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2018-11-02, 12:47

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Originally Posted by Frank777 View Post
So the MacBook Air - which is going to be the mass market machine - has eschewed the Touch Bar.

That means the Touch Bar's dead now, right?
No-one's going to continue to code apps for a specialized menu bar only available on a tiny fraction of Macs.
It means nothing of the sort. The technology is still expensive to implement, it uses more power, etc. And Apple considers it a feature of their "pro" machines, whereby "pro" means a high end computer, not the user behind it.

The Touch Bar is here to stay, and will migrate down at a later date, as "Pro" features always have. Kind of like the Apple Pencil migrating down to the regular 9.7" iPad, whilst the iPad Pro got a newer, fancier version. And the Retina Display first appearing on "Pro" machines. And quad-core i7 processors, etc.

Touch Bar is a vision of things to comeā€”the keyboard on MacBook Pros will eventually be a virtual, all-glass keyboard that displays whatever the developer wants to display.

And developers have always developed for small, niche markets.

Always!

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Originally Posted by 709 View Post
Kind of surprised that Apple didn't introduce a keyboard w/ TouchBar along side the upgraded mini. Seems like it would be a perfect companion to a new pro-er machine like that.
Battery and cost are my guess. That sort of thing should have debuted with the iMac Pro and been included in the box.

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