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“repeated misguided claims that Apple's CSAM tools erode privacy and may enable surveillance for governments down the road”

Fox News is who they should go after as a 24x7 source of misinformation. Social media is just a conduit for speech. It is dangerous to limit free speech on social media.
Fox News has "news" in the name and there's a presumption that what they say has some semblance of truth.

Apple could have done better supporting developers for transition. The DTK program was abandoned with no visible help from Apple in the forums. 

randominternetperson said:

pmc said:

Oh give me a break. Vocal minority.

I work in the field with users and I have asked nearly everyone with a touchbar laptop what they think of the touchbar. I’ve literally not once had a person say they use it. Not one time. 

It’s a trash feature, nobody uses it. The lack of a physical escape key means tons of accidental escape uses. Yes I know there is one now. 

It’s a worse than useless design and if it goes away I will purchase a football to spike. 

Bull. Shit.  Also you realize that Apple has included both a physical escape key and a touch bar, right?  They aren't mutually exclusive.  So go back and ask "everyone" how often they use F1-F12.

Touchbar is a remarkably bad design from a UX perspective. Mixed paradigms. The screen is where you're looking. The keyboard is where you don't have to look, can touch type, have feedback when you press a key. Having a row of keys on the keyboard as a touch screen breaks the basic paradigm forcing the user to stop looking at the display and look at the keyboard instead.

There's nothing you can do with the Touch Bar that couldn't be done with some section of the display and use existing mechanisms to touch, ie mouse, trackpad.
Having a changing touchscreen on the keyboard defeats the purpose of having a keyboard separate from the screen.
It would make more sense to have a touchscreen display. Its been done... such as iPhone, iPad etc. But Apple won't do it because Microsoft has already done it and Apple doesn't want to be seen following Microsoft no matter how much it may make sense. 

I, for one, will be very glad to see the touchbar go away. As you point out, they've already started making it go away by bringing back the Escape key. Thats only a recent change. On my work laptop I'm stuck with the full touchbar with troubles related to being able to hit the escape key, troubles accidentally brushing the touchbar and having some random action occur. I touch-type so I never look at what the touchbar may be displaying that is unique to an app. I adjust display brightness, volume. Things that I can do more easily with the specific function keys on the regular keyboard.

Worst experience as an apple developer yet. Program run very callously from the start. Not impressed.