“I’ve worked under the assumption that professionals were interchangeable with developers”

Though I’m not a developer, I work with, and associate with many. It seems that much of the criticism- the loudest, at least – comes from them. It’s all about the escape key and Function keys.

Perhaps the assumption that Professional developers are the “Pros” that Apple has in mind is flawed.

As a photographer that is also a professional, I find the new 15″ MBP a perfect fit. I like the touchbar, don’t really need the escape key more than once or twice a day, and have never accidentally triggered the touch bar while doing work, whether that’s photo editing, writing or anything else. Perhaps it’s because as a pretty good touch typer, but non-developer, I never touched the top row without looking anyway. Those aren’t on a typewriter and that’s how I learned.