Touch-sensitive mice!

by Chris on Jan.08, 2009, under Apple, Computer

I stumbled across this bit of Apple awesomeness today. If you look at the huge splash image, you’ll note this text to the right of the mouse:

Touch-sensitive technology detects right and left click.

Oh? I’m sorry, I was under the impression that you manipulated mice with telepathy, not with touch! What a revolutionary invention!

So here’s the timeline as I see it:

Apple comes out with their first Mac with one mouse button to make things simple, because two buttons on a mouse is too much.
People complain, so they come out with a two-button mouse. People associate those with PCs and hate them.
Some years later, Apple invents a mouse that looks like it has one button but behaves like it has two, due to fancy “touch-sensitivity.”
Apple fanboys everywhere rejoice that they can now do two things with their mouse without being seen with a two-button mouse.

I predict that next year Apple will invent:

Oh, and by the way, the price tag on that fancy touch-sensitivity? $70.

Seth
January 8th, 2009 on 6:50 pm
I was so happy to read on and find that ‘awesomeness’ was indeed in the ironic sense of the word.

I did hold my breath one brief moment though Ya know, these fanboys…
Daniel McCullum
January 8th, 2009 on 8:41 pm
Even though I love apple products generally, the mighty mouse truly sucks (at least at a $70 price point). I can’t stand the way it handles secondary clicking. However, I will say that my MacBook has the best trackpad and clicking system on earth, even though it only has one visible button
JustACoer
January 10th, 2009 on 10:48 pm
Sceriously, the MacBook touch pad is a synaptics touch pad jest like all the other mid to upper end laptops have.

But you would have to use something other then a Mac to know that…
Asbjørn Ulsberg
January 27th, 2009 on 6:15 am
What makes the MacBook touchpad so excellent isn’t (only) the hardware, but the software. How the trackpad integrates into the operating system with gestures, two-finger movements and such is just incredible and leaves absolutely every other computer in the dust feature-wise.

The Mighty Mouse is truly awful. It’s possibly the worst piece of hardware Apple has ever created. I always use Logitech (or similar) mice with my Apple computers, because Apple’s mice suck so much.
Dan Mishler
February 11th, 2009 on 5:44 pm
Hah! Apple’s finally become more redundant than Microsoft!