Apple launched the MacBook Pro with Touch Bar last fall and is praising the productivity features that these products offer to customers around the world. Although many people declared themselves satisfied with what the MacBook Pro with Touch Bar offers, the Apple company is still considering the launch of new MacBook Pro models that do not have a Touch Bar, but interconnect with the iPad Pro.
Basically, this integration would allow MacBook Pro users to benefit from some functions offered by iPad Pro tablets, such as Apple Pencil. Apple could allow iPad Pro and Apple Pencil owners to use the stylus to draw anything they want directly on the iPad Pro screen, but that's just one of the features Apple has in mind.
By removing the Touch Bar from future models of the MacBook Pro, the Apple company could still sell the laptops at a high price, but with the iPad Pro integration offered. At the moment, Apple is developing prototypes that include these functions, so it will be interesting to see how long it will take until they are actually available for customers willing to enjoy such functions.
Similar functions are offered by some of Apple's competitors, specifically those from Microsoft, so Apple has quite a lot to recover from those from Redmond, and it could do so.
"In addition, Apple is said to be exploring additional Retina MacBook Pro models without the Touch Bar, and other pro-oriented features, such as hooking an iPad Pro up to a Mac to use it as a Cintiq-like device."
