Re:Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls
by dublin on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @02:41PM
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The Macbook touchbar holds a likely never-to-be-surpassed record for "The World's Most Useless Touchscreen". I literally cannot imagine how this UI abortion got to market. To me, the touchbar was the canary that Apple's innovation days were done. Sometimes, it's really NOT a good thing to "think different"(ly)...
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Re:Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls
by 1123581321 on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @03:41PM
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Apple replaced the function keys because they were increasingly disused (and to increase the BOM and consequently the margin in absolute dollars.) The Touch Bar gets used more often. The default modes aren’t to everyone’s taste, but they’re easy for inexperienced users (based on our user observation) and power users like the potential to customize (check out BetterTouchTool if you haven’t yet.)