Oh Apple, why can’t you just make a regular mouse? The 360-degree scrollwheel I like (although the contact point seems a bit tiny), but what’s with all this touch sensitive stuff? People need feedback when they click. And the giant top of the mouse being one big button doesn’t and never did work.
The first thing people do when they get a Mac is throw away the mouse and buy themselves a better one. Give up on your unusable single-click mouse, Apple.
As my coworker says, next down the line is going to be an Apple keyboard missing the “P” and “R” keys, cause you just don’t need them. Want to type a “P”? Hold down option and press “L”.
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First of all, I’m all about the one-button mice, and plenty of others are. People who migrate from pc to Mac perhaps throw away their mice, but Mac users generally don’t mind the 1 button that much, at least I don’t. Also, if the touch-sensitive pad is what I hope it is, it may very well have feedback. There’s a technology called “haptic touch” which makes a screen feel like it’s got buttons, there’s rumors about it being used on the Revolution controller, and I hope that Apple is using it here. I actually don’t think I like the new mouse that much, I like that they kept the general design philosophy of the 1-button mouse for the most part, but the scroll button throws the whole thing off. I never liked those button mice in the little mini pc laptops, and I think this is going to turn out the same. I like being able to mash my mouse in any location and have it register a click, and I think this mouse has gone away from that idea, which I dislike. But I’ll have to try it and find out. Meanwhile, I’m happy with my pro mouse, and will be for a while I’m sure.
The design philosophy of the 1-button mouse is something along the lines of, “Any more than one is too complicated for our users.” Yet for some odd reason there isn’t a market for a 1-button mouse, because, surprise, nobody wants one.
In my office of 20, where about 13 of them use a mac, only one uses the default Apple mouse. Apple’s just being stubborn, and what we have here is the Mighty Mouse, a compromise of their “design philosophy” and finally giving in to giving users more than 1-button. They just decided to make it even more different.