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Great title. It serves “virtually” no useful purpose. Totally agree. Because it’s contextual, it’s hard to muscle memorise. That’s the biggest issue for me.
I think a button free laptop would be a terrible idea for efficiency. Typing and shortcuts thrives with a physical keyboard. iPad Pro is pretty great, but for shortcuts and typing I’m finding a physical keyboard much more efficient. I use a LOT of shortcuts. It’s making me really fast in my professional work.

On a touch interface there’s no resting position.

I’m using the Touchpad for escape button, and scrubbing in Photos. Sometimes I’m using a few trim cut commands in FCPX because the keyboard shortcuts are heavily optimised for US keyboard layout and do not work in my keyboard layout.

I don’t like the contextual nature of it. I’d like to have the option to make the interface just stick, and not change automatically, or somehow dictate the way I want it to behave. Looking away, down on the touchpad is making me loose focus. 
I think it’s a waste to display spelling options and active choices on it.

thanks for the tips on extension apps. Will check out

This made me think of Scott Forstall.
I hope he's fine.

Speed optimisation is ALWAYS awesome news! Hello snappy! Should be an mandatory prt of every new update.
did they mention when the beta is out? And when they aim for launch? I failed to notice.

I find it weird to have a water resistant housing, in this (presumably) early prototype stage. If true, then the water resistant, and sealed housing factor must be key to what they're making.
Possibly a future school computer. Post iPad. Qi charging, sealed, water resistant, and no ports? Presumably with the full X-Code suite so that it can be self reproductive.

It’ll be very interesting to try the pictured Magic Leap, once it’s out. It looks to mark a major step forward into AR.
’ve tried Holo Lens, and while the tracking is surprisingly accurate, the experience is lame, with this virtual LCD like shiny overlay, at a low resolution, with a very small field of view, and that bandanna visor design. I wouldn’t be surprised if Microsoft was also hard at work with a serious AR headset. One of the most fundamental technologies with AR is probaby 3D tracking and mapping. Microsoft has that working pretty well already. Magic leap has Light Field tech with true depth of field, for a natural integration with what you see.
Apple has got chip developers, and the production process is shrinking in nanometer increments every year..
Exciting times ahead.