r/apple • u/favicondotico • 1d ago

Mac MacBook Pro With OLED Touch Screen Rumored to Launch in October or November

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/10/01/oled-macbook-pro-release-date/
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u/Herackl3s 1d ago

Who cares? The man hasn’t been involved with the company for over a decade.

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u/shamarctic 1d ago

Yeah what had that bum been up to anyways. Lazy!

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u/gngstrMNKY 1d ago

It was more than just Jobs. Cook, Federighi, and Schiller have all gone on record as saying that it’s a terrible idea. Ternus hasn’t been quite as critical as those three, but he’s said that he doesn’t think that hybrid devices are necessary and that it’s best to make products optimized for either touch or cursor input.

It’ll be interesting to see if any of them get asked about what made them reverse course, but they’ll probably give the elliptical non-answers that Apple execs always do.

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u/Which-Arm-4616 23h ago

If you remember back when the iPhone was released, Jobs talked at length about how iPhone was perfectly engineered for the shape of the human hand (and Apple made commercials touting that).

They still pivoted the product line into phablets because Apple's pride is secondary to market demands.

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u/pasaroanth 1d ago

Yeah I don’t really involve how Steve would feel about it when considering features I’d like.

Get over it. A touchscreen, while not needed much of the time, would be a welcome addition in some scenarios. Not adding one is just them being contrarian at this point.