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Imagine they offered the same configuration with and without TouchBar, with the model with TouchBar costing $400 more - how many people would choose the model with? I bet less than 5%.

Is Apple afraid to offer this because it clearly would show that almost no one is ready to pay for it?

Even from this audience, who of you would be willing to pay the premium for the TouchBar?



I would pay a premium for NOT having a touch bar. I want physical keys for brightness/volume etc.


Same for me. I would easily pay $100 to NOT have the TouchBar.


Where did you get the $400 number from? That feels ridiculous (50% the cost of a new Macbook Air).


Back when they first introduced the Touchbar they offered MBPs in both configurations and the price difference was $400 for the same model with and w/o the Touchbar.


Didn't the non-touchbar version have lower specs? I'm pretty sure I tried speccing the other one to the same level and the price difference was very small.


People in here would probably pay not to have to deal with the TouchBar at all.




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