Former Apple Employee: Touch Bar Shouldn't Be Forced on High End Users

Re:Former Apple Employee: Touch Bar Shouldn't Be Forced on H... by lathiat on Thursday August 31, 2017 @08:16AM (#15139744)

The TouchBar would have much better potential if they integrated a Taptic engine, and better again if it was a taptic engine which gave you feedback when you were over a button you could press (which is quite possible, some of the initial taptic research could make you feel sensations - from memory something like waves or water?)

And then required force to execute the button - "force touch" / "3d touch" - not an accidental tap.

I really hope they iterate to have at that, at which point it would be much better.

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Re:Former Apple Employee: Touch Bar Shouldn't Be Forced on H... by btlr on Saturday September 02, 2017 @02:36PM (#15157507)

That would be an ideal implementation, though I wonder if part of the reason it hasn't happened is similar to the reason that the Taptic Engine hasn't been implemented on iPads, which if I understand correctly is the difficulty associated with scaling to larger screen sizes.

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