...and if/when it does, Apple and its fans will praise it as being amazing innovation, forgetting the fact that Acer tried the same thing many years ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acer_Iconia_6120

As someone who can actually type without looking at the keys, I would never buy a laptop without a real physical keyboard.

God, I hope not.

You ever typed on an iPhone keyboard? BlackBerry's physical keyboard was far better. It didn't matter.

Ugh, you are right and that makes me sad.

But it works for iPhone thanks to a combination of changes in habit and autocorrect and plenty of typos, whereas no matter how much I have tried I have never made typing work on a tablet.

> The touch bar will evolve into a touch screen keyboard.

Have you ever tried to type on a touch keyboard without looking at it?