looking at Windows 8 and Windows 10, that question arguably has yet to be answered.
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