Tom Boger, Apple’s VP of Mac and iPad product marketing, said in the interview that “Touch ID is more convenient on a laptop since your hands are already on the keyboard.” What about Face ID? With the MacBook Pro now sporting a notch in the display, it seems like Face ID could come sooner rather than later – but Apple seems to think that Touch ID is better suited for the laptop form factor. ![]() We haven’t really felt a reason to change that.” And the Mac is totally optimized for indirect input. “We make the world’s best touch computer on an iPad. John Ternus, Apple’s senior vice president of hardware engineering, said in the interview: Instead, the company is focusing on “indirect input” on the Mac and saving touchscreen technology for the iPad. While Chromebook and Windows PC manufacturers have broadly adopted touchscreens in laptops, Apple has not. Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, Apple executives justified the company’s resistance to adding these features to the Mac. ![]() While the new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro updates have been broadly well- received by reviewers and consumers alike, there are still questions about missing features like a touchscreen and Face ID.
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