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Re:MacBook Pro with Touch Bar review: a touch of the future by WayneBro on Monday November 14, 2016 @11:13AM (#12950717)
The touch bar is the type of gimmick that Apple loves though, because that's what sells hardware.

When OS X was released, the Dock was that gimmick. It added "curb appeal" and demoability according to Bruce Tognazzini, an ex-Apple employee who wrote the first five editions of the Apple Human Interface Guidelines - http://www.asktog.com/columns/044top10docksucks.html

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Re:MacBook Pro with Touch Bar review: a touch of the future by ihuman on Monday November 14, 2016 @11:17AM (#12950752)
> The touch bar is the type of gimmick

Sorry if this comes off as rude, but what's the difference on HN between a gimmick and a feature? In dictionaries, it says that a gimmick is a feature that exists to get attention. However, doesn't that describe most new features in technology?

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Re:MacBook Pro with Touch Bar review: a touch of the future by WayneBro on Monday November 14, 2016 @03:22PM (#12952971)
I think you explained it perfectly. A gimmick is a feature to get attention. It's not an indispensable future. It's not a necessarily very useful feature. It's just there to get attention.
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