If there’s one piece of data to measure a company’s ability to innovate, it’s patent filed and valid and, in this area, Apple wants to be particularly prolific. Today, a. Speaking of a patent for Trackpad-equipped keyboard for iPad.

answer sweet name Hinged Keyboard Accessory Assembly With Multiple Installation Modes For Tablet Computing Devicesthis text list Multiple possibilities of connecting two devices, Among the other options listed, there’s also a hybrid product combining the Mac Mini/Magic Keyboard, to which you can attach an iPad or a screen.

We will still stick to the main one, namely the Magic Keyboard with trackpad. When combined, we get Which resembles—closely and remotely—a tactile Mac, with an Apple Pencil (even though it shouldn’t be said).

As a reminder, Cupertino also recently filed a patent to recycle the area above the keyboard in which it can hold the Apple Pencil. To that end, she wants to find a more natural motion than the Touch Bar, without looking away from the screen to find the Pencil and looking at the keys whose functions change in relation to applications.