A common complaint of mine with any machine running Darwin.
It wasn't bad to program, if you didn't mind working in Objective C... which I fucking detested. Fortunately, it wasn't too hard to build Objective C bridges.

I liked its functionality as an application specific input extension. I have a PC laptop 2 a second screen down near the keyboard (Zenbook Pro Duo) and I like it too.
I think I would have been ok with it as long as the function keys were still there. I can't imagine accidentally hitting the bar if it were above the function keys on my MBP, currently.
Anything that required tapping it like a button... generally sucked though. Your finger reaches for it as if it were a physical key, but it's a flat plate of glass. However, scrolling across it was quite pleasant.
I'd argue a lack of vision is what led to it being used for piss-poor purposes.

Because you're part of a minority.
For my part, I thought it was awesome- except that it replaced the function keys, and in that capacity, it was flatly inferior.
I'm typing this on a 16" M4 MBP, and there's plenty of room above the physical function keys for that touchbar.
Realistically- they wanted to replace the physical keys, because someone got the hairbrained idea that it was an evolution in computing.
The majority felt they were wrong.

Apple pulls in $446B a year in revenue.
Their profit margins are absurd.

It's true they have died before- but I'm pretty sure they could weather a whole series of failed products without causing them significant damage.

I don't give a fuck about the touch screen, but i'm on my second miniLED MBP, and i fucking hate it. I'm really looking forward to an OLED screen.

lol- are you trying to mansplain what I've already told you to me?

You truly are hilarious.
The Nile Delta, also, is not a desert.
Because the amount of groundwater there prevents it from being arid. The amount that falls from the sky is utterly irrelevant.
Tulare basin is the same. Little water may fall from the sky, but it has an absolute abundance of ground water.
Lush marshlands are not deserts.
You are fixated on this idea that a desert is defined by a certain amount of rain that falls from the sky, and that's quite simply wrong.

Your point, was that they are "trying to grow pistachios in the friggin desert", as if the water to do so were being pumped in from some faraway place.
As if the Tulare Basin didn't have abundant water.

As I said, they don't grow them in the fucking Mojave.
You said a thing that was wrong, and you're trying to defend it to the death, and it makes you look ridiculous.

If you're curious, the hydrological history can be read about here

ugh- high aridity- low arability. Those two words have haunted me since high school.

California does indeed have desert biomes.
And as you well point out, desert does not mean low water.
It means low aridity.

Where GP really fucked up, is they tried to look at precipitation as "available water", ignoring the fact that the Tulare Basin was a lush marshland before the water was diverted to its farms. It seems very dry now, but only because that water is being used to grow crops instead of reeds and grass.
It's like looking at the Nile Delta and calling it a desert. It's absurd.

Pistachios do grow in deserts, but for optimal productivity, you want a hot semi-arid environment. Southern Spain, and non-desert Southern California are highly optimal.
Again- Tulare Basin is not some place that's devoid of ground water. It has 2 mountain ranges draining into it, and before that water was pumped into farmlands, hosted the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi.

The Tulare Basin, fucking desert- a lot like the Nile delta.

Seriously, give it up, dumbass.

"This subtype of the Mediterranean climate (Csa) is the most common form of the Mediterranean climate, therefore it is also known as a "typical Mediterranean climate". As stated earlier, regions with this form of a Mediterranean climate experience average monthly temperatures in excess of 22.0 C (71.6 F) during its warmest month and an average in the coldest month between 18 and 3 C (64 and 27 F) or,[3] in some applications, between 18 and 0 C (64 and 32 F).[4] Regions with this form of the Mediterranean climate typically experience hot, sometimes very hot and dry summers. Winters can be mild, cool or chilly, and some cities in this region receive somewhat regular snowfall (e.g. Kermanshah),[20] while others do not receive any (e.g. Casablanca)."

Point out where they mention rainfall.

It is a fact that the climate where they are grown is a mediterranean subtype climate (just fucking google it, asshat)
It is a fact that you are wrong.
You need to learn to deal with that better.

The water intensity of pistachios is because of the output of the trees, not because they're being grown in the wrong climate (ffs, they grow in actual deserts)
As I said earlier, California's problem is that they have turned up the production to 20.

The vast majority of pistachio production comes from California, which, benefiting from a Mediterranean-type climate and extensive irrigation infrastructure, accounted for about 186,965ha of bearing orchards
Seriously, get fucked.

Your 1080p TV that has lost half of its brightness (whether you have noticed it or not, it's there), has an objectively mediocre contrast ratio (before the dimming set in) and decent-black-at-least-when-compared-with-LCDs-which-are-terrible may have plenty of "fine detail" by your eyes, but being your observation is in start contrast with objective reality, I have to conclude that you just have low standards- and that's fine.

Power consumption was never the problem with Plasma TVs. In fact- there was no "problem", better shit just became available. LCDs started sucking less and less, and OLEDs made Plasma look like a better LCD. The middle ground just wasn't needed by the market.
People don't give a fuck about power consumption. We've got half-a-kilowatt gaming machines plugged into these fucking things.

No, it's not.
It is compliant with UNIX, though... But even then, only kinda.

It's SUS-certified. Windows can be SUS-certified. So can linux. It merely means a set of APIs are available.
Also, macOS is only SUS-certified if running with a case-sensitive filesystem, and no mobile XNU derivative is SUS-compliant at all (Apple frameworks do not use POSIX interfaces)

You have no idea what you're talking about.

Bloody misleading.
1) San Joaquin is not a desert. It's a semi-arid Mediterranean Climate, which as it turns out, is nearly perfect for pistachios.
There are parts of San Joaquin that are very desert-like, but that is not where pistachios are grown.
If you'd like me to demonstrate the difference in water availability between Phoenix and San Joaquin, let me know- but start with Tule Fog, then look for alluvial soil, and then snowpack.
2) A desert is not dictated purely by rainfall. Educate yourself.
3) Go ahead and go here, zoom into California, zoom into the Tulare Basin, and figure out where you went so critically fucking wrong.

Nobody grows shit in the desert in California.
California's problem isn't irrigating a desert, it's the fact that its climate allows growth year-round in many places, making much of the land critically overdrafted.
There's a reason they more than double the average productivity per acre of the rest of the US.