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points by causal 1 day ago | 0 comments

Kids expect all screens to be touch ready. Chromebooks they learn on in schools are touchscreen. It will be a competitive requirement before long, I think.

[–] Louisgaga59 1 day ago

I agree with you. When I show things to my kids on my laptop, they instantly try to play with the content by touching the screen.

[–] hirvi74 1 day ago

While true, I do not believe kids are the intended market for a laptop in which the entry model starts near $3k USD.

[–] dabinat 1 day ago

Kids will grow into the next generation of adults and having a screen you can’t touch will probably feel like an anachronism to them.

[–] masterj 1 day ago

I think this is more "have grown" than "will grow"

[–] _ph_ 22 hours ago

Certainly not. But they may be in the market for an entry level Mac laptop quite soon. I don't think Apple plans to limit touch screen to their top model for a long time. It is just how Apple likes to introduce new capabilities. Also, there might be technical reasons why they tied touch to the OLED display. So I do expect a MB Air with OLED and touch some time in the mid-term future.

[–] lopis 18 hours ago

Some of these "kids" have already entered the job market, and their companies buy them laptops.

[–] stetrain 1 day ago

People who were toddlers when the first iPad came out are now in college.

[–] mahboi 1 day ago

...Chromebooks are touch screen? This whole time, I've used them assuming they aren't.

[–] fwip 1 day ago

Some of them are, some aren't.

[–] mahboi 1 day ago

I looked it up and saw which ones are, and pretty sure I was using those, haha

[–] umeshunni 1 day ago

Doesn't matter. Google killed Chromebooks.

[–] mahboi 1 day ago

Forgot that I need to refer to most Google products in the past tense