{"id":19074,"date":"2017-10-02T16:47:50","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T20:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=19074"},"modified":"2017-10-02T16:49:41","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T20:49:41","slug":"the-touch-bars-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/02\/the-touch-bars-future\/","title":{"rendered":"The Touch Bar&rsquo;s Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/512pixels.net\/2017\/10\/the-touch-bars-future\/\">Stephen Hackett<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/512pixels.net\/2017\/10\/the-touch-bars-future\/\">\n<p>Of course, <a href=\"https:\/\/512pixels.net\/2017\/09\/face-id-and-the-mac\/\">if Face ID is coming to Macs<\/a> at some point, the need for Touch ID will diminish. As I outlined in that post, there is evidence that the iMac Pro could be the first iMac to ship with Face ID, but it doesn&rsquo;t come with a Touch Bar on its custom space gray keyboard. Once Touch ID is gone, will the Touch Bar go with it?<\/p>\n<p>Backing away from the Touch Bar would be a bitter pill for Apple to swallow, but every hardware release where it stays contained to the MacBook Pro, I can&rsquo;t help but wonder. High Sierra&rsquo;s lack of major update to how the system and apps can use it makes me wonder even more. Is the Touch Bar going to end up just a weird blip?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Hackett: Of course, if Face ID is coming to Macs at some point, the need for Touch ID will diminish. As I outlined in that post, there is evidence that the iMac Pro could be the first iMac to ship with Face ID, but it doesn&rsquo;t come with a Touch Bar on its custom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1572,1586,30,100,1529,1434,573],"class_list":["post-19074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-face-id","tag-imac-pro","tag-mac","tag-macbookpro","tag-macos-10-13","tag-touch-bar","tag-touch-id"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19075,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19074\/revisions\/19075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}