Touch Bar. Given that it was removed in 2021 I'd say - No. However, the issue for me with it was that it replaced a functional key that I want to be tactile. While it's nice to slide a finger to control brightness and volume... I still want actual Esc and co to be physical keys.

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swiftcoder 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I think a large part of the failure was around how terrible that generation of MacBook keyboards were. Had they use the previous (or subsequent) keyboard, and put the Touch Bar above actual physical function keys... I'd be down to still have it around

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vasac 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Later, they made Macs with both a physical Esc key and a Touch Bar. It was a bit better, but it still sucked.

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maccard 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I agree. The contextual UI was great and I loved it, but having it instead of the top keyboard row was a terrible idea

	▲	mbreese 15 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Agreed. The mistake was trying to make them replace function keys. If it was an additional info display/touch input, that would have potentially been interesting. But instead of getting something extra, we lost something in the process.