<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pembrook</author><text>Not only is most desktop software not well suited to touch interactions, touchscreens on laptops are also an ergonomic nightmare.&lt;p&gt;Try reaching your hand up to touch your monitor and hold it there for a minute. Now try pretending you’ll do this for an 8 hour workday.&lt;p&gt;It’s a useless feature in search of a use-case.</text><parent_chain><item><author>zepto</author><text>“Apple’s insistence that reaching up to touch a laptop screen is too burdensome is just getting silly, especially when that is not a problem on the iPad and across the universe of Windows laptops, and most especially when these laptops can run iPhone and iPad apps natively.“&lt;p&gt;In a way Nilay is right - ultimately it makes no sense &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; to allow touch interaction.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;However&lt;/i&gt; Apple is also right in a different way.  If apps are designed to work primarily with touch, reaching up all the time will negate the value of keyboard and touch pad and &lt;i&gt;will&lt;/i&gt; be needlessly fatiguing.&lt;p&gt;Apps need to be designed to accommodate both kinds of usage.&lt;p&gt;Windows gets away with this because most apps are designed as laptop first.&lt;p&gt;By delaying the introduction of the touch screen, Apple is pressuring developers to make their Apps work in both contexts.&lt;p&gt;When they introduce a touch screen they’ll say something like “Back in 2020 most touch apps weren’t designed for the kinds of uses laptop and desktop users expect.  Since then developers have done an amazing job of giving all our our users a great experience.  Thanks in part to their hard work, today we’re proud to introduce the first computer that truly combines what we have learned about how to build great touch apps, with the decades of understanding that has gone into making MacOS into the worlds most advanced desktop operating system.”</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple MacBook Pro with M1 Review</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/21570497/apple-macbook-pro-2020-m1-review</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>woah</author><text>I’ve used windows laptops with touchscreens a lot and never really used the touchscreen. There doesn’t seem to be a point.</text><parent_chain><item><author>zepto</author><text>“Apple’s insistence that reaching up to touch a laptop screen is too burdensome is just getting silly, especially when that is not a problem on the iPad and across the universe of Windows laptops, and most especially when these laptops can run iPhone and iPad apps natively.“&lt;p&gt;In a way Nilay is right - ultimately it makes no sense &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; to allow touch interaction.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;However&lt;/i&gt; Apple is also right in a different way.  If apps are designed to work primarily with touch, reaching up all the time will negate the value of keyboard and touch pad and &lt;i&gt;will&lt;/i&gt; be needlessly fatiguing.&lt;p&gt;Apps need to be designed to accommodate both kinds of usage.&lt;p&gt;Windows gets away with this because most apps are designed as laptop first.&lt;p&gt;By delaying the introduction of the touch screen, Apple is pressuring developers to make their Apps work in both contexts.&lt;p&gt;When they introduce a touch screen they’ll say something like “Back in 2020 most touch apps weren’t designed for the kinds of uses laptop and desktop users expect.  Since then developers have done an amazing job of giving all our our users a great experience.  Thanks in part to their hard work, today we’re proud to introduce the first computer that truly combines what we have learned about how to build great touch apps, with the decades of understanding that has gone into making MacOS into the worlds most advanced desktop operating system.”</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Apple MacBook Pro with M1 Review</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/21570497/apple-macbook-pro-2020-m1-review</url></story>