Gurman: Apple is developing touchscreen Mac computers, including MacBook Pro

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen Brother Black fly's left hand clue delivery! CTOnews.com, January 12 (Xinhua)-- despite years of resistance, Apple is now working on adding a touch screen to the Mac, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said in a report today. The new MacBook Pro with an OLED display will be the first touchscreen Mac in 2025, the report said.

Gurman said Apple engineers were "actively involved in the project", indicating that the company was "seriously considering" producing a touchscreen Mac. The first MacBook Pro with a touchscreen will retain the traditional laptop design with a touchpad and keyboard, but the display will support touch input like the iPhone or iPad.

CTOnews.com learned that Apple has repeatedly refuted the idea of touchscreen Mac over the years, so if Apple continues to press ahead with these plans, it will be a major reversal of the company's philosophy. In 2010, for example, Steve Jobs said that because putting fingers on the screen would cause arm fatigue, "touching the surface does not want to be vertical".

Asked last October whether Apple's Mac would introduce a touch screen, Greg Greg Joswiak, Apple's senior vice president of global marketing, replied: "I don't know."