A laptop with a touchscreen should be no big deal — we’ve had them for ages. But Apple took a hardline stance against them. In addition to Tim Cook’s infamous 2012 quote equating it to combining kitchen appliances, Steve Jobs emphatically dismissed touchscreen laptops as “ergonomically terrible” back in 2010, saying, “Touch surfaces don’t want to be vertical.”
The closest Apple got was the MacBook Pro Touch Bar, from 2016 to 2023, but that horizontal landing strip for your…


