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Weighing what the touchscreen MacBook Pro means in practice, Stephen points to third-party developers, who until now could ignore touch on the Mac entirely.
Yeah, yeah.
But this really doesn't feel like this. This feels to me like a really nice screen improvement to a really good computer for an extra 400 bucks. And maybe that's why I didn't get the ultra name because I don't think it really lives up to it.
I am curious, man. App developers are going to have a ton. They have already had a time with iPhone Duo. And now to think about their apps in a touchscreen. You know, Mac developers until today have never, if you only made Mac apps, never had to think about touch at all. And starting today, now you do. And you have to figure out how your app is going to interact with touchscreen, which is wild. Well,
the first data point is how is Apple dealing with it? Like if you open pages, what affordances are made for you with a touchscreen.
Yeah. And this isn't what's interesting too is like, this is not a flip around screen like we've seen in other laptop makers where you can make it into a tablet. You know, you're only going to interact with the screen when it's lifted up. And aside from the piano and scrolling, you know, for the…
I mean, it could go so many different directions, right? This could blow up and everybody could love it. And Apple could really like double down on improving the interface for it. It could be another touch bar where nobody cares. Like, and people just don't buy the extra. I mean, because computers…