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Steve Jobs on why Macs will never have touch screens

Posted on Wednesday, November 25th, 2020 at 7:20 am. PT

Written by Dave Mark

This is Steve Jobs talking about multi-touch gestures during the Mac OS X Lion rollout.

Jump to 3:44 for the relevant discussion.



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