Comparing the touchbar to a touch screen is silly

throwforfeds 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I guess I'm just a luddite that spends my life on a CLI or text editor. Taking my hands away from my keyboard to leave finger prints on my screen just doesn't make sense to me.

I think people that do do tasks where a touch screen makes sense are probably just doing most of their work on an iphone or an ipad anyway.

Now gesture control on VR/AR setups? Sure, that feels like a new human/computer interaction system that makes sense. Jabbing at my laptop screen with one hand on my keyboard, not so much.

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kjkjadksj 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You are right the touch screen is even more stupid

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speedgoose 6 hours ago | parent [-]

It’s not. I had a thinkpad with a touchscreen and while I used the touchscreen seldomly, it was useful in some applications. Notably to easily develop touch based applications.

I have a M1 MacBook Pro with the touch bar since. It’s crap. I remember the keynote where they introduced it and a DJ mixed music using it. It was ridiculous that it got approved.

	▲	abustamam 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I do remember the cringy music demo. Can't believe someone really said "yeah let's rehearse this and actually sell this product." Fortunately I just keep my laptop closed and use an attached display and keyboard and mouse, so I don't even remember if my M1 has a touch bar. Also minor nit: it's seldom, not seldomly. Seldom certainly doesn't seem like an adverb, but it is.