Apple’s Touch Bar: So much unfulfilled promise

Dave Mark for The Loop:

I don’t see the MacBook Touch Bar as terrible, but I do see it as unfulfilled promise. There are a few use cases where I’m glad to have it:

• Scrubbing through a video
• Tapping a difficult to spell word or emoji as I’m typing
• Adjusting screen volume or brightness
• Exiting full screen video

That’s about it. Not terrible, but there’s just so much potential here.

MacDailyNews Take: Apple needs to go all-in on it, so developers embrace it. Put the Touch Bar on the standalone Apple keyboards and ship them with iMacs, iMac Pros, and Mac minis.