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kshinabery212,
A "touch screen laptop" is essentially their iPad. Apple is going to continue perfecting their gestures and touch screen technology. They will never go backwards and focus on a pen when the average user can do all of their computing with their fingers. Right now you can buy a pen to use as an input device on an ipad. It is nothing like wacom's offerings AND IT NEVER WILL COME CLOSE and I'll tell you why:
A wacom is designed for the creative (a very small niche market) to give the most accurate and realistic way of drawing on a computer– there are 2048 levels of pressure, a pen tip sensor and the ability to tell what angle the pen is being held at. The average user doesn't need this at all.
To incorporate this type of technology into an ipad, or their next "touch screen laptop" would be way too costly and only useful for a very small % of users. And then there is also a sizing issue... they'd essentially would need to release 3 or 4 different sized ipads to accommodate what an artist needs.
Let's say in 6 years all of our computer's are just large touch screens. I bet that creatives will still be paying more for a cintiq type device or still be plugging in a intuos type of device for inputing.