I won’t get my hopes up, but it looks like Apple can finally get rid of the stupid and hated Touch Bar on your MacBook Pro 2021
According to trust analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple is planning to replace the Touch Bar featured in its current crop of MacBooks and instead revert to the physical keys (among other things) for the MacBook line. I like to think that this much requested change is due to the exact suggestion I made in my review of the 13-inch MacBook Pro last year. (Yes, it’s me taking the credit).
After all, the Touch Bar is one of the most useless additions to the MacBook Pro, a feature that Apple foolishly introduced in 2016. Of course looks cool, but it’s super intuitive – adjusting things like volume and brightness requires extra touches and isn’t even optimized for all applications. What’s more, unless you go through the process of adjusting your MacBook’s settings and customizing the Touch Bar, your life will be filled with a series of accidental shots from another useless Apple innovation: Siri.
Fortunately, I’m not the only one who feels that way. The minute the news broke, people flocked to Twitter to express their disdain for the supposed death of this stupid feature.
Sucks. You continue to press the keys just by touching them (without pressing them), which leads to many unwanted keystrokes.
There must be an option of not having it on the cutting edge macbook pro.
– LauRRRRRent (@_LR_) January 15, 2021
I agree 100 percent that the Touch Bar is “rubbish”.
I never liked the touch bar, all my shortcut keys for Adobe Illustrator on my F keys, it’s not very practical to remove them
– Daniel Sidebottom (@thefrgstn) January 15, 2021
I told you, none of the third party apps are even optimized for that.
The macOS dock is the touch bar of the UI design.
– Brian McConnell (@mrbmc) January 16, 2021
If we’re being honest, Apple’s Touchbar was a “look what we can do” moment to create a solution to a problem that didn’t exist.
What we all really wanted was a light, durable and fast machine with no gimmicks.
I never used the Touchbar and I didn’t know anyone who likes it.
– Alan Graham (@ agraham999) January 16, 2021
In addition to describing the Touch Bar as “rubbish”, it can also be categorized as “tricks”.
Oh sir, please let that happen. At least give us the option of obtaining the function keys instead of the TouchBar. Even if it costs more, I will pay the price of the Stand Pro. 🙏🏼 https://t.co/PJZllcVmPA
– Konstantin Bender (@konstantinbe) January 15, 2021
Watch? I’m not the only one who hates this thing. We hope that 2021 will bring good news: the death of Touch Bar.