[72deluxe]

I thought this whilst watching Apple's event. All of the functionality they demonstrated on the TouchBar basically duplicated functionality already in each app via a shortcut. Eg. safari - you can open a new tab! (cmd-T). There's an address bar! (cmd-L). You can go to each tab! (cmd-number, eg. cmd-1).

And all of the gestures were what the excellent touchpad was built to do anyway. Scrubbing? Gestures will do that.

It's like they put two giant touch interfaces on the device so that they could fight for attention, and the poor developer has to write two handlers for the two event sources, whilst it does the same thing at the end of it.