While it's understandable if individual users struggle with the touchscreen, the leading influencers who got early hands-on experience almost unanimously agreed that while the new Mac's touchscreen looks impressive, the actual user experience is lacking.
Apple spent over a decade overturning its earlier product judgments, finally integrating a touchscreen module into the MacBook Pro lineup. However, during the initial public hands-on tests, it faced widespread criticism from the entire tech review community.
The opinions of these leading influencers are nearly identical after testing. While the touchscreen concept looks cool, it feels very awkward in everyday use scenarios and has extremely low practicality.
Besides Media Storm's Tim, top Chinese tech influencers like He Tongxue and Zhong Wenze have all reached the same conclusion: the touchscreen feature offers almost no practical value.
Although touch control offers visual novelty, in a desktop office setting, users must repeatedly raise their hands to touch the elevated screen. This entire interaction logic is completely non-ergonomic, causing noticeable arm fatigue after only a short time.
After seeing this wave of collective criticism, many netizens joked that Steve Jobs had clearly stated when launching the original iPhone that desktop devices didn't need touchscreens at all. Apple broke a product principle it had upheld for over a decade to create this new design, only to receive almost entirely negative feedback. One wonders if Jobs would have been so angry he'd oppose it on the spot if he saw this.