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> I don't see the dislike for it. 1) You can't really make it part of your muscle-memory workflow if you use an external keyboard more than a very small percen
by handrous 5y ago
> I don't see the dislike for it.
1) You can't really make it part of your muscle-memory workflow if you use an external keyboard more than a very small percentage of the time, rendering it nearly useless for lots of people, right out of the gate.
2) Some of us discovered we barely brush the Touch Bar (F-key) area while typing certain keys (numbers, for me, which means also all the symbols that are on the number keys). This meant we had to all-but disable the damn thing to keep it from opening iTunes and doing other crap, apparently "at random" but actually because our fingers were straying 0.01mm onto the Touch Bar without our realizing it. Result, a fair percentage of users had to force like 3/4 of the bar to be empty all the time, or else face constant irritation when using the built-in keyboard.
- ziml77 5y agoI'm able to tolerate #1, but #2 definitely makes it suck for me. Haptics and requiring some pressure would have made the touchbar much easier to not hate.
- handrous 5y agoRight, I'm not necessarily anti-touchbar as an idea (though I also wouldn't pay any amount of money to gain even some hypothetical good version of it) and wasn't that bothered by losing the F-keys, but as implemented it was harmful for me, not even neutral, so I lost my F-keys and all I gained in return was an extra step to set up a new MacBook (set Touch Bar to one static mode rather than context-sensitive, then replace most of it with "spacer" elements).
- christkv 5y agoThis of this. Made me strip the touchbar of all the icons I could on the left side.
- timeon 5y ago1) we are talking about MBP - it is just under the screen you will always see them. 2) I get it but comparing to desktop keyboard F-keys are dead without Fn-key so unlike Touch Bar mbp f-keys are not on par with desktop keyboard.