[72deluxe]

A shame they've forced the TouchBar everywhere. Perhaps it is like Sega Dreamcast and the little plugin LCD unit that controllers optionally supported - none of the games really used it because they could never guarantee that it was there, so it was never integral to game.

In this instance perhaps Apple thinks that everyone having one will encourage developers to use it.

But for me, I completely ignore it and force it to behave like function keys, although it does this very badly because I have to look down to see where the "keys" are when debugging (eg F6, F7 in xcode) because I can't feel them, and also it is completely invisible in daylight, as others have stated.

I routinely use my old 2012 MacBook instead to actually get work done because the touchpad is so useless as a keyboard (and turns itself off after a while, unlike REAL keys that don't disappear if you don't give them attention for a minute or two).

A real crying shame.

[tosh]

Wonderful analogy @ Dreamcast VMU

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