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Nyancat on the touchbar
- billconan 10y agoI thought about putting super mario on that bar.
- iamdave 10y agoOh god please do this
- bdcravens 10y agoOr the world's shortest level of Pacman
- lightedman 10y agoI can't wait for Bonzi Buddy to make it here. /s
- ourcat 10y agohow about Lemmings? "oh no!" ;)
- chris_wot 10y agoJust imagine Sonic the Hedgehog on this sucker!
- nom 10y agoI want to see 1D snake. No inputs required and the player wins every time. edit: the player actually loses in all cases but one, with a random score
- antishatter 10y agoAs silly as the touch bar looks this type of project gives me hope for its usefulness.
- anothermoron 10y agoYou seem to have a strange definition for "usefulness".
- garrettgrimsley 10y agoThe charitable interpretation of their comment is not that Nyan Cat is useful, but that this is a creative use for a new medium/input device, and that we will likely see more uses developed for it that we had not previously envisioned.
- antishatter 10y agoThat is what I was thinking about.
- chris_wot 10y agoI can only imagine the opportunities that arise for Cialis and Viagra "marketers".
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- taurath 10y agoDammit, literally what I was going to do, but my macbook ships in another 3 weeks.
- gedy 10y agoI'd consider the touchbar more useful for UI interaction if it were instead in either: - The trackpad - The bottom 1" of the laptop screen
- nom 10y agoOr the spacebar!
- nathancahill 10y agoHmm.. I might use that. For typing, I wouldn't miss the physical space bar key like I'll miss the physical escape key. It would be closer to where my hand is naturally on the trackpad too.
- nom 10y agoit could still work as a key :>
- tdy721 10y agoBut will it work like a key?
- nom 10y agoIt should be possible with enough care. A touch sensitive space bar would really enhance a keyboard (I'm mostly using a desktop though, doesn't make sense on a laptop)
- addicted 10y agoThat actually sounds like a pretty brilliant idea to me. If the space bar area was converted to the track pad. Tapping it would be a space, while dragging it would give you the touch bar like features. So for example, when using Word, you have formatting options on the space touch bar like they demonstrated on the touch bar. If you tap it, it's a space, but start sliding from the left, and the formatting options appear on the screen itself, and you stop sliding when you reach the option you want to select it. Basically, tap to touch, and slide to scrub between options (or between a timeline). This way you also wouldn't have to take your eyes off the screen to know what options are available.
- m0dest 10y agoTo evoke maximum outrage, you should show AdMob mobile banner ads on the Touch Bar. First app to do it wins a free press cycle.
- Mayzie 10y agoDon't give anyone ideas.
- BinaryIdiot 10y agoIf I could afford one of the new Macs I would have already started working on this...surely someone else will.
- bla2 10y agoYou don't need a new Mac to work on this, Xcode can show a software touch bar for development.
- BinaryIdiot 10y agoI did not know this. Thanks!
- MaysonL 10y agoSee also: https://github.com/bikkelbroeders/TouchBarDemoApp https://github.com/bikkelbroeders/TouchBarDemoApp which has a facility to run a Touch Bar demo on an iPad connected to a Mac (or a Mac).
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- madaxe_again 10y agoOf course it'll be done. Here I am with an iPhone 6s, and on the average site I see less content than I did on WAP - many sites are 80/20 or worse on mobile. How long until hardware manufacturers include dedicated advertising displays in exchange for cheaper up-front hardware?
- Pxtl 10y agoI want to see a music app on it so somebody do a sweet theremin solo on that thing keytar style.
- err4nt 10y agoDo you have a mouse or a touchscreen? You can already do this pretty succesfully: http://staticresource.com/theremin.html http://staticresource.com/theremin.html (Note: android, and computer users can use this righht away, but iOS users will need to add this page to their homescreen before Apple is fully convinced that the users DOES want to hear sounds generated via the web audio API. Seems silly, but Apple doesnt trust that users know what they want)
- stevetrewick 10y agoBut I don't want to hear sounds generated by the web audio API. So this behaviour seems entirely correct to me.
- err4nt 10y agoWell if you are writing your own HTML and JS instruments, chances are you do want to hear sounds generated by the web audio API. Are the users of Safari and Mobile Safari so different that on the desktop its totally fine (as in any browser) but Mobile Safari users need it blocked unless they take action to hear it? I cant think of any reason to single out the users of Mobile Safari with such a feature.
- maxaf 10y agoThe touch bar will be what finally compels Bloomberg to build a Mac-native Terminal. Mark my words.
- phyalow 10y agoThere really isnt any need for a mac or linux terminal, Bloomberg anywhere works great and so does running Bloomberg inside a VM... Also they would just release a new keyboard with a touch bar given 99% of the install base is Windows.
- ovao 10y agoThat about sums it up.
- chb 10y agoThanks, I'll wait for Canonlake and LPDDR 4.
- chb 10y agoI'll just leave this here.... http://mjtsai.com/blog/2016/10/27/new-macbook-pros-and-the-state-of-the-mac/ http://mjtsai.com/blog/2016/10/27/new-macbook-pros-and-the-s...
- hanief 10y agoApple'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/UserExperience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuidelines/AbouttheTouchBar.html https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Us...
