I guess you should try to understand the purpose of this forum.
Since I’m having a good day, I’m giving you hints.
The forum is not about giving personal lifestyle advices. It’s also not about the members personalities.
You might find the answer in the title.
And it does help to know whether he bought it or not as testing products for real work in an Apple store is close to impossible.
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That’s awesome.
Let me not tell you how many computers I own.
The point isn’t that the Touch Bar is useless. I believe it can be useful for certain things. I believe it can be fun. But there are certain workflows for which the Touch Bar isn’t only not needed but distracting. And they are the workflows I’d buy a laptop for.
I don’t have the 2016 Macbook Pro because of the Touch Bar. It wouldn’t disturb me if it was an option. I came to read and comment this thread to figure out the percentage ot the people who don’t like it to get an idea whether Apple will remove it or I should try out some Windows laptops right now.
If you love it I’m happy for that. I don’t want it to cease to exist. I just want a computer without it.
You can drop the sarcasm. It reflects badly on you at best and it's reprehensible per forum etiquette/ rules.
Since you are addressing me, I'll reply.
Having the choice is always a good thing (buying different brands/ laptops, turning features on/ off etc.) but you are ignoring the fact that Apple want to advance things and help shape trends. Naturally they must be decisive.
I also noticed that the people complaining about the Touch Bar in this thread,
1) do not have a computer with one and do not speak from first hand prolonged use and experience.
This matters because their "perception" is just noise.
Sure these forums exist for the purpose of discussion but perception is often superseded by actual experience.
How many times did you surprise yourself by actually liking something or someone you thought you didn't care for?
Apple sells an experience and many won't get it until they try.
This month, a person I have known for 15 years always resisted the iPhone. He finally got an iPhone and he absolutely loves it. Anecdotal? Well, of course. But you get the point.
2) the ones who used a computer with it and disliked it made all sorts of excuses to obfuscate that in reality they are simply resisting change.
So I would like to ask, why wouldn't anyone want to replace a row of keys set in its functionality when you could have a touch area that can add value by changing its contents on the fly?
Does it require you look down? Sometimes. But so what? What if it's an action tied to a menu item that would have required hovering over a menu, getting into another nested menu, clicking something and then confirming? You'd want that shortcut whit looking down and perhaps also blinking to relieve stress on your eyes from staring at the screen, right?
The added flexibility and benefits largely outweigh the short term pain it represents changing habits and getting used to it.
Maturing also means that Apple and developers will find the right balance for it.
As usual the best ones will grab it and run with it and the mediocre ones will fall behind.
It just came out. Give it time.
For me it does what it is supposed and it is a marvel of technology. Others will prob. copy it, including manufacturers using Windows. I would not personally switch to a Windows machine just because of it.
And I love Touch ID too on the MBP by the way!
It's incredible how happy I am with the new thinner/ lighter design, the Space Gray color, the screen, the four T3 USB-C ports (did you see the whining about USB-C ports?) and the added Touch Bar and Touch ID features.
I can't wait for the iPhone to ship with a USB-C port. 2017 should be a great year for Apple.