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A big problem with it is that, as a new interface only supported on the high-end new MacBook Pro, you still have to design your apps to work perfectly without i
by TazeTSchnitzel 9y ago
A big problem with it is that, as a new interface only supported on the high-end new MacBook Pro, you still have to design your apps to work perfectly without it, lest you exclude users of the old MacBook Pro, users of the non-Touch Bar MacBook Pro, MacBook users, MacBook Air users, Mac mini users, iMac users, and iMac Pro users.
- coralreef 9y agoThat's considered a "big" problem for Mac app developers?
- jsemrau 9y agoYes, 2 out of us 3 complained about it during lunch.
- ghostly_s 9y agoIt's a big problem for Apple, unless they somehow make touchbar support mandatory in XCode. No-one's going to bother developing the elaborate custom applications for it like Apple did in iMovie if a minority of their customer base will ever see them, and that makes the adoption problem even bigger.
- vlunkr 9y agoDon't forget people with the touch bar who might also use an external keyboard!
- Corrado 9y agoExactly! It's been months since the new Touch Bar MBP was released and there are still no keyboards that offer the Touch Bar experience. Does Apple not realize that quite a few people use external keyboards? I'm thinking that Apple is not going to move forward with the Touch Bar concept or is going to change it so much that we won't really recognize it as the same thing.
- pjmlp 9y agoI find it quite sad that Apple was one of the leading companies selling ergonomic keyboards, and what they sell currently is anything but ergonomic.