I love my MBP, I think its the best yet.
But the touch bar is pretty pointless, I would rather have just paid less money or gotten better hardware.
Maybe if I use an app that uses it effectively my opinion will change.
But the touch bar is pretty pointless, I would rather have just paid less money or gotten better hardware.
Maybe if I use an app that uses it effectively my opinion will change.
If they can improve the haptic feel of it by iterating on a less-critical portion of the keyboard and show people what a more adaptable layout can do, maybe they'll be able to produce a touch-screen keyboard most people want.
The audience for the touch bar is people who look at their keyboard and/or take their hand off the keyboard frequently (e.g. to use a mouse). Come to think of it, the touchbar is probably best considered a mouse+menu accelerator.
As for you, the touchbar is pointless for me, but that's simply because its physical affordances are completely and inherently outside my model of use. I don't want my gaze off the screen and I don't want my hands off the core keyboard. We are likely in the minority.