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That's good news—for the people who are buying laptops next year. Hopefully the return to scissor switches is combined with some improvements to the touch bar.
by sjwright 7y ago
That's good news—for the people who are buying laptops next year.
Hopefully the return to scissor switches is combined with some improvements to the touch bar. My suggestion to Apple would be: put a small physical ESC key on the far left of the touch bar on 13 inch models, and include both physical F-keys AND a touch bar on the larger models.
Bonus points: allow people to choose classic F-keys on the 13 inch models as a BTO option.
- mrweasel 7y agoI would love to see Apple make the touch bar an option. If Apple sold two identical MacBooks models, except for the touch bar, my guess would be that they would sell significantly more units without the touch bar. Is anyone seriously benefiting from the touch bar or even using it for anything other than as a gimmick?
- peeters 7y agoI hate it, but I think there are definitely uses for the TouchBar. My main issue is the lack of indexing. You really can't use it without looking at your keyboard. I already dislike that the chiclet keyboards have no grouping of F-keys, unlike my standard layout keyboard that groups them into groups of four. But at least there I understand it's due to space constraints, and at least I still have some physical guide to the key I want.
- skohan 7y agoIMO it's a liability and an unmitigated failure. It feels like a decision which came down from the board room, not from UX. Like: how can we make this product "pop" and at the same time make keyboard replacements produce more revenue? The toudchbar is useless without developer adoption, and there will never be developer adoption if the only people using the feature are those who can spend a couple thousand dollars on a laptop. It seems to me the non-inclusion on the new Macbook Air was an admission of failure.