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Apple's MacBook Pro Touchscreen: A Gimmick?

Apple's new MacBook Pro now features a touchscreen with an OLED display, a departure from Steve Jobs' famous stance that touchscreens on laptops are ergonomic nightmares. The article is an opinion piece questioning the utility of this feature, noting that while creative apps like Lightroom and Davinci Resolve will support touch gestures, most interactions are still easier with a mouse or trackpad. The author highlights the chicken-and-egg problem: app developers may not invest in touch optimizations if the devices don't sell well, reminiscent of the Touch Bar's fate. However, the OLED display (a tandem design similar to the iPad Pro) and lighter chassis are praised as meaningful upgrades. The piece concludes that the touchscreen adds little value, while the display and performance are the real selling points.

• Apple's new MacBook Pro includes a touchscreen and OLED display.
• Steve Jobs previously criticized touchscreens on laptops, citing ergonomic issues.
• The MacBook Pro supports touch gestures in apps like Notion, Canva, Word, Outlook, Excel, Lightroom, and Davinci Resolve.

Shopify Drops React Native for Native Apps Citing AI Agents

Shopify has announced it is moving away from React Native (RN) for its mobile apps, returning to fully native development using Swift and Kotlin. The decision, detailed by Head of Engineering Farhan Thawar and Head of Mobile Mustafa Ali, is driven by the dramatically improved capabilities of AI coding agents, which reduce the cost of building and maintaining two separate native codebases. Shopify found that the advantages of sharing code via RN are now outweighed by the benefits of full platform access and performance. The company has already rewritten its Shop app natively in just 12 weeks, with the main Shopify app underway. They are also building a shared test suite to validate feature parity between iOS and Android. This marks a strategic reversal from its 2020 all-in commitment to React Native, which was originally adopted to speed Android development. The shift is seen as a bellwether for the mobile development industry, potentially influencing other companies to reconsider cross-platform frameworks.

• Shopify announced it is moving all mobile apps from React Native to fully native development with Swift and Kotlin.
• The Shop app was rewritten natively in 12 weeks, with the main Shopify app currently underway.
• AI coding agents are cited as the key reason, reducing the cost of maintaining two native codebases.

Meet (again) Max Schoening, Notion's new CTO

The org chart of the future will be multidisciplinary, and we're lucky to have Max lead our technical organization into this future.

Zoom Expands Zoom for Government Platform with Complete CX Suite and New Authorized Capabilities

Zoom announces expansion of its Zoom for Government platform with a complete CX suite and new authorized capabilities.

Zoom to Release Financial Results for the Third Quarter of Fiscal Year 2027

Zoom announced it will release financial results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2027 on October 29, 2026.

Zoom acquires Onyx, adding open-source enterprise knowledge search to Zoom AI Services

Broadens Zoom’s AI-first platform with the enterprise context that turns conversations into smarter, more complete outcomes