MacBook Pro finally gets a touchscreen, revisiting Jobs' 2010 'arm fatigue' critique

emax · x · 2026-10-29

Tim Cook announced Touch has come to the Mac, with the new 14-inch MacBook Pro featuring a PROLED XDR display with Touch, alongside updates to iPad mini and iMac. It's a sharp reversal from Steve Jobs' 2010 critique that vertical touchscreens have terrible ergonomics — 'your arm will fall off' — which led Apple to choose the multitouch trackpad path. Fifteen years later, Apple reversed course.

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