Why was Apple late in producing a “Mac” with a touch screen?

The company’s computer design still depends on the mouse and keyboard.

Apple is one of the companies that has changed the market for phones and devices significantly with its various products. Through its smartphones, tablets, and desktops, it has been able to provide new options for users and also create new markets such as smartwatches and car systems through which it seeks to integrate smartphones with the cars that are supposed to enter the market in the coming years.

However, an important question arises for those interested and users: why does Apple ignore intuitive services that have become a traditional thing for modern devices, such as the touch screen in some of its devices?

Mac without a touch screen

Apple has not yet launched a “Mac” device with a touch screen, and it is noted that the company is now working greatly to support the “Mac” devices and offer them different options. For example, “Mac” users can use applications for “iPad” devices. With ease, it provided them with a large library of applications, and any developer who has an application on “iPhone” and “iPad” devices can develop the application to reach users of “Mac” devices with ease.

The strange thing is that iPads work with the M1 processor, which is the same processor used on Mac computers, and this means that the company is able in one way or another to modify iPads to release a copy of them for Mac, and if you look at the internal parts of the MacBook Air The new device announced by “Apple” previously finds that 80 percent of the device is similar to the other, and this means that there is no problem in terms of parts.

In the same context, the question was directed to an Apple employee interested in development, and his response was that the company “seeks to provide a different experience for users of” iPad and “Mac” devices, and is currently seeking to communicate with developers and provide all applications on the two different platforms, as it wants to All applications are compatible with “Mac” devices and “iPad” devices and provide a different experience for users on all platforms, and “Mac” remains a computer for practical uses, while “iPad” is a device that serves users in all different fields.

The closest reason.

The most important reason, in my opinion, is that the interface on the Mac system is designed for compatibility with the mouse and keyboard, and it is not compatible with touch, so the system icons are very small and not compatible with touch, and they need to be completely modified to be compatible with this feature on different devices, so Apple has not offered this feature to users until now.

Therefore, it is expected that the process of releasing a “Mac” device with a touch screen will take some time until the company updates the system and changes the icons to be compatible with the features of touch, which I expect that the company does not prefer at the present time, but is currently trying to support “iPad” devices to be the future. On which users depend.