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Apple introduced the first MacBook with Touch Bar in 2016

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The shortest event in recent Apple history welcomed the new M-series chips, MacBook Pro and iMac and bid farewell to the Touch Bar. The component presented in October 2016 did not have the expected acceptance among users and, after several battles, has come to an end with the withdrawal of the MacBook Pro M2 from Apple’s catalog.

The process to remove the Touch Bar from MacBook Pros began when Apple redesigned the MacBook Pro with its current look. Although the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros with Apple’s chip restored the row of physical function keys, the company continued to update the lower-priced 13-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, adding the M1 and M2 chips.

But the tradition has ended unexpectedly with the arrival of the powerful M3 chips.

Goodbye to the Touch Bar

During the first months of 2023, the registration of a patent suggested that the MacBook Pro could have a 3D touch screen sensitive to the pressure exerted with the fingers, which could end up becoming a repowered Touch Bar, to perform different functions. faster and more comfortable way, depending on the job selected.

However, the document has only proven that not all ideas come to fruition. What would be more of a common cycle in the world of innovation.

Likewise, some concept creators took the risk of proposing improvements to the component, such as customization options, but we will never know if this would have worked, at least not in the near future.

It was in 2016 when Apple launched the first MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, a small touch toolbar located at the top of the keyboard. So that? So that macOS users had the possibility of adding emojis, accessing shortcuts, controlling sound volume, sending, replying or deleting an email, as well as endless options in a much more efficient and comfortable way. However, few wanted to use it.

This 2023, for different reasons, Apple has said goodbye to the classic features of its devices, such as the launch of the iPhone 15 with USB-C instead of the classic lightning.

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