Right, but this doesn't mean immediately that the touch bar is a good (or even novel!) idea. Other vendors have actually tried something quite similar w/out touch and had limited adoption.

I'm not convinced that a tiny slice of super-reactive real-estate is going to be anything but another menubar item fiasco for the OS. These sorts of things only scale when the ecosystem is rather limited.

And it bears repeating: if Apple really cared about this they'd make multitouch available on every screen and start retooling their OS to support it the way Win10 has.