Conceivably there were considerable technical challenges in bringing touch functionality to market, an R&D cost that gets passed onto consumers. It's not like the touch screen is just being given to us for free.
My point is I'm not sure why everyone needs to pay the premium for a touchscreen in order to get the screen upgrade when touch functionality on a laptop screen is clearly a polarizing feature (judging from the comments on this thread alone) that a minority of consumers actually want or need.
This is not just a Mac-specific thing. On a lot (dare I say most?) Windows devices if you upgrade the screen (OLED, higher res, high refresh etc) it generally also comes along with touch whether you want it to or not.
There’s only so many levels of customization manufacturers are willing or able to offer.
This is the one thing I'm rather excited to use the touchscreen for. Would be genuinely useful to me right now. Beyond that though...... I can't see using Touch much.
I hope this sells well enough that they might later go the EXTRA step to a Pencil supported 360-hinged MBP.
I'm a hardcore iPad Pro + Pencil lover. And
I'm very tired of carrying both a MacBook for the full OS + keyboard, PLUS a whole separate tablet for sketching, illustration, annotation, etc.
I think there was a modifier key + click and drag to simulate a pinch, so at least some gestures can be simulated. But since one is developing for the mobile device, it makes sense to tether the device and send builds to test out on the target device itself.
From past experience (not for quite a few years, but some at least): oh heck no. I loved simulating locally, but the deeply limited touch handling made it infeasible a lot of the time. The dev -> install -> run -> dev cycle is dramatically faster in the emulator, and you don't need to have multiple devices nearby if you're building custom UI for each size.
Macbook Pros attempt to cater to every slim use case simultaneously, with the idea that if they can handle a use case someone else can’t, they’ll sell another laptop.
This is exactly why I'm considering it. It sounds super useful to feel the drag gestures while developing. Same with website testing when they are meant to be used on a phone/tablet mostly.
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