Was an interesting idea. I think for it to take off they would have needed to shorten the trackpad, move the keyboard down slightly, keep full F-row at half-height, and make the touchscreen taller and closer to bottom of the screen. It was so small, lo-res, and usually slightly covered up by hands.
On top of this, even Apple didn’t use it for much on their apps, in general it was rarely utilized well.
Overall I think the key part of it was evolution and learning for apple silicon on the Mac.
I’ve never been able to adjust my workflow for it; I simply don’t look at the keyboard much at all.
Also I found that the brief period I really tried to use it, it kind of triggered some muscle memory that had me touching the main screen quite a bit, which of course doesn’t work and leaves fingerprints. It’s a weird hybrid.
Was an interesting idea. I think for it to take off they would have needed to shorten the trackpad, move the keyboard down slightly, keep full F-row at half-height, and make the touchscreen taller and closer to bottom of the screen. It was so small, lo-res, and usually slightly covered up by hands.
On top of this, even Apple didn’t use it for much on their apps, in general it was rarely utilized well.
Overall I think the key part of it was evolution and learning for apple silicon on the Mac.
I’ve never been able to adjust my workflow for it; I simply don’t look at the keyboard much at all.
Also I found that the brief period I really tried to use it, it kind of triggered some muscle memory that had me touching the main screen quite a bit, which of course doesn’t work and leaves fingerprints. It’s a weird hybrid.