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Re:Apple announces ‘One More Thing’ event for November 10th by socialdemocrat on Monday November 02, 2020 @04:28PM (#24973631)
No there will be no touch screen Mac. People have kept saying this for years, yet it never happens. Why? Because it is a terrible idea, and we don’t want it.

If you want a touch based OS from Apple, then that already exists. It is called iOS.

Why would you want a touch interface on an interface optimized for mouse and keyboard?

You cannot have both. What works well for touch will be terrible with a keyboard/mouse interface.

Microsoft was morons trying to merge the two paradigms. Win 10 is one of the worst OS’s I have used.

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Re:Apple announces ‘One More Thing’ event for November 10th by arm on Monday November 02, 2020 @04:33PM (#24973679)
Apple has already announced ARM-based Macs will support running iOS apps. While they’d technically be usable without a touchscreen, I’d expect the user experience to be quite bad; especially for iOS games.
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Re:Apple announces ‘One More Thing’ event for November 10th by snazz on Monday November 02, 2020 @05:59PM (#24974482)
Lots of iOS games already support gamepads and iOS has supported keyboards and mice for a while now. I'm guessing that developers will be able to support keyboard/mouse once and get it on the iPad and Apple Silicon Macs.
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