beeporn t1_j42s7f3 wrote on January 12, 2023 at 7:55 PM

Reply to comment by brboland21 in Apple Reportedly Working on Touchscreen Macs, Including MacBook Pro by Avieshek

Apple is walking on a tightrope for cannibalization of its own lineup. There is a reason they are ~10 years late on this.

Everyone wants an iPad with MacOS but their laptop sales would immediately tank if they did that. Their iPad lineup is extremely bloated with 6 current gen models. Apple has to keep iPad prices high enough that people will buy laptops because of a small price differential between classes higher tier iPads and laptops. It is a really delicate system that works against everyone unfortunately

vcsg01 t1_j6fakce wrote on January 29, 2023 at 10:52 PM

I know plenty of people that only use their ipad pro or macbook and refuse to carry buy and carry two devices, or are like me and won't buy any apple computing device until it satisfies my needs. It's not a given that everyone out there is just going to buy both devices or can even afford that. You could be spot on for the reasons this doesn't exist right now, but Apple is for sure missing out on new sales by not offering something like this. Hard to tell how the numbers would actually play out unless they actually released something.