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It’s the last Wednesday perhaps has been the presentation more bright from Microsoft vista in years. A demonstration that they are capable of creating more and better products. Presented the new Surface Book, a PC touchscreen convertible tablet to separate the display of the body. In the other face of the coin have the event of Apple, held two days after and where also saw screens touch in them new MacBook, but with an approach completely different.
Instead of giving us 13 or 15 inch – according to the model-touchscreen, what they have done is to create a panel that replaces the last row of keys and that will vary depending on the application or program that we are. Beyond the novelty that this may seem, the Touch Bar is not only one additive, but a declaration of intentions: ever see a MacBook in which its home screen is touch.
Why?
The truth is that the answer is easier than it might seem. For know it must trace us until times of Jobs, when all was happiness and those days in Cupertino smelled to a mix of horsehair of Unicorn and cotton of sugar. Jokes aside, who was CEO of Apple left us, among many other things, a reflection on why Macs should not incorporate a touchscreen. It was in 2010, during the launch of the MacBook Air, where we explained that the vertical surfaces are not made to be touch, since the arm is just getting tired if we have it fixed for a long period of time.
To this must be added that macOS is a desktop operating system, so it is not intended to be tactile. The interaction must make is at the keyboard, exactly where is located the Touch Bar. It can count on new features without having to lengthen our arm toward the screen, adding versatility to the main element of interaction with our computer: the keyboard.
Touch Bar is the solution proposed by Apple before the touch dilemma in which manufacturers are. And may be the more ingenious that have seen up to now.
