Apple says no fun allowed on the Touch Bar

Re:Apple says no fun allowed on the Touch Bar by fabrika on Monday October 31, 2016 @04:03PM (#12840404)

How are they going to control this for non-App Store apps?

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Re:Apple says no fun allowed on the Touch Bar by xenadu02 on Monday October 31, 2016 @04:14PM (#12840508)

These are just guidelines. You can submit apps to the App Store that violate them if it makes sense for your app; people do it on iOS all the time.

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Re:Apple says no fun allowed on the Touch Bar by st3v3r on Monday October 31, 2016 @04:16PM (#12840534)

They're not going to control it for any apps, App Store or non. It's a guideline. They're just saying, "Based on our research developing this thing, these are the things you do and do not want to do when developing for it." Same as any other company that makes any other thing does.

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Re:Apple says no fun allowed on the Touch Bar by SysArchitect on Monday October 31, 2016 @04:31PM (#12840675)

Only the currently selected foreground application gets to use the TouchBar and display content on it.

Which means apps distributed outside of the app store when they have focus are allowed to put whatever they want on the TouchBar and you are allowed to close and delete the app.

Problem solved.

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Re:Apple says no fun allowed on the Touch Bar by mazlix on Monday October 31, 2016 @04:06PM (#12840421)

I'm pretty sure its only talking about App Store apps.

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Re:Apple says no fun allowed on the Touch Bar by baefage on Monday October 31, 2016 @04:11PM (#12840471)

But maybe they'll make it hard or even impossible for apps outside the MAS to use the touch bar.

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