{"id":4475,"date":"2015-11-16T08:46:52","date_gmt":"2015-11-15T22:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=4475"},"modified":"2015-11-16T08:46:52","modified_gmt":"2015-11-15T22:46:52","slug":"dont-expect-a-macbook-with-a-touch-screen-anytime-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/dont-expect-a-macbook-with-a-touch-screen-anytime-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t expect a MacBook with a touch screen anytime soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;We feel strongly that customers are not really looking for a converged Mac and iPad,&#8221; explains Cook.\u00a0&#8220;Because what that would wind up doing, or what we&#8217;re worried would happen, is that neither experience would be as good as the customer wants.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m hoping Microsoft&#8217;s new Surface Book proves Tim wrong on this one. The iPad Pro is a weird device in my opinion, others (<em>cough<\/em> Anthony <em>cough<\/em>) may disagree.<\/p>\n<p>A convergence of the two seems natural to me and the limitation isn&#8217;t the hardware but rather the closed ecosystem and restricted usability of iOS.<\/p>\n<p>Oh and while you&#8217;re at it Apple.\u00a0Make a place to put\/attach the damn &#8220;pencil&#8221;. You&#8217;ve admitted it&#8217;s needed now accommodate it properly.<br \/>\n\/rant<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"source-link\"><span class=\"source-link\">Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2015\/11\/15\/9738504\/tim-cook-says-apple-wont-combine-a-macbook-and-ipad\">Tim Cook says Apple won&#8217;t combine a MacBook and iPad | The Verge<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;We feel strongly that customers are not really looking for a converged Mac and iPad,&#8221; explains Cook.\u00a0&#8220;Because what&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}