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  • Oct 30, 2026, 3:24 AM

    A small part of me was interested in the small additions Apple made to touch input for the MacBook Pro (e.g. expanding the items in a menu more when you touch vs click to give you bigger targets).

    But then I realized I just really didn't care because ultimately it didn't matter. These are all frills on the same dress. Apple makes great hardware to be sure, both its processors, displays, and laptops are top notch. But nothing has *deeply* changed in a long time. They are spending their energy merging iOS and MacOS, not fundamentally improving what either does.

    I get it. Most people don't *want* anything to change, but the first rule of incumbents: maintain the status quo. If Apple has lost the will to make real improvements, I do hope we start seeing others start taking some risks.

    Hero shot of the new MacBook Pro touch screen
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  • Oct 30, 2026, 4:12 AM

    @scottjenson I still have a 10 years old Dell XPS with a “4k” display… and a touch screen. Such innovations we see from Apple these days!

    Anyway, after smudging fingerprints on the display for a few weeks you learn to disable the touch panel from the BIOS and forget about it.

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  • Oct 30, 2026, 5:13 AM

    @scottjenson Apple’s at the point where they’re completely out of risk tolerance, mostly out of original ideas, deeply committed to quarterly profit, and has found themselves digging through the trash heap of things they’d previously said “no” to and wondering if they can say “yes” now for a few extra bucks

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