I would argue the Surface was the first device that can actually bridge both form factors. I have a stock HP laptop with a touchscreen and Windows 10, and yeah

I would argue the Surface was the first device that can actually bridge both form factors. I have a stock HP laptop with a touchscreen and Windows 10, and yeah, I don't really use the touchscreen. But my mother has a Surface and splits the use pretty evenly between typing emails and looking up recipes or travel sites, and also doing jigsaw puzzles using the touchscreen. I mean Apple's response to the different use cases is "buy two specialized devices", Microsoft's was to create a device that tries to do both. Yeah it's taken them a long time to be successful with that strategy, but I wouldn't say it's failing entirely.