3 things you didn't know about the MacBook Pro's new Touch BarPhil Schiller says Touch Bar, not touch screen, is the right way to do Multi-touch on Macs.
With the new MacBook Pro with Touch Bar beginning to ship to customers, Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller sat down for an interview with Steven Levy from Backchannel to talk about the new laptops. The Touch Bar, Schiller says, comes after years of experimenting with Multi-touch on the Mac, and finding that a full-blown, iOS-like experience just wasn't in the cards.
From Backchannel:
"We think of the whole platform," he says. "If we were to do Multi-Touch on the screen of the notebook, that wouldn't be enough — then the desktop wouldn't work that way." And touch on the desktop, he says, would be a disaster. "Can you imagine a 27-inch iMac where you have to reach over the air to try to touch and do things? That becomes absurd." He also explains that such a move would mean totally redesigning the menu bar for fingers, in a way that would ruin the experience for those using pointer d...
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3 things you didn't know about the MacBook Pro's new Touch Bar
