Keyboard backlight and logo on laptop cover!?

[moonwalkers]

Many new features added to Apple products have been so good that have been copied by competitors, except for the ones that are added and then removed a few models down the line, that's what I'm referring to the I said that I prefer to wait a few years to see what happens with the Touch Bar and Neural Engine. IMHO, most of the features that end up being removed where almost certainly a gimmick back then when they were added.

Touch Bar has been around for half a decade already. Unlike other questionable decisions that Apple rolled back within five years, Touch Bar has not been removed. Based on Apple's track record with old-school "dinosaur-type" touch-typing power users, I'm inclined to say that this giant F*** Y** to them in the shape of Touch Bar replacing all the function keys is there to stay for the benefit of the more "casual" users that are more in line with Apple's traditional focus on multimedia production and presentation over content. Neural Engine is there to stay as well, though there is a small chance it will evolve into a different shape if there were a standard to get established for AI accelerators. I wouldn't bet my money on that happening though - if Apple cared much about standards they'd be using Vulkan instead of Metal, USB-C instead of Lightning (that is finally starting to change, thankfully, beginning with iPad), and so on and so forth.