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Can you give some examples of common use-cases you run into each day?

I’ve moved to an iMac + iPad setup since a couple months ago, hence the comment about finding non-Touch Bar keyboards inconvenient (even though you can use the iPad as a Mac Touch Bar with Duet [1]), but from memory:

- Changing brightness or volume by swiping in a single motion.

- When you’re typing and get a dialog/alert, tapping on the Touch Bar is much quicker and requires less movement than moving your hand to the trackpad or mouse and clicking on a screen button.

- When typing and having to choose something from a list, like the label for a contact (“Home”, “Work”), it’s again quicker to just tap on the Touch Bar than to move the mouse pointer to open the dropdown box and click on an item onscreen.

- Ability to have more shortcuts with different types of controls (sliders etc.) than you can with Fn keys + modifiers, and labels/icons make it unnecessary to remember which Fn number with which modifier does what.

- Show various status items on the Touch Bar and other customization with BetterTouchTool [2].

The Touch Bar is a replacement of the Fn keys, not the keyboard. It’s a complement to the keyboard and trackpad, not a secondary screen (although you can hack it to use it as one [2]).

[1] https://www.duetdisplay.com

[2] https://www.boastr.net/bettertouchtool-touch-bar-customizati...

Being able to control playback between Spotify, iTunes, and YouTube without moving windows around is enough of a killer feature for me.

This was both easier and less hackish when Dashboard worked correctly.