I've grown sick and tired of the incessant complaining and whining here. Apple's design team has spent thousands of hours designing and testing the Touch Bar. I think they have a little more insight on this than every single person here that has never used it or even seen it.
Get a grip folks. Put on your big boy pants and stop whining. Let's make MacRumor's discussion forums a great place again instead of what it has become.
Oh yes! I think the Touch Bar is the coolest thing I have ever seen. Wow! It only took four years, and it will change the face of computing. It is one of the first ever glass surfaces you can touch and slide your finger along to do things. How clever! Who would have thought of that? It is virtually a miracle! All of Apple's innovative might is shown in the idea of part of a keyboard that adapts to the software you are using. Who would ever have thought of that before? I certainly hadn't! And it is in such a wonderfully accessible part of the keyboard too - it will be so easy to use. I have seen a lot of exciting things in the world of computing, but this strip of glass that we can touch is waaaaay cool. Whoooppppeeeee! I am SO SO happy. As you say, thousands of hours have been spent designing and testing this, so it must be good, surely, because Apple can't do anything badly. It simply must be good because of that alone! I am a person of no insight and have no right to pass an opinion because the great Apple folks have come up with this magic, so who am I to dare pass comment. My free speech is worth nothing if I write against anything the good folks at Apple have come up with. Wonderful, wonderful Apple and praise be to the almighty, visionary Tim Cook and his team of marketers and bean counters. I dream of the moment I can buy this laptop with a touch bar, but which in other ways is more limited than so many other computers on the market, yet far more expensive. Whooopppppe again! I am so happy to be alive. God bless Apple and their glorious innovation and vision. Down with Samsung and all the rest, for they could not start to make anything as advanced and cool as the latest Mac Pro. Hip hip hooray for Apple. All they do is inspired and wonderful.
Really? Is that what you want? MacRumours would be a great place again (whatever that means) because everyone says how wonderful everything is? If I think something is great, I will say so. And if I think something sucks, then I will say so. In the past, I thought Apple was pretty damned good. Now I think they are sorely losing their way, and their latest MacBook Pros look to be a fine example of that. In my opinion, Cook and co are looking to get out of the serious computer market as soon as they can find a way to do so and save some face. If you think the forum is becoming increasingly negative, perhaps that says something about what Apple is becoming. Cause and effect?
I love the fact that forums are alive with wildly opposing views. What I cannot abide are people who think that negative opinions expressed are some how trolling / worthless / wearing small boy pants / whining etc. What I suspect you need to do is start an Apple Fan Boys' Club or something, then you can impose your own rules that anyone who moans about anything Apple make or do is banned from your club. The golden rules of democracies and free economies are question, challenge and criticise. The sort of place that does not tolerate criticism is North Korea, and they are of course a powerhouse of inspirational technology.
