Apple Says It Won’t Follow Microsoft’s Lead and Merge Phones and Laptops

Apple’s new MacBook lineup comes with the all-new Touch Bar, but without a touchscreen, and this caused some controversy in the tech world, with many claiming that Cupertino’s losing its innovative factor to Microsoft.

But Philip Schiller, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing at Apple, doesn’t think his company is doing anything wrong and explains in an interview that the card they’re playing right now perfectly makes sense in the existing tech ecosystem.

Schiller explained that a touchscreen on laptops and desktops doesn’t make sense because users in this field still rely on the mouse and keyboard, and this is one of the reasons the firm has been looking into ways to improve these input methods, hence the Touch Bar.

Not following Microsoft’s lead

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title: Detect Exploitation - Apple Says It Won’t Follow Microsoft’s Lead and Merge Phones and Laptops
id: cb048002-cad4-4d47-ad52-17eb81d7288e
status: experimental
description: Automatisch generierte SIEM-Erkennungsregel basierend auf CTI Intelligence
references:
  - https://tsecurity.de/
author: iShareStuff CTI Automated Detection Engine
date: 2026-09-24
logsource:
  category: network_connection
  product: any
detection:
  selection:
      CommandLine|contains:
        - 'exploit'
  condition: selection
falsepositives:
  - Legitime administrative Zugriffe oder Penetrationstests
level: high
tags:
  - attack.initial_access

rule CTI_Threat_Indicator {
    meta:
        author = "iShareStuff CTI Automated Detection Engine"
        date = "2026-09-24"
        description = "YARA Signature for "
    strings:
        $str = "Apple Says It Won’t Follow Mic" ascii wide
    condition:
        any of them
}