[snowwrestler]

There are a lot of professions. Coders are over-represented on HN, compared to what are often called "creative professionals", who do graphic design, video production, photography, etc. Quite a lot of those workflows involve using sliders to set values by eye.

The Touch Bar is going to be great for those folks. And the new screen is better as well, displaying a wider gamut of colors than previous Macs.

Because Macs have gotten so popular with developers, it is easy to fool ourselves into thinking that developers are what saved Apple. But it was actually creative professionals who were one of the customer "pillars" that Jobs built off of when he came back. Developers flocking to the Mac is a fairly recent development.

[intoverflow2]

The other giant touch surface on the device works fine for this sort of thing. Even Apples flagship demo of scrolling a FCP timeline with the touchbar is better done using the trackpad which can also zoom in on timelines too and is better positioned for use with modifier keys.

- I work extensively in video/cgi software, it's not just devs annoyed by this device.