Computers: Report: Apple working on Macs with touch screens for 2025

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Report: Apple working on touchscreen Macs for 2025

The logo of the technology company Apple at the Apple Store in downtown Munich. photo

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Unlike other major manufacturers, Apple has deliberately avoided equipping its Macs with touch-sensitive screens for years. That could change soon.

According to a media report, Apple could launch Mac computers with a touchscreen in a departure from its previous strategy. The group is considering the year 2025 for this, wrote the financial service Bloomberg on Thursday night.

At the same time, no final decision has been made on this and the plans could still be overturned, it said, citing people familiar with the effort.

While many manufacturers of Windows computers give their devices touchscreens, Apple doesn’t have them on its Macs. On the other hand, there are touch-sensitive screens on the iPad, which can also be used as a computer in many usage scenarios. So far, Apple has argued that Macs and iPads have different operating concepts and areas of application. Software boss Craig Federighi said years ago that they had built prototypes of touchscreen Macs, but found no added value in them.

In the past two years, Apple has switched Macs from Intel processors to chips it developed itself. This means that all devices are based on one processor technology. While sales of Windows PCs have since fallen sharply after a boom at the beginning of the pandemic, Macs have gained market share.

Bloomberg report

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