chrishowie.com » Apple http://www.chrishowie.com The best laid plans are in my other pants Tue, 15 Nov 2011 20:20:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Touch-sensitive mice! http://www.chrishowie.com/2009/01/08/touch-sensitive-mice/ http://www.chrishowie.com/2009/01/08/touch-sensitive-mice/#comments Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:35:08 +0000 Chris http://www.chrishowie.com/?p=178 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:

  1. Apple comes out with their first Mac with one mouse button to make things simple, because two buttons on a mouse is too much.
  2. People complain, so they come out with a two-button mouse. People associate those with PCs and hate them.
  3. 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.”
  4. 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:

  • Touch-sensitive keyboards,
  • precision air-compressing speakers,
  • and light-emitting monitors.

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

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