[manachar]

The iPad selling well annoys me, as it's prevented a touchscreen/drawable MacBook.

Apple and most others would rather us have broken and locked down operating systems that sell us apps, it's more profitable for them and increasingly it's what consumers want to.

[LeoPanthera]

> The iPad selling well annoys me, as it's prevented a touchscreen/drawable MacBook.

I am extremely grateful that this has been Apple's path, because I don't want touch screen support in macOS. It would inevitably make it worse for keyboard and mouse usage, as has happened with both Windows and Gnome.

[ako]

I have a laptop with touchscreen, mostly forget about it until i by accident touch the screen, and then usually it does something irritating. The touchscreen is more of a problem then a benefit.

The only devices that really benefit from a touchscreen are phones and tablets. And there for certain types of apps it may even be a better input device than keyboard and mouse. This could be one of those situations: https://www.shapr3d.com/

[sdoering]

I am in the other camp. I have a convertible and regularly use it in tablet mode. Be it when using whiteboard in a remote presentation, be it when reading pdf and doing annotations.

Sometimes I even do work in photo editing with the pen on the screen.

Afterwards I just switch back into normal mode and use it to create presentations, write code and just do my work.

I think there are different types of people/users with different types of needs. Why not provide for both. Other vendors do this by providing the same model as regular and as convertible version.