[bertil]

I suspect that what makes Apple so keen to maintain the Touch Bar, in spite of a lack of adoption after two years is a major long term change. Few things have benefited from so much patience; all those who did were significant interaction changes that absolutely deserved it, but were not properly foreseen.

In this case, I see that the touch bar is expected to replace more of the keyboard and trackpad. It might use the same haptic technology as the iPhone’s home button since the iPhone 7, and have fixed groves for keys; it might use a material a bit more comfortable for repeated strike — but it feel very unclear why Apple would have not taken over touch screen for it’s laptop line.