Or could it be that it just pulls too much power for a cordless keyboard? There can't be much room for batteries in those keyboards. If the non-TouchBar one wa

Or could it be that it just pulls too much power for a cordless keyboard? There can't be much room for batteries in those keyboards. If the non-TouchBar one was cheaper then I guess you'd be right. But all else equal I imagine people would want it. I quite like it, of all the things that have been wrong with the previous lineup of Macbooks, the TouchBar really isn't one of them. However - the way Apple implemented the TouchBar leaves much to be desired. You need something like BetterTouchTool or MTMR in order to make it usable.