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BY Harry McCracken

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Hello again and welcome back to Fast Company ’s Plugged In .

Contrary to conventional wisdom, Steve Jobs didn’t reject the possibility of Apple adding touch input to Macs. I remember that only because he told me so himself, when I squeezed in the last question during a post-keynote Q&A at Apple’s headquarters on October 14, 2008.

As far as I know, there’s no video of our brief exchange. But here’s the account I wrote later that day, in which I report that Jobs said Apple had tested the concept. According to Engadget ’s liveblog, he added, “So far, it hasn’t made a lot of sense to us.” Implicitly, that left open the possibility that it could make sense someday.

Someday came this week. On Wednesday, Apple announced its first touchscreen Macs, 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros with a PRO OLED XDR display.…