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   The Verge News Feed (verge@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Nov-2023 00:59:03 JST The Verge News Feed

   Goodbye, Touch Bar, you held incredible promise https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/31/23938841/apple-macbook-pro-touch-bar-discontinued-proof-of-concept?utm_content=buffercc761&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bufferapp.com&utm_campaign=buffer

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     Crowpine (crowpine@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Nov-2023 01:14:32 JST Crowpine

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     @verge My touchbar stopped working after 2 years. It flashes brightly, so I have to cover it with electrical tape. It will also crash my laptop many times a day. Apple should have recalled the touchbar. #GoodRiddance

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     Michael Kovacs (michaelkovacs98@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Nov-2023 01:49:39 JST Michael Kovacs

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     @verge I'm going to miss it when I inevitably have to upgrade

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     Eugene Glover (lonelocust@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Nov-2023 05:11:47 JST Eugene Glover

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     @verge One of the best ideas Apple ever had. Function keys stop being essential a decade ago, and were always inconsistent from one application to the next.

     Developers didn’t develop for it, which was the final nail in the coffin, but Apple made a serious misstep by not implementing it across the entire product line, thus not giving developers incentive to do so.

     They probably should have eaten the extra cost, too.

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     Tim (tim1724@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Nov-2023 16:20:54 JST Tim

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     @verge their biggest mistake was omitting the physical escape key in the first iteration. Had they inlcuded that people wouldn’t have hated it quite so much. They still needed to have better software support for it too, but perhaps that would have happened had the public accepted it better.