I wonder how the Touchbar would feel if it would be combined with the haptic engine. So 'clicks' get only recognized, when you press on it.
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Replying to @nikolasklein
Interesting. Also, there is this odd similarity between the keyboard click on the new mbp and the touchpad click (haptic). Im sure its intentional, and might be a hint to what is to come
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Replying to @DamjanStankovic
Yeah, the Taptic Engine fascinates me. Is probably a heavy engineering challenge to put a Taptic Engine into every key. But it would also give every key a secondary level of 'Force Touch'.
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Replying to @nikolasklein @DamjanStankovic
Imagine you don't have to hold shift for capital letters. You just press harder on a non-mechanical key, but the feedback is like one. Maybe that's the death of the shift-key? cc/
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Replying to @nikolasklein @DamjanStankovic
That’d be interesting to test. There are keyboards with “analogue” switches already today (lasers below keys!), and I don’t think they’re even very expensive.
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(I’ve actually done that when I modded my MIDI keyboard to accept text input.)
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My gut feeling is that precision in positioning our fingers is higher than precision in controlling force… but then again, the history of keyboards shows that we sacrifice a lot of theoretical prowess. See: the awesome Thumb Shift in Japan.
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Fun fact: Some fast touch typists actually use Caps Lock where most of us use Shift.
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Oh, look at this. That’s one of the keyboards I was thinking of and they’re already doing it. I kind of want to buy it now: https://www.wooting.nl/wootingone pic.twitter.com/GWww5ZwSHe
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(Alas, it seems it all works on Windows only for now.)
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