This is not just about enabling access to computers to the relatively small proportion of people with substantial problems, who require special input devices and/or displays. The first clue to what Apple is up to, is the topic with which it opened its event: accessibility. I don’t think that is the right reading: in fact, Apple’s tiddly little Touch Bar may well prove the most innovative step that we have seen in computing since the original mouse. All it seems to care about is propping up its iPhone sales, and the millions of creatives who have so steadfastly supported the Mac over decades have been finally dumped. Hardly the innovation that we expected, the rich product pipeline promised by Tim Cook.Ĭompared with the previous day’s launches by Microsoft, it would be easy to dismiss Apple as a spent force in computers. On the face of it, Apple’s event on 27 October 2016 looked its most disappointing ever: with a slew of Macs in desperate need of replacement, all they could come up with was one new model with a tiddly little Touch Bar.
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