Apple MacBook Touch Bar 2016

Apple Intro Touch Bar, 2016

In 2016-10-27 Apple introduced the touch bar, a touch-sensitive display strip that function as software keyboard.

It replaces physical function keys, and replace physical Escape key.

What misery it introduced, the trying to be Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs innovate by creating things people want and practical. This touchbar, is tech for nerd.

On Apple Laptops , physical page up/down keys have dropped dead, and now function keys are touchy.

Apple Commercial: So much to touch

Apple Commercial: MacBook Pro — Reveal

The song is Big Gigantic - The Little Things 🎵

Apple Commercial: MacBook Pro - QWERTY

Problems of the Apple MacBook Touchbar

• No physical function keys. To press them, you need to hold Fn and touch the correct area of the touchbar.
• No physical escape key. Very frequently used by programers.
• No tactile feedback on what you did based on finger position. You have to look at the bar, because different areas change their meaning all the time.
• You need to look at it to touch the right area. With physical keys, you can do by muscle memory.
• Fat finger problem just walked from your iPhone to your MacBook.

And now, with the touch bar, you'll have to keep your head down to watch it. It's a watch'n'touch bar.

will it spell the end of function keys across the laptop industry? Probably not. Not for at least few years i think. For this to happen to laptops, it needs Microsoft Windows to cooperate, and Microsoft isn't in the business of innovating laptops. Oh wait, maybe Microsoft Surface laptop , but that's nothing but a giant touch square.

Norton Commander on Touch Bar (parody)

Norton Commander was a very popular software in 1990s on DOS operating system. It's a text-only system. It has a row of virtual keys at the bottom of screen.

Anime Nyanpasu Disco on Touch Bar

MacBook 2020, Touch Square

here it is, the touch square!

• Microsoft Surface Pro