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by dasmoth 2972 days ago
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...

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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.
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.

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