“These high-end displays could be found on today’s iPad, iPhone 4 and even on the latest upgraded iMacs,” Purcher reports. “According to Apple’s newly published patents, it appears that Apple’s MacBook line-up is destined to gain these incredible displays as well – even though they already possess a pristine LED-backlit display with wide-angle viewing, today.”
Purcher reports, “Yet the big news buried deep within all ten of this week’s display-centric patents is a clear-cut fact that the MacBook is destined to also gain a multi-touch display.”
Full article, with much more, including patent application illustrations, here.
MacDailyNews Take: Again, just because it’s in a patent application, doesn’t mean it’ll become a shipping product.
“To us longtime Apple watchers, Cupertino seems to be saying, ‘Multi-Touch on the screen only when trackpads are not part of the device.‘” – MacDailyNews Take, November 19, 2008
Things can always change, but nothing Apple has shipped so far indicates that the company has any intention of deviating from the approach to touch that we so concisely iterated nearly two years ago.
If Apple does go the greasy screen route with Macs, we hope that a built-in trackpad, or at least support for an external Magic Trackpad, is always an available option. What do you think, is it time to consider more Windex stock?