News Summary

• The Touch Bar arrived in 2016 seemingly already pre-doomed, on a generation of machines that had a “we’ve run out of ideas” smell all around them.
• I still think there’s merit to the idea of screen on a keyboard, but only if the screens are integrated into the individual keys.
• Professionals who work a lot with the same applications tend to get very proficient with their function keys and the touch bar would have made a nice addition to that, instead of removing it.