Against Steve Jobs' Wishes, Apple May Be Working on a Touchscreen Macbook Pro

I've never once wished my Macbook has a touch screen. I think it's a waste of money, technical resources, and maintenance needed to enable touch on macOS.

It's interesting that some of the commentators here are very, very against touch screens on a laptop. I use a MacBook Pro and a Panasonic Toughbook (https://blog.jgc.org/2025/07/ode-to-anti-mac-panasonic-tough...). The Panasonic has a touch screen and I love being able to touch a window to bring it to the foreground and use my finger instead of the mouse. It works well for "I want the input point to be here".

To make a screen that is designed for touch will mean thicker heavier screens which has to impact the width surely?

Or will we see "You are touching it wrong"?

When I was helping my dad with various windows 10 problems, he was constantly touching the screen in exasperation. These touches only created more problems.

I deactivated his touchscreen. He’s never complained about his screen not responding like it used to.

I still see him touching the screens, but it doesn’t respond anymore.

Jobs was right, as usual. It's a useless feature nobody wants other than Apple's marketing department.

I’ve had laptops with touchscreens and without and I never noticed a difference / didn’t use them.

IMHO a macOS-capable iPad Pro would be the more elegant path.