With the arrival of the new 2016 MacBook Pro came the innovative Touch Bar and with it a host of new features that developers, both from Apple and third-party applications, have been including so that this new concept introduced by Apple is squeezed into the maximum.
However, many of us wonder if that touch bar with OLED screen will reach other computers of the brand. It is clear that another family of laptops will not arrive, this concept being what differentiates one family from another, but Today we learned that the Touch Bar and Touch ID could reach the Magic Keyboard and with it the iMac, Mac Pro and Mac mini.
Apple has patented a new version of the Magic Keyboard in which it is specified that the concept of the Touch Bar and the Touch ID would be being considered for inclusion in the Apple keyboard, the keyboard that comes with the standard iMac and that we have to buy as an accessory for Mac Pro and Mac mini . This year may be the year Apple finally makes the cylindrical Mac Pro that we know evolves and one of the novelties that would come hand in hand with the new computer would be this.
As you can see in the pictures, the idea of including the Touch Bar in the Magic Keyboard is not so far fetched and it would be something that would once again differentiate the Cupertino from the rest. We will see if we finally see this patent implemented or not in a final product.
“Last Thursday the United States Patent and Trademark Office published a series of six Apple patent applications covering its new Touch Bar for MacBook. The patents also describe a touch bar intended for the iMac keyboard which probably also means an accessory. Patents are divided into two distinct fields. The first group covers Apple's 'Adaptive Input Row', which is marketed as the Touch Bar. The second group comprises "restricted access buttons" marketed as Touch ID, built into the far right of the Touch Bar. «
