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Apple's first touchscreen MacBook Pro — OLED display, Dynamic Island, touch on macOS — expected at the October 28 event. Image: TechPulse USA PRO AND TELL Apple Oct 28 Event: First Touchscreen MacBook Pro 2026 After 16 years of insisting touch doesn't belong on the Mac, Apple is reportedly about to ship an OLED touchscreen MacBook Pro — and it lands in a lineup that's deliberately confusing. Published October 21, 2026 · By Daniel Rao, TechPulse USA Apple marketing chief Greg Joswiak gave the whole thing away on X on October 19 : "Can't wait to pro and tell next week." The pun is the announcement. Apple is inviting journalists and creators to an all-day hands-on experience in Los Angeles on Wednesday, October 28 , starting at 10:00 a.m. PT (1:00 p.m. ET) — an event built around "Pro," as in MacBook Pro . According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, the headliner is a genuine first: a MacBook Pro with a touchscreen and an OLED display , coming ...

An Amazon Fire HD 8 (2022) tablet — Amazon has now discontinued the Fire line and replaced it with the new Alexa Tablets. (Photo: WrS.tm.pl, via Wikimedia Commons, public domain) For fifteen years, Amazon's tablet strategy was a simple trade: cheap hardware, missing apps, take it or leave it. On October 8, Amazon burned that strategy down. The Fire brand is dead. In its place: three premium-priced tablets running real Android, with the full Google Play Store, quad speakers, an aluminium body — and, on two of the three models, lock-screen ads you have to pay $20 to remove. That last detail is the tell. Amazon finally built the tablet its customers spent a decade begging for — and still couldn't quite let go of the nickel-and-diming. This is the strangest hardware pivot in years, and it deserves a closer look than the spec sheets got. Fire OS is officially dead The story beneath the launch is the funeral. Amazon's devices chief Panos Panay confirmed in a Bloomberg i...