> Swapping hardware buttons for touchscreen controls has been a huge success for Apple for over a decade, with the iPhone They didn't swap in this case though,

> Swapping hardware buttons for touchscreen controls has been a huge success for Apple for over a decade, with the iPhone They didn't swap in this case though, they added. Equivalent to the touchscreen + keyboard phones of yore. In terms of degrees of freedom, the touchbar adds a lot. It's not a simple swap. The iPhone input system has fewer degrees of freedom than a blackberry did.