The recent rumors about Apple incorporating touch support into macOS for the M6 MacBook Pro, expected around fall 2026, seem a bit odd. I’m somewhat skeptical about Apple’s abilities lately, particularly after the Liquid Glass reveal. Incorporating an adaptive touch mode on the Mac feels unusual to me. In recent years, Apple made so many changes to macOS to make it look more like iPadOS. I wonder why it needs to add adaptive UI on top of that. And, introducing an M6 MacBook Pro less than 12 months after introducing new M5 models also feels strange.

Apple accelerates U.S. manufacturing with Mac mini production - Apple

What the Apple press release seems to depict are workers building 2U rack servers. No Mac mini in sight. 🧐🤨

Ouch, 2025 was a tough year for Apple. I consider writing my own opinion on this, but it seems everything has already been said. Overall, it was a difficult year for Apple on many levels. Unfortunately, this isn’t yet clear in their financial reports; if it were, the executives might see things differently.

Apple is shipping a UI whose core identity depends on effects that many users can’t tolerate, so Apple has to provide ‘escape hatches’—which implies the identity is optional, and therefore poorly grounded as a universal interface language. 🙄

Microsoft finally makes OneDrive look like a Mac app as it gets an all-new UI — 9to5Mac

The all-new OneDrive Activity Center embraces the Swift UI design language, including support for Liquid Glass on macOS 26 and native accessibility options like VoiceOver and Full Keyboard Access.

Can we say: finally?

I have such a hard time explaining to people around me (family, friends and colleagues) that platforms like Meta are no good and that we should avoid them. 😔

Apple is Testing These iPhone 18 Pro and Foldable iPhone Colors — MacRumors

While it was previously rumored that Apple was also considering purple and brown finishes for the iPhone 18 Pro models, Gurman said he believes that those color options are “just variants of the same red idea — given that the tones are fairly similar.” In other words, it sounds like those two color options will not actually be offered.

I’m getting more and more nervous about Apple’s plans for the iPhone 18 Pro colors…

Matt Birchler’s “[Apple will kill iPadOS] article: (https://birchtree.me/blog/apple-will-kill-ipados/)”:

Matt argues that Apple should discontinue iPadOS and instead fragment it into two distinct operating systems: iOS for casual iPads (iPad, iPad mini, iPad Air) and macOS for the iPad Pro, creating clearer software distinctions across the product lineup. This reorganization would address the current problem of one OS trying to serve devices ranging from 8" tablets to 13" laptop-style screens, and would make sense once foldable iPhones that expand to tablet size arrive. Matt contends that recent iPadOS updates have primarily added Mac-like features anyway, and that macOS’s UI elements are already compatible with touch input, making a touch-enabled macOS on iPad Pro a logical next step.

I don’t see that happening anytime soon. Way too much investment in iPadOS. While Matt isn’t wrong per se, I think we need to look at this from the normal, non-tech user’s perspective.