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Craig Federighi Says Touch Bar on New MacBook Pro Has 'So Much Potential' For Developers
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All those mainstream reviewers act the same for a long time now. They just read a specs sheet and that's it, they never talk about their own experiences de facto.
Let me translate what Craig is trying to say...
"We realized that if we add a OLED bar, we can increase the price by $300"
"We realized that if we add a OLED bar, we can increase the price by $300"
Did you know that a MacBook is a device you can carry around and still use, when there is no space for a 13 inch Wacom Tablet?
I think most of the people here are grasping at straws
Surface book is portable and has a touch screen? What's your point. "Touch bar being a good alternative for my Wacom tablet ???" I stayed with apple because I despise windows. Maybe I should give windows 10 another try.
"...and then let developers figure out a use for the thing!"
While it's true that you can map the f-keys to be application dependent, they provide 0 visual cue of their function. Unless it's a keyboard that provide this [0], I don't see how much potential it really has, IME the function keys are often left unused in apps.
[0] http://www.jlcooper.com/_php/product.php?prod=keyshot
it's a lame duck. It isn't needed. It doesn't solve a problem and it actually introduces problems. For anyone who works intensively with their machine it adds nothing. Even as a gimmick to sell to the wealthy casual user, I think it is underwhelming.
You've used it extensively in order to come to this conclusion, right?
What do you think the touch bar is, if it's not a touch screen on a laptop?
You're wrong. W*nk**rs will use it.
The fact that they chose the DJ demo as their audio killer application shows us how these middle aged men have absolutely no idea why we use Macs. We use them because they are invisible and powerful and disappear as our art created on them comes to life. That's why we love them.
They'll learn when these things just don't sell.
Really? All the tech sites love it. The public will slate anything, no matter what it is.
Well if Apple buys me a really awesome lunch and gives me a free sample I will say whatever they want me to say too.
Additionally (edited) the reason why I rarely use the function keys is because they are just out of finger reach. The touch bar is still just out of finger reach. If all the keys were re-mappable such as transparent keys with OLED at the base, then I'd be raving and praising as Apple coming up with something useful.
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Fine Greg, but we asked for expandability, ports, cpu speed, more RAM and battery life.
Not a slew of adapters / constant distraction of a 2nd screen
Not a slew of adapters / constant distraction of a 2nd screen
Oh come off it, you know exactly what he means, which is using the main display as a touch screen on laptops just don't work. Of course you already know that as you quoted him completely out of context and conveniently missed out the part I've highlighted in bold.
I support an ouster of CEO Tim Cook. Replace him with Craig, he seems like a smarter and more down to earth guy. And Craig actually knows about tech products, not just a bean counter.
Hinge not stable: I agree.
Display covered with fingerprints: didn't hold off people for buying an ipad
There is something called convertibles. I might give it a try. Who knows: I might end up Alice in Wonderland.
A mess. Devices that don't interconnect. Dissed function keys but new Macs with function keys.
I was in the market for two 15" MBPs.
Right now, I can't see a Mac that is of interest to me. The prices outstrip the technology and value.
Not disappointed. Sanguine enough to accept that I probably need to look elsewhere for my computing needs.
A lot of friends and family followed me in buying Apple devices. I expect most will follow whatever advice I give next.
Strange times. But exciting to be heading into a new challenge. Probably.
I was in the market for two 15" MBPs.
Right now, I can't see a Mac that is of interest to me. The prices outstrip the technology and value.
Not disappointed. Sanguine enough to accept that I probably need to look elsewhere for my computing needs.
A lot of friends and family followed me in buying Apple devices. I expect most will follow whatever advice I give next.
Strange times. But exciting to be heading into a new challenge. Probably.
Why do people think they can't use this without looking at it? You will easily learn where the controls are and will be able to do it without looking.
Touch screens on laptop's are useless apparently?
And yet strangely Apple promote the iPad Pro with a keyboard resulting in pretty much the same relationship between keyboard and display as a laptop. Actually because of the lack of trackpad we're constantly in the gorilla hands position.
And yet strangely Apple promote the iPad Pro with a keyboard resulting in pretty much the same relationship between keyboard and display as a laptop. Actually because of the lack of trackpad we're constantly in the gorilla hands position.
It really depends on what you want out of the device. iPads aren't primarily designed for Pro use (Yes I know we have an iPad Pro but lets be honest here, it's not a pro device by any means, as far as I'm concerned the Pro moniker for iPads just means +$100 on the price tag), so people aren't going to editing professional video or photo's on their iPads, but they are on pro laptops, ergo you don't want fingerprints all over the screen all the time.