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I'd consider the touchbar more useful for UI interaction if it were instead in either: - The trackpad - The bottom 1" of the laptop screen
Or the spacebar!
- Touch UI for scrubbing/scrolling contents faster.
- Dynamic shortcuts for most used commands that previously only accessible by using the keyboard.
[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Us...
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My bet is after this okay-to-failure of a product iteration Apple will pivot to a detachable dual screen model... Fear not though, they'll still happily lag behind current hardware for better margins. /s ;)
> Fear not though, they'll still happily lag behind current hardware for better margins. They don't "lag behind current hardware for better margins". The CPU class they use in the MBPr line is still unavailable from Intel. Early "Kaby Lake" PC laptops use other, more power hungry, Kaby Lake models, and even those in limited runs. If they wanted to achieve better margins in any way, they could use way worse constructi…
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My bet is after this okay-to-failure of a product iteration Apple will pivot to a detachable dual screen model... Fear not though, they'll still happily lag behind current hardware for better margins. /s ;)
I don't think Apple will ever do a detachable. They're problematic and have very limited use cases.
Apple's HIG[1] on the Touch bar is actually great. You can sort of understand the reason Apple put it on the Macbook. You can at least envision two interesting things: - Touch UI for scrubbing/scrolling contents faster. - Dynamic shortcuts for most used commands that previously only accessible by using the keyboard. [1] https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Us...
Also, dynamic shortcuts! Like the kind you get with BetterTouchTool[1]?
I thought about putting super mario on that bar.
The touch bar will be what finally compels Bloomberg to build a Mac-native Terminal. Mark my words.