- monkmartinez 10y agoYou mean like the ginormous trackpad directly beneath the keyboard? Wouldn't it be cool if they built scrubbing/scrolling right into that? Also, dynamic shortcuts! Like the kind you get with BetterTouchTool[1]? [1]https://www.boastr.net/ https://www.boastr.net/
- krew_tahn 10y agoNo. Ye gods no. O' how I despise the new trackpads that aren't merely trackpad pointing devices, but also buttons, scrollbars and other bullshit I never wanted too. Christ. I need to move the fucking mouse cursor. And, shit on me, I did not intend on fucking clicking or swiping anything, or an other absurdly tangential but obliquely imaginable bullshit, God damn it. The worst is when you have to press the trackpad to click the button, and as your fleshy fingers flatten out against the trackpad, it registers the pressure center moving slightly, and so the pointer moves, and you click the wrong God damned thing because the trackpad IS the button. It was better when the buttons were separate plastic divisions disconnected from the motion tracking area. JUST MOVE THE CURSOR PLEASE.
- wtallis 10y agoHave you tried Apple's recent trackpads with the Force Touch sensor and haptic feedback? In my experience, the fact that the trackpad no longer physically moves when you press down on it to click makes really cuts down on the problem of the cursor moving during the click, as does the greatly improved uniformity of the force required. Being able to adjust the force required to click is also quite nice. I was never quite satisfied with Apple's hinged trackpads (or the standalone bluetooth trackpad with the click mechanism in the rubber feet) as a replacement for the physical button despite the trackpad size increase it enabled, but the latest generation strikes me as almost perfect.
- davesque 10y agoThat's pretty much all it's good for.
- Fej 10y agoHasn't this meme kinda... played out at this point?
- BinaryIdiot 10y agoMaybe? But if you want to shove a meme onto the touchbar this is pretty much the perfect one to pick because of how it works.
- awalGarg 10y agoSo... just about the touchbar and not this particular project: The touchbar is on the keyboard, almost perpendicularly (and many times at an obtuse angle) opposite to the screen. So I have to move my head up and down all the time. This is not an issue with the regular keyboard because it has physical buttons which don't change their meaning, so I have memorized the layout and I can use my muscle memory. To avoid moving human head up and down, maybe they should have put it adjacent below or above the screen, you know. And while they were at it, maybe they should have just merged it into the screen seamlessly... Oh, and while they were at that, they could make the entire screen a touch-screen instead of just a small bar. Just imagine... a touchscreen laptop. Now that would be amazing, right?
- hanief 10y agoIs your premise correct though? Will you need to move your head up and down? Isn't the touch bar will be in your field of vision? Even if your premise is true, is it better to move your head up and down or to move your hands forward and backward to reach the touch screen?
- BinaryIdiot 10y ago> Is your premise correct though? Will you need to move your head up and down? Isn't the touch bar will be in your field of vision? Considering zero part of my keyboard is in my field of vision I'd say yes I'd have to move my head up and down. I haven't had a chance to play with the new MacBook Pro yet but it seems like a reasonable assumption. > Even if your premise is true, is it better to move your head up and down or to move your hands forward and backward to reach the touch screen? It's actually two different use cases here. A touch screen helps with touch type of controls. So precision zooming and scrolling is kinda awesome on one (though scrolling is weak with the nice touchpad). The touchbar is meant to be more utility like a row of function keys. I don't think it's entirely fair to directly compare the two. For instance moving it to the bottom of the screen instead of the top of the keyboard turns it from easy to access touch keys to more informational. At least in my opinion.
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- cobbzilla 10y agocould someone who has the TouchBar tell me: is it possible to lock the function keys in place? Does the user or the app have ultimate control of its little screen? edit: I say this as someone who loves nyancat, and would love to have a nyan-mode on/off toggle somewhere, if I had a TouchBar.
- ryanbertrand 10y agoThey did talk about customization with a drag and drop interface. Hopefully they allow us to drop what we want there!
- ryanbertrand 10y agoMy big issue with the touch bar is it will be a far awkward reach for me when I use my desk with external monitor with a external keyboard. It's really only useful when I work outside my office. :(
- yNeolh 10y agoThis. I think from now on, If I get a Macbook Pro, I will just buy 2 monitors, and get them upper so the monitors with the laptop screen would make like a "V". With a mouse and no more... Because a keyboard with touchbar I think will be pretty expensive... But It will be at least a year until I change my actual macbook so a lot of can happen in one year, like Microsoft updating the Surface book...
- culturestate 10y agoSame for me, but - anecdotally - I've noticed a ton of people working with their laptops and external monitors in a stacked arrangement lately. They don't use a secondary mouse or keyboard, and instead keep their laptop in front of them with the external monitor above and behind it.
- ryanbertrand 10y agoAhh interesting. I will give this stacked approach a shot then! Thanks
- saghm 10y agoHopefully the function keys on your external keyboard will still act like they used to!
- DonHopkins 10y agoThey should sell boxes of adhesive bluetooth touchbars by the dozen, so you can stick them all over the place.
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- StreamBright 10y agoI was worried that the touchbar will not have any legitimate use. On a bit more serious note, is there anything that this could do that is worth the pain of removing the esc and fn keys from the user point of view? I can hardly think of anything.
- Pica_soO 10y agoImagine Microsoft Clippy providing great advice to the users of the touchbar.
- JoeDaDude 10y agoFor those of us that will not buy a Macbook anytime soon(the one I have is working just fine), show us the youtube!