[Touch Bar] "still just marks the beginning" —Jony Ive
From his cnet interview:
"This was an area of combining touch and display-based inputs with a mechanical keyboard. That was the focus. We unanimously were very compelled by [the Touch Bar] as a direction, based on, one, using it, and also having the sense this is the beginning of a very interesting direction. But [it] still just marks a beginning."
I was thinking about this paragraph yesterday.
What do you guy think the chances are in the next 10 years we see a Mac laptop with a physical keyboard like the new MBP—where the keys do indeed physically move and are seperate objects just as now, but each key-top surface is an OLED display? So normally the keys letters are lowercase and then with caps lock enabled they become uppercase and when shift is pressed they change again. Open Calculator, they change again—and so forth. In FCPX they would modify or when in a high end sound application they become pads for sounds.
Still physical keys, just modifiable now, with built in back light and so forth. Surely this would increase the functionality and use of physical keyboards without resorting to chintzy eink keys or a key display without tactility.
"This was an area of combining touch and display-based inputs with a mechanical keyboard. That was the focus. We unanimously were very compelled by [the Touch Bar] as a direction, based on, one, using it, and also having the sense this is the beginning of a very interesting direction. But [it] still just marks a beginning."
I was thinking about this paragraph yesterday.
What do you guy think the chances are in the next 10 years we see a Mac laptop with a physical keyboard like the new MBP—where the keys do indeed physically move and are seperate objects just as now, but each key-top surface is an OLED display? So normally the keys letters are lowercase and then with caps lock enabled they become uppercase and when shift is pressed they change again. Open Calculator, they change again—and so forth. In FCPX they would modify or when in a high end sound application they become pads for sounds.
Still physical keys, just modifiable now, with built in back light and so forth. Surely this would increase the functionality and use of physical keyboards without resorting to chintzy eink keys or a key display without tactility.