Just another example of Apple’s occasional shortsighted design egotism. Like iOS7, shallow keyboards, USB ports.
Curious, are you saying you would have preferred no function keys at all?
I don’t really get the many complaints about having to look to adjust brightness and volume. Do people change volume and brightness several times per minute? In what kind of usage scenarios do you have to change brightness and volume constantly? I change brightness probably a few times per week, so anyway I have to look at the function keys to find the right ones. I change the brightness more often on my iPad, and that is more of a hassle, having to go into the control panel.
I change brightness daily -- at night I want a dimmer screen. I change volume daily as well because I often work with others around and I try, although I sometimes fail, to be courteous. The functions keys are much easier to use. All you need to do is press them and they actually work.
Fair question but yes, many times a day. I’m constantly changing brightness. And certainly volume.
I am not a touch typist. And as such, I have always find them hard to see and pick out which one I need. They look the same to me and I often hit the wrong one. So the touch bar was genuis to me and actually solved a problem I had. I do understand that it created problems for others though. I don’t know what the solution is, but Apple needs to come up with something that works for everyone. Eliminating the touch bar isn’t it.
BRING IT BACKKK..... I am not saying I used it all the time however it was probably my favorite feature on my first MacBook Pro from 2018. It looked awesome, it had a great premise and could have evolved into something more people might have grown to love. I literally refuse to upgrade my 13" M1 MBP until the new one brings the Touch Bar back. Or how about at least the option to special order it. I don't care if I never touched it once it was aesthetically pleasing and I want it back. I don't see how so many people complained that they removed it so fast, like were people really losing sleep at night over it? especially for the alternative F-Keys that look like they came from the early 90's.......
Exactly. I said the same thing since it’s introduction, it is useless on a Pro machine if it’s not available on every pro machine. Why bother with the touchbar if keyboard shortcuts do basically the same thing and are universally available.
To be fair, we should not expect everyone to be a keyboard power user. That said, having to look at a glass strip that does not offer any tactile feedback is pretty terrible no matter how you look at it, especially if you have been using macOS and its apps long enough for your fingers to have developed some muscle memory.
The touchbar was useful for rarely, but not too rarely, used functions. If you use a function often, you can remember the shortcut (like copy and paste), but if you don't use a function often you might not bother to learn the shortcut. The touchbar then was in the difficult place of having to have very carefully selected functions between rarely used and never used. I good example to me was the screenshot function. Personally, I use it rarely enough to forget the various shortcuts, but often enough for it to be nice to have on the touchbar. I bad example was MS Word, which had bold and italic etc. on the touchbar. I think 99% know those shortcuts.
Lol, fair enough. The new Safari tab I should use, admittedly, via keyboard shortcut.
Yes. The lack of a Touch Bar is cheaper for Apple to make but I doubt that any of those savings results in a cheaper product for the consumer. Apple is renown for taking away functions while not reducing pricing throughout its product line.
So for Apple to add an extra display and its associated electronics on the keyboards reduces manufacturing costs? thanks for the clarification.
Sorry. I screwed up my post and wrote the opposite of what I meant to say. This is what happens when I post things while working. I'll edit that post.
