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I don't understand why people feel this way. Apple's doing away with 3D Touch because of the data that says that people don't use it. What makes you think they

I don't understand why people feel this way. Apple's doing away with 3D Touch because of the data that says that people don't use it. What makes you think they wouldn't do the same with the Touch Bar? Despite that, I love the Touch Bar. I do tons of video and audio editing and it's super-convenient for me. It seems like HN just has a higher noise ratio against the TB because it's mostly programmers and a high percentage of them are tied to a physical escape key. As a front-end dev myself who uses VS Code, I feel like that audience is just going to keep shrinking while the percent of people that will find benefits to the TB will probably grow.

save_ferris 7y ago
MacRumors has been hinting that the touchbar is being phased out, but we’ll see. If you’re one of the people that actually gets value out of the touchbar, that’s great. Forcing it on all 15 in. MBPs and maxed-out 13 in. models was the biggest FU to Mac users and an insanely user-hostile decision. But they’ve been really good at pulling those lately, so I’m not getting my hopes up.
- Domenic_S 7y ago
  one of the reasons i bought an air instead of another mbp was so i could get touch id and no touchbar!
asdff 7y ago
What irks me is that it's an added cost for not much functionality for like 90% of people on top of an already expensive laptop with other compromises (namely base storage and memory). If it was just an option, you wouldn't hear all this bitching on the internet.
- dpkonofa 7y ago
  >for like 90% of people Citation needed. I would venture to say that more people use it than you think.