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I've been using a 15" tMBP for around 8 months now and although I don't miss the function keys one bit, I'm yet to have an experience with the Touch Bar that ma
by neotek 9y ago
I've been using a 15" tMBP for around 8 months now and although I don't miss the function keys one bit, I'm yet to have an experience with the Touch Bar that makes me go "oh, now I get it."
Changing the volume and brightness by pressing and holding the relevant icon and sliding is nice, but that's literally all I've ever really had to use the Touch Bar for.
I'm not looking at the keyboard while I type and therefore am never going to see or use the auto-suggest dictionary thing it does when you're filling in text fields, nor am I ever inclined to use emoji, so that Touch Bar feature is essentially invisible to me.
Apps which integrate the Touch Bar in some way are only ever replicating functionality that already exists in the app itself, and so there's no real impetus to use the Touch Bar if you're already familiar with that app.
I feel like there's something missing here, that the Touch Bar's killer feature just hasn't been presented to me yet. I don't have a suggestion for what that killer feature might be, but I expect that as time goes by and the Touch Bar becomes more prevalent, developers will start thinking about unique and innovative ways to incorporate it.