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Replace the entire keyboard with an oversized touchbar? ;)
by trilinearnz 8y ago
Replace the entire keyboard with an oversized touchbar? ;)
- apocalypstyx 8y agoI personally suspect one day they'll marry the touch bar and the taptic engine to make a keyboard surface. That way they could have emoji keyboards and such. And they would only have to manufacture one top case, no matter what country they were shipped to.
- ztjio 8y agoThey registered a patent for pretty much exactly that before the original iPhone was introduced.
- alanfalcon 8y agoMaybe if it worked with the Apple Pencil and the taptic feedback was good enough I could see being curious about it. It’d probably just be a good way to incite a riot though.
- state_less 8y agoI’d probably try out a ultralight/thin “laptop”, akin to what is depicted in Westworld. Two touchscreens clamshelled together. But yeah, I think they’d need to keep the door open with a traditional keyboard layout too.
- 2muchcoffeeman 8y agoThat’s not too far fetched. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FingerWorks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FingerWorks
- mikhailt 8y agoThey filed a patent application for it already: http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.html&r=24&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PG01&S1=(apple.AANM.+AND+2018031%24.PD.)&OS=aanm/apple+and+pd/2018031&RS=(AANM/apple+AND+PD/2018031) http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=H...