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Re:New MacBook Pro has first ‘DIY-friendly’ battery replacem... by tarsinge on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @04:52PM (#29018952)
> The touch bar is a very flexible (effectively) analog input + rich display device.

It just can't work with people like me that never look down at their keyboard. I'm not trying to be elitist, it's the honest truth. I wanted to love the Touch Bar, tried plugins like Pock, but in the end no matter how hard I tried I can't help and force myself and interrupt what I'm doing to look down, it just doesn't make sense.

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Re:New MacBook Pro has first ‘DIY-friendly’ battery replacem... by RobertDeNiro on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @05:05PM (#29019130)
You're not meant to look at your keyboard. It's simply not efficient.
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Re:New MacBook Pro has first ‘DIY-friendly’ battery replacem... by hardlianotion on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @05:01PM (#29019075)
It might have worked with some kind of haptic feedback device?
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Re:New MacBook Pro has first ‘DIY-friendly’ battery replacem... by diskzero on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @05:24PM (#29019329)
It was tried. Many, many people spent many, many hours inside of Apple trying to make the Touchbar more useful. The simple fact was that looking down at it was a context shift and, in general, no one wanted to do it. It exposed functionality that you would eventually learn to drive from the keyboard.
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