"First, this suggests development of the feature has either stopped completely or been moved to a different cadence (perhaps Apple will dust it off and reintroduce it in a decade when it needs to pop a little PR dazzle into a future hardware release). Secondly, it suggests that the effective market failure of the feature means Apple has diverted resources elsewhere, including testing resources. Because a flaw as widely reported as this should have showed up in testing."
"Finally, it suggests another possibility: that even Apple's own test teams aren't making much use of what Touch Bar provides. It's plausible to speculate that this is because many of the features the Touch Bar supports are now provided by Tahoe's somewhat smarter Siri, Shortcuts, and Apple Intelligence. In this case, it hints that testers were looking far more closely at those new features than legacy tools they weren't so interested in, including the Touch Bar."
Development of the Touch Bar appears to have stopped or shifted to a different cadence, indicating deprioritization within Apple. The feature's poor market performance has prompted resource diversion, including reduced testing attention, which allowed a widely reported flaw to escape detection. Apple's internal testers may not use the Touch Bar extensively because many of its functions are now provided by Tahoe-era Siri, Shortcuts, and Apple Intelligence, which received more testing focus. Some MacBook Pro owners who bought the machine for the Touch Bar may feel resentment, but most expect long-term reliability from expensive hardware. The Touch Bar is effectively deprecated, though hardware integration prevents immediate discontinuation. A possible future is reintroducing it as an iPhone or iPad app serving as an external control interface for complex creative tasks.
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