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Re:Apple announces ‘One More Thing’ event for November 10th by glhaynes on Monday November 02, 2020 @04:17PM (#24973480)
We'll see of course, but I don't personally find it obvious at all that Big Sur is designed for touch. Or, if so, it's only an incidental byproduct of them applying a consistent style between iOS-iPadOS-macOS as they make it easier to make apps that run across all those platforms. I'll be surprised if macOS hardware gets touch versus iPadOS just growing into more and more of macOS's current roles.
Re:Apple announces ‘One More Thing’ event for November 10th by mrweasel on Monday November 02, 2020 @04:31PM (#24973656)
That raises an interesting point: Is it the existence of the iPad Pro that prevents Apple from moving forward on touch screen laptops. Introducing a touch screen MacBook could completely kill the iPad Pro and I'm not sure that Apple want to lose that market.

Still it could be that they still firmly believe that touch screen on laptops are unnecessary and provides a poor user experience, something that I happen to believe that they would be right in.