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There are people who consider the touchbar to be critical to their workflow. These laptops are a cheap, easy option to support that while bringing those people
by hajile 4y ago
There are people who consider the touchbar to be critical to their workflow. These laptops are a cheap, easy option to support that while bringing those people to ARM (and also clearing out their stock of proprietary keyboard screens).
I suspect they’ll wind up introducing an external keyboard with the touchbar in the future.
- hbn 4y agoI'd put good money on a bet against that prediction. If there are people who consider the touchbar to be critical to their workflow, I've never met them, and I've worked with a lot of people who used a MacBook Pro with a touchbar for work. The most positive takes I've heard are "it's fine," and everyone else (including me) hates it and was thrilled to see the new designs went back to physical keys. Why would they be redesigning all their laptops to drop the touchbar if they were still committed to it? It barely got any adoption from developers when it was built into their laptops, and it certainly wouldn't get any more if it became an optional accessory that most people don't want. I think Apple has admitted the touchbar was a failure, along with the full switch to exclusively USB-C ports, and the thinness at the cost of performance.