![]() So yes, I'm delighted that Apple ditched the Touch Bar in the new MacBook Pro 16-inch and 14-inch laptops with upgraded Apple silicon, which it announced at an October product event where it also unveiled the AirPods 3 and new HomePod Mini colors. When Apple announced it, then-design leader Jony Ive told CNET the Touch Bar is "the beginning of a very interesting direction." Now it's the merciful end. It's an overengineered doodad that caused problems I never had with keyboards, and it offered features I never used. It was a chance to try something new.Īlas, after months of daily use, I concluded that for me, the Touch Bar is far worse than the function keys it replaced. The narrow touch-sensitive display along the top of the keyboard certainly offered a surprising new user interface option. When Apple debuted the Touch Bar on its new MacBook Pro laptops five years ago, I was willing to give the technology giant the benefit of the doubt. The MacBook Pro's Touch Bar, introduced in 2016.
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