{"id":1055,"date":"2025-03-19T12:41:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T13:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/?p=1055"},"modified":"2025-05-09T13:14:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T13:14:47","slug":"the-touchscreen-mac-apple-probably-wont-make-and-the-one-it-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/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 src=\"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/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 that will not die.\u201d No matter how many ...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1055"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1058,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions\/1058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}