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Re:The Life and Death of the Touch Bar: Revisiting the MacBo... by jest3r1 on Saturday August 26, 2017 @08:03PM (#15108175)
The touch bar will evolve into a touch screen keyboard.
Re:The Life and Death of the Touch Bar: Revisiting the MacBo... by userbinator on Saturday August 26, 2017 @09:58PM (#15108647)
...and if/when it does, Apple and its fans will praise it as being amazing innovation, forgetting the fact that Acer tried the same thing many years ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acer_Iconia_6120

As someone who can actually type without looking at the keys, I would never buy a laptop without a real physical keyboard.

Re:The Life and Death of the Touch Bar: Revisiting the MacBo... by bitwize on Saturday August 26, 2017 @09:50PM (#15108611)
When I saw the Idiot Bar I thought immediately of the "MacBook Wheel" video from The Onion.
Re:The Life and Death of the Touch Bar: Revisiting the MacBo... by yborg on Saturday August 26, 2017 @08:14PM (#15108220)
God, I hope not.
Re:The Life and Death of the Touch Bar: Revisiting the MacBo... by notadoc on Saturday August 26, 2017 @08:19PM (#15108241)
You ever typed on an iPad or Fire keyboard? Good luck!
Re:The Life and Death of the Touch Bar: Revisiting the MacBo... by nilved on Saturday August 26, 2017 @08:25PM (#15108265)
You ever typed on an iPhone keyboard? BlackBerry's physical keyboard was far better. It didn't matter.
Re:The Life and Death of the Touch Bar: Revisiting the MacBo... by notadoc on Saturday August 26, 2017 @08:28PM (#15108276)
Ugh, you are right and that makes me sad.

But it works for iPhone thanks to a combination of changes in habit and autocorrect and plenty of typos, whereas no matter how much I have tried I have never made typing work on a tablet.

Re:The Life and Death of the Touch Bar: Revisiting the MacBo... by camus on Saturday August 26, 2017 @08:14PM (#15108217)
> The touch bar will evolve into a touch screen keyboard.

Have you ever tried to type on a touch keyboard without looking at it?