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I like it too. It'll be the same as with anything thought. You'll have the vocal group (which may be a minority) which is usually the dissatisfied group. There'

I like it too. It'll be the same as with anything thought. You'll have the vocal group (which may be a minority) which is usually the dissatisfied group. There's now been a few of these stories on HN that are all the same, and they feed the people who dislike Apple and simply want to see repetitious negative stories. I've found it quite funny though to see the "The year of Linux desktop". ;) It's also interesting when people link to stories about Apple from previous product releases with very comparable comments. Nothing much changes, it seems.

zzzcpan 10y ago
Well, there is always a tension between interfaces for newcomers, who don't use the interface that much yet, and power users, who do. First group is only learning to use the thing and doesn't really care how productive they are, but cares how discoverable things are, how easy it is to solve problems not knowing anything about the interface and all that. They cannot really be vocal, because they are not using it and invested nothing into it and are unsure themselves about it. Second group cares about productivity and speed and to not relearn things, they already invested a lot of time in the old ways to become productive. You are supposed to never hurt them and always provide options to keep the old ways, as they are your evangelists and the primary audience who's problems the product tried to solve in the first place. I think some people at Apple do understand that pretty well and the purpose of the touch bar is to simply boost sales a bit by making it more attractive to newcomers. Don't know whether they succeeded at that though.