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Jonathan Ive on Why There Isn't a Touchscreen MacBook Pro

Posted October 31, 2016 at 2:01pm by iClarified · 16200 views
In a recent interview, Jonathan Ive talks about the new MacBook Pro and why it doesn't have a touchscreen.

Ive reveals that Apple decided it didn't want to add multitouch to the Mac "many, many years ago". Instead the company has introduced a multitouch strip that replaces the function keys at the top of your keyboard. The strip is customizable and displays contextual controls to help you get things done faster.

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You say different would be easy and fast. Is that why we’re not seeing a touchscreen-based MacBook Pro? That would have been an easy choice. Or was it something other PC makers have done and you wanted to go in a different direction?
When we were exploring multitouch many, many years ago, we were trying to understand the appropriate application and opportunities for [it]. We just didn’t feel that [the Mac] was the right place for that…. It wasn’t particularly useful or an appropriate application of multitouch.

Because?
For a bunch of practical reasons. It’s difficult to talk [laughs] without going into a lot of details that puts me starting to talk about things that we are working on. I don’t really want to talk much more about it.
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Ive also revealed that "There’s a number of designs that we explored that conceptually make sense. But then when we lived on them for a while, sort of pragmatically and day to day, [they] are sometimes less compelling. This is something [we] lived on for quite a while before we did any of the prototypes. You really notice or become aware [of] something’s value when you switch back to a more traditional keyboard."

You can read the full interview at the link below...

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