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And the worst part is, Apple has a lot more influence over software on MacOS than Dell does over software on Windows. Meaning Apple was able to influence at least some (though not most by any measure) 3rd party developers to make the touchbar context aware. I somehow doubt Dell had any such luck, so it would've been even worse than the Apple touchbar which was already shit.
In fact, had Apple included it in their whole lineup for a few years, it could've actually been useful. But Airs and 2 TBT3 13" Pros never got it, neither did the ubercrappy 12". A huge issue was the lack of adoption by developers (because to make it truly useful, they'd have to customize the touchbar for their application), but why would the developers have been motivated to do it if the thing wasn't even on every new device sold.