Apple Expected to Unveil Touchscreen MacBook After Years of Resisting the Idea

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Apple is reportedly set to announce a touchscreen MacBook at its upcoming "Pro and Tell" event. Touchscreen laptops have been common on other platforms for years, but Apple has long opposed them. Tim Cook compared combining laptops and touchscreens to merging kitchen appliances in 2012, and Steve Jobs called touchscreen laptops ergonomically terrible in 2010. The closest Apple came was the MacBook Pro Touch Bar introduced in 2016, which is not a full touchscreen.

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