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Re:Apple says no fun allowed on the Touch Bar by awesomerobot on Monday October 31, 2016 @04:42PM (#12840756)
I mean, you could do all of that — Apple just won't let you.
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Re:Apple says no fun allowed on the Touch Bar by randyrand on Monday October 31, 2016 @04:46PM (#12840780)
On OSX you can distribute an executable without Apple's permission. The touchbar API may or may not support all use cases, but reverse engineering the lower level interface is probably not too hard.
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Re:Apple says no fun allowed on the Touch Bar by awesomerobot on Monday October 31, 2016 @04:52PM (#12840822)
Hopefully! I don't think anyone would be surprised if the touchbar was "App store verified" only.
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Re:Apple says no fun allowed on the Touch Bar by tinus_hn on Monday October 31, 2016 @06:44PM (#12841637)
One of the main demos was for Photoshop which is not on the Mac App Store. I would be surprised.
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Re:Apple says no fun allowed on the Touch Bar by eridius on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @12:48AM (#12843497)
That's completely backwards. Apple does not have rules stopping anyone from doing anything with the Touch Bar. The HIG is a set of guidelines, not rules (which is why it's called Human Interface Guidelines), you can violate the HIG all you want and still get in the App Store. The whole point of my last paragraph was to describe why the HIG isn't what's stopping you from doing something like MenuMeters, the way the system itself works is what's stopping you. The frontmost app gets control of the Touch Bar. If you're not the frontmost app, you can't touch it.
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