Making the Touch Bar useful by abandoning Apple guidelines
I’ve been using the 2016 MacBook TouchBar for little over a year now and feel the same pains as mentioned in the article:<p>&gt; As a machine, MacBook Pro is great. But not because of the Touch Bar. Touch Bar is an inflamed appendix, the same dumb shit as Siri. If Apple had implemented it as an additional row and not the F-keys replacement, everyone would forget about it in a couple of days.<p>At least Siri doesn’t get in the way of productivity.<p>&gt; Once again. I hate sliders on Touch Bar. Changing them to buttons was the first thing I did. Now I can tap them blindly. Guess, even my stress level significantly dropped when I stopped trying to put the sliders in the desired position. It was same to adjusting hot water in a shower — you&#x27;re never gonna get it without burning yourself.<p>Those sliders are the worst, now requiring TWO high precision taps, while looking at the keyboard, to tweak the volume. I find myself reaching for the physical volume controls on my headset more often.<p>&gt; Starting from MacOS High Sierra Play&#x2F;Pause button globally controls the system sounds. It is not a problem on iPhone, but on Mac it controls every ad that pop-up with more priority than Spotify. You tap the button and don&#x27;t understand, why it doesn&#x27;t stop the music. Thanks, Apple. Very convinient.<p>Unreliable play&#x2F;pause button, very annoying.<p>&gt; Imagine, you want to drag a picture to a browser to upload. You click the Finder, but instead opening a new window at the same screen, it carries you away somewhere. Just because there&#x27;s another Finder window opened there. And it&#x27;s fucking impossible to fix that with standard MacOS tools.<p>Not related to the TouchBar, but I don’t understand why Apple won’t improve on the Spaces feature. Why does it force me to use one space for an app.