A Mac for the iPad World

Federico Viticci, in the smartest article I’ve read about the new MacBook Pro: I’d argue that the Mac’s lack of touch is a liability at this point. Its omission has turned from a deliberate design decision that made sense for its time to a choice dictated by inertia and, perhaps, an unwillingness to challenge the status quo. Which is especially funny since the “status quo” of Apple is that of a company that sells millions of touch-enabled devices every year and considerably fewer trackpad-only ones. The lack of touch on the Mac feels like a self-inflicted problem that has no reason to exist anymore, and which John Ternus is rightfully rectifying for the modern age. As someone who has spent the past decade working on an iPad, and is now increasingly shifting his workflow to the Mac, I think it’s great that we’re getting touch as an option on the Mac. I’ve always been in favor of hardware that can adapt to the user instead of the other way around. The MacBook Pro getting touch support…