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1. Dare Obasanjo (carnage4life@mas.to)'s status on Sunday, 05-Nov-2023 06:44:30 JST Dare Obasanjo

   The Touch Bar is a great example of a feature that demoes well but isn’t actually useful in practice. It’s a characteristic of promotion driven development in big tech that companies foist flashy unusable software on users as part of department or senior leaders play to show their product team is innovative.

   The Touch Bar primarily acted as the “fat finger bar” since I mostly hit it by accident. It could have been useful for entering emojis but that UX was too painful.

   https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/31/23938841/apple-macbook-pro-touch-bar-discontinued-proof-of-concept

   • Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Nov-2023 06:44:30 JST Eugen Rochko

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     @carnage4life I always forget it’s there

   • Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Nov-2023 06:49:08 JST Eugen Rochko

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     • ❓ucblockhead

     @ucblockhead @carnage4life Yep

   • ❓ucblockhead (ucblockhead@hulvr.com)'s status on Sunday, 05-Nov-2023 06:49:09 JST ❓ucblockhead

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     • Eugen Rochko

     @Gargron @carnage4life The core problem with the touch bar is that you have to look at it to make much use of it but if you're a decent typist, you have no reason at all to look at the keyboard.