RIP Touch Bar: Apple is getting rid of MacBooks with the controversial touch screen at the top of keyboards

• Apple has given its controversial Touch Bar the ax.
• The company will stop selling new MacBook Pro laptops with the touch screen above the keyboard.
• While some users liked the feature, others thought it useless or missed the tactile buttons it replaced.

Apple is doing away with one of its most controversial MacBook features after seven years. The company is discontinuing the 13-inch MacBook Pro, and with it, the love-it-or-hate-it Touch Bar.

The touch-sensitive OLED display above the keyboard replaced physical buttons for functions like volume and screen brightness, and also offered things like typing suggestions and shortcuts to emoji and Siri. It also showed different options specific to the apps or systems you had open at the time, like showing your different tabs when you’re using Safari, for example.