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I doubt the Touch bar will stay the same. It runs on a separate arm soc and it would seem terribly wastefull to keep all of that after the arm transition. So t
by yreg 6y ago
I doubt the Touch bar will stay the same. It runs on a separate arm soc and it would seem terribly wastefull to keep all of that after the arm transition.
So they'd have to put significant effort into it (to change the architecture to make it run on the new chip together with the system). I think they would do some major changes to it in this case.
Or they can phase it out and say it paved the way for the new arm macs and that it is no longer needed (and keep the face, not admitting that it was a failure). Especially so if the 1st Apple silicon Macbook gen is already touch based.
I hope they get rid of the Touch Bar during the transition. There were no WWDC sessions about it either.
- KingTen 6y agoGod I hope they kill it
- karmakaze 6y agoI see this going the other way. All the keys will become a large touch/display area eventually. It wont me much worse since eventually we'll have dynamically morphing surfaces so the keys raise/depress and have tactile movements/vibrations/sounds. If history and trends have shown anything the future is more gimmicky not less, and useful bits come out of it from time to time. We'll be the generation to say "In my day keys were physically separate labelled and actually moved--crumbs getting inside were a real problem."
- yreg 6y agoPerhaps some day, but certainly not in the next gen. They have a bigger fish to fry, don't they?
- jayd16 6y agoI was thinking they would finally go touch screen and kill it. Maybe dock it at the bottom of the main screen.