The touch strip would be even more of a joke on any other machine because you'd guarantee 0% buy-in from software developers. The only reason it's getting any

The touch strip would be even more of a joke on any other machine because you'd guarantee 0% buy-in from software developers. The only reason it's getting any positive feedback from anyone is because it's Apple and people are charitably imagining that software developers are going to dedicate resources to support a doodad that doesn't even exist on 90% of apple machines (and only ~5% of notebooks/desktops are Apple in the first place!).