TouchBar's problem is that actual professionals know their software and its keyboard and mouse shortcuts. The TouchBar is a mass-market, non-expert solution priced for and forced upon the pro market, who don't need it. Who don't want it because it screws up their keyboards. Meanwhile, the non-expert moms and dads, couch-surfers, homework-doing masses can't afford the high-end feature. And because it's too expensive to add to every device, it's super niche, and so it's not supported thoroughly -- and those who could be won over are pressed to find really compelling benefits to justify its high cost.
I look at the email example, and what I know is that I just forwarded my wife an receipt via CMD-Tab, CMD-SHIFT-F, [name]+autocomplete, CMD-SHIFT-D without lifting my hands from the keyboard and faster than I could take my eyes from the screen and find a single icon on a TouchBar (much less press it).
That said, if I had the feature, I would try mapping the commands for things like Magnet, a window management app I use, but don't use so much I remember its arcane keyboard shortcuts. But that benefit isn't worth $400 (or losing an Escape key). I look forward to it dropping in price and becoming a standard part of a $99 bluetooth keyboard.
I look at the email example, and what I know is that I just forwarded my wife an receipt via CMD-Tab, CMD-SHIFT-F, [name]+autocomplete, CMD-SHIFT-D without lifting my hands from the keyboard and faster than I could take my eyes from the screen and find a single icon on a TouchBar (much less press it).
That said, if I had the feature, I would try mapping the commands for things like Magnet, a window management app I use, but don't use so much I remember its arcane keyboard shortcuts. But that benefit isn't worth $400 (or losing an Escape key). I look forward to it dropping in price and becoming a standard part of a $99 bluetooth keyboard.
