{"id":1856,"date":"2025-03-19T12:41:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T13:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/?p=1856"},"modified":"2025-04-28T11:32:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T11:32:44","slug":"the-touchscreen-mac-apple-probably-wont-make-and-the-one-it-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/2025\/03\/19\/the-touchscreen-mac-apple-probably-wont-make-and-the-one-it-will\/","title":{"rendered":"The touchscreen Mac Apple probably won\u2019t make, and the one it will"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/The-touchscreen-Mac-Apple-probably-wont-make-and-the-one-it-will.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p>I last year described the touchscreen <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/mac\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mac<\/a> as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2024\/05\/17\/touchscreen-macs-idea-will-not-die\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the idea that will not die<\/a>.\u201d No matter how many times Apple says it won\u2019t make one, we see continued suggestions that it will, or should.<\/p>\n<p>To be clear, Apple absolutely <em>has<\/em> made prototypes of touchscreen Macs. The first of these dates back to at least 2008, and probably earlier \u2026 <\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"mac,macbook-pro,opinion\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" data-post-id=\"994587\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/03\/19\/the-touchscreen-mac-apple-probably-wont-make-and-the-one-it-will\/#more-994587\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I last year described the touchscreen Mac as \u201cthe idea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1856"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1859,"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions\/1859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}