[damon_c]

Easiest way for Apple to fix this is to expand the TouchBar thing to handle the whole keyboard and add some haptics.

Everyone will hate it but... it will be reliable and amazingly thin.

Maybe use too much power?

[dasmoth]

Oh, please please please.

If it’s programmable (and they did a decent job of making the touchbar programmable), it could be an incredible tool. And while getting the haptic right is probably tough, I wonder if it could be in reach now (I love the Magic Touchpad 2, and that’s not much smaller than a keyboard. Although keyboard will need to give some cues as to where the keys “are”...)

The howls of the anti-touchbar crowd would just be the icing on the cake...

[viraptor]

With such keyboard you can't rest your hands on the keys anymore. It's not possible to work that way for any non-trivial time.

[dylan604]

this is the biggest muscle memory i've had to fight myself from doing. i never realized how much time i would rest my fingers on a key in the Fn key row until the touch bar.

i could not imagine trying to do this for an entire keyboard.

[fzzzy]

It just wouldn’t activate at the force of your hands resting on it.

[fzzzy]

It could be e ink which should be power efficient enough.