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Re:Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Key... by apocalypstyx on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @11:09PM (#17413774)
I personally suspect one day they'll marry the touch bar and the taptic engine to make a keyboard surface. That way they could have emoji keyboards and such. And they would only have to manufacture one top case, no matter what country they were shipped to.
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Re:Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Key... by alanfalcon on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @11:43PM (#17413913)
Maybe if it worked with the Apple Pencil and the taptic feedback was good enough I could see being curious about it. It’d probably just be a good way to incite a riot though.
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Re:Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Key... by state_less on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @11:54PM (#17413950)
I’d probably try out a ultralight/thin “laptop”, akin to what is depicted in Westworld. Two touchscreens clamshelled together.

But yeah, I think they’d need to keep the door open with a traditional keyboard layout too.

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Re:Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Key... by ztjio on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @11:13PM (#17413796)
They registered a patent for pretty much exactly that before the original iPhone was introduced.
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