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by jest3r1 3222 days ago
The touch bar will evolve into a touch screen keyboard.
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userbinator 3222 days ago
...and if/when it does, Apple and its fans will praise it as being amazing innovation, forgetting the fact that Acer tried the same thing many years ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acer_Iconia_6120

As someone who can actually type without looking at the keys, I would never buy a laptop without a real physical keyboard.

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bitwize 3222 days ago
When I saw the Idiot Bar I thought immediately of the "MacBook Wheel" video from The Onion.
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yborg 3222 days ago
God, I hope not.
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notadoc 3222 days ago
You ever typed on an iPad or Fire keyboard? Good luck!
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nilved 3222 days ago
You ever typed on an iPhone keyboard? BlackBerry's physical keyboard was far better. It didn't matter.
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notadoc 3222 days ago
Ugh, you are right and that makes me sad.

But it works for iPhone thanks to a combination of changes in habit and autocorrect and plenty of typos, whereas no matter how much I have tried I have never made typing work on a tablet.

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camus 3222 days ago
> The touch bar will evolve into a touch screen keyboard.

Have you ever tried to type on a touch keyboard without looking at it?

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