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Apple Could Add Force Touch Sensors to Future MacBook Pro Touch Bar

"Will that increase the price of the Macbook Pro?"

Likely so could be another deal breaker of this theoretical idea. But might mean it can also be THINNER so that would overrule the cost in Apple's eyes. [I think just in the Touch Bar only wld not affect the overall pricing]
 
I always thought it needed haptic feedback and that its omission was surprising. Pressure sensitive would be even better (I didn't think of that), making it harder for people to accidentally press things.
 
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3D Touch was one of my favorite features apple had. I used it so much. Replacing it with hepatic touch because “discoverability” seems odd to me because people still need to discover when hepatic touch works/doesn’t. Wish they’d bring it back.
 
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The reason I prefer physical function keys is that many professional applications rely on the F keys for keyboard shortcuts and the touch bar works better with sliders. For mundane repetitive tasks, physical keys are faster; you don't even have to look at them. Many keyboard shortcuts can be remapped, but in a professional environment it is better to learn the default keyboard layout, for consistency and lack of available keys.
 
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mattspace said:
Woo, strap in folks, the feature noone wants on the Macbook Pro, to get the feature noone cared about on the iPhone.

Michael Jackson, eating popcorn while looking amused.
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I really like 3d touch on the iPhone., one of their better innovations in my opinion and much better than haptic touch.. still using it today.
 
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tha_man said:
Apple is doing exactly the opposite here. I think that people who mostly like touchbar are those, who have no use of function keys beyond setting volume and brightness (I guess mostly home users), while most of those who use professional aplications (like coders, musicians etc.) hate it, since those apps makes a very good use of function keys, which are far from "old" or "obsolete". And no force touch will change this, because you still will not be able to use it quickly lik enormal keys without looking at it first.

So instead of putting it on the Pro series I think it would be a much better fit for the Air. Pro series could maybe get more ports instead (blasphemy, I know :)
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But then the air would be more expensive.

I honestly don’t know who at apple could ever think this was a good idea. If ever there was a solution in search of a problem...
 
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Yes, that's what buyers/users have been asking for... demanding even... not a BTO option to have real function keys in-place of the god-awful POS touch-bar ... SMH... sigh.. :rolleyes:
 
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Apple, under TC really has a whole, "We heard you, we listened, and now, we've done the exact opposite!" thing going?

We brought back MagSafe! (on iPhones)
We (may?) bring back Force Touch! (on the Touch Bar )

They've got to be trolling us at this point, right?
 
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Marbles1 said:
The Touch Bar would be useful if it somehow had physical buttons - which could dynamically change according to the layout.

Something like this: https://www.yuelilianyuan.com/new-project

Keyboards are best when you don't have to look at them; and when you don't accidentally press buttons.
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Indeed I would vastly prefer a row of physical buttons with little screens on each one, or even a strip with some physical nubs at certain distances. I find the touch at effectively useless as-is.

I do believe I’d also like it much more if there was Taptic feedback.
 
Marbles1 said:
The Touch Bar would be useful if it somehow had physical buttons - which could dynamically change according to the layout.

Something like this: https://www.yuelilianyuan.com/new-project

Keyboards are best when you don't have to look at them; and when you don't accidentally press buttons.
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I wonder if they could put tiny adjustable ridges along the Touch Bar like another patent they had for screen keyboards that would make the edge of virtual keys standout.
 
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