Making the Mac multitouch. A bit.What if Apple didn't add a full touch interface to the Mac but simply added touch navigation?
Unlike Microsoft, Apple had a successful touch-first operating system with iOS. Unlike Google, Apple had a successful mouse-and-keyboard-first operating system with macOS. Microsoft had no choice but to spend years in the desert — that desert being Windows 8 — to make Windows into a touch-friendly-ish operating system. Google pivoted rapidly into multitouch with Android and ChromeOS. Apple, though, had to make a choice.
Mac Touch vs. iPad Type
Like Windows, Apple could have spent years of engineering and design resources grafting multitouch onto macOS, churned through several awkward release cycles, and come out the other side with a version of the operating system with targets big enough to jab a finger at.
Alternatively, Apple could spend those years and resources making iOS even better, more capable, and more encompassing.
For years there have been rumors of MacBook ...
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Making the Mac multitouch. A bit.
