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creshal on Oct 25, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple giveth, and Apple taketh away – the Escape k...

The hardware was reasonably okay, but Lenovo's problem was getting software to actually use it.

Which none did, because what Windows software developer cares about special hardware only found in a single high-end laptop almost nobody buys?

Apple won't face this particular problem, due to their tighter control on the Macbook software landscape.

benologist on Oct 25, 2016 [–]

The touch strip is rumored to only be in the MacBook Pros so it could be a while before anyone really cares about it, like Force Touch.

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