At the new product launch event held in October 2021, Apple announced the new MacBook Pro with M1 Pro / Max. The 2021 MacBook Pro has more I / O ports and several changes, including the abolition of the unpopular Touch Bar. On the other hand, the touch screen that is already used in Windows PCs and the face recognition function “Face ID” are still not installed in Macs. John Ternus, Apple’s senior vice president of hardware engineering, told The Wall Street Journal why Apple doesn’t have touchscreens or Face ID on Macs.
Apple explains why it hasn’t added a touchscreen or Face ID to the Mac – 9to5Mac
https://9to5mac.com/2021/10/29/apple-touchscreen-mac-interview-ipad/
Many Chromebooks and laptops running Windows have touchscreens, but Apple hasn’t adopted touchscreens on Macs at the time of writing.
About this, Ternus said, “We are making the best touch computer in the world on the iPad, so we can say that the iPad is fully optimized for touch operations, and the Mac (touch the screen directly). It’s fully optimized for indirect typing (from the keyboard instead of), so I don’t feel there’s any reason to change these compositions, “he said.” The iPad is a touchscreen. ” Claims to be optimized for “keyboard input” respectively.
The display of the new MacBook Pro has a narrower bezel, but with the addition of a notch (the notch at the top of the display) that is familiar to iPhones and iPads. Since the notch is a design feature that appeared when Face ID was added to the iPhone, it was expected that Face ID would be added to the new MacBook Pro, but it is installed. It remains the Touch ID of the fingerprint authentication function.
Tom Boger, Apple’s vice president of iPad product marketing, said he thinks Touch ID is a better form factor for the MacBook than Face ID. I think it’s more convenient for the MacBook to have Touch ID here. “
Also, for example, when Joanna Stern of The Wall Street Journal repairs a MacBook, it is hundreds of dollars (tens of thousands of yen) to use an independent repair company without using Apple’s official repair service. Pointed out that savings are possible. However, this is only if the independent repairer has the parts and information needed for the repair. In response to this situation, Mr. Stern insisted that “Apple should recognize the right to repair more”, but Mr. Boger only said “We are working hard in that field”, Apple He didn’t say much about what action he would take on his right to repair in the future.
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In addition, the Wall Street Journal pointed out that “MacBook Pro can not add memory after purchase”, Boger and Ternus pointed out that “Unified Memory Architecture” installed in Mac improves performance He said he was buying it all at once, and said that he didn’t need to add more memory.
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