Apple Apple developing two-button mouse

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  1. TekMonkey

    TekMonkey I enjoy cheese.

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    http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=951

    :clap:

    I saw a mouse that looks just like the Apple mouse, but with two buttons and a scroll wheel, I forget who makes it. But I wonder how different Apple's will be?
     
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  2. MaplinMan

    MaplinMan What's a Dremel?

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    lol!!! maybe in 7 years they will 'develop' a mouse wheel as well (it wouldnt be the first time they tried to reinvent the wheel :duh: )

    why dont they "develop" something new instead?
     
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  3. Rich_13

    Rich_13 What's a Dremel?

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    never know, they might even go after the mx1000 etc and try and aim it at pc users as well.
     
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  4. scotty6435

    scotty6435 What's a Dremel?

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    [​IMG]

    Not great but certainly not bad for £5 AND it's got a wheel and glows blue! :D
     
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  5. K

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    http://www.dvforge.com/themouse.shtml ??

    Comes wireless too, I want one.
     
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  6. Haddy

    Haddy World Domination

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    Im a big fan of apple but their prices on their accessories are freakin nuts...

    Not really all that concerened about the color of my mouse...

    Joe Blow: "Your mouse doesnt match you mac!!"
    Me: *places hand over mouse* "..aaannnddd thennnn??"
     
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  7. Fly

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    Comes with an inbuilt Frappuccino holder apparently... :hip:
     
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  8. Gordy

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    Two buttons is so 1980's! They have to beat the mx1000 for it to be important to me. Can't believe this is even news, if apple had a clue and weren't so stubborn this would have been made years ago.
     
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  9. -=ice=-

    -=ice=- What's a Dremel?

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    A 2 or 3 button mouse would be cool, but to be honest, i dont use the right button much on any of my macs, if anything the middle one gets used more, to open a link in a new tab

    However, on the PC, i use the right button rather alot, mainly because the program writers insist on hiding commands in the right click menu


    It would be cool, if apple continue what they started in macos in 10.3, the action button, and add a button to the mouse to open the menu

    [​IMG]
     
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    i'm guessing my last post was just deleted, so heres a more serious one.

    The idea of using more than one button, is a key user interface concept.

    look at the PDA, touch + hold.

    the acorn, middle button for context, right for selection (think shift + left in windows)
    Acorn been the genious of user interface (anti-aliasing on all text in 1991 on 16 colour systems as standard because their hardware was fast enough + well written).

    This ment in every application you didn't need to learn how to select text in the strange manner us windows or mac users have to, its much better than learning a keyboard combo to new users, and lets pros do things far faster.
     
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    :hehe: :hehe:
     
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    MaplinMan What's a Dremel?

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    the apple website says the mouse has a mirror on the bottom so you can quickly check ur makeup.

    and they had to market it under the name iPointer because most mac users are scared of mice.
     
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  13. TekMonkey

    TekMonkey I enjoy cheese.

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    That's exactly the reason it is news now...Apple has been known (and criticized) for their single-button mouse, and now they're finally giving in and adding a button. :D
     
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  14. MaplinMan

    MaplinMan What's a Dremel?

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    the thing i hate with computers is each different periphial is stuck in a different era of fashion history.
    the mouse is in the late 80's "excess" era where it was all about more features than you ever need...

    and keyboards have gone all 1992 with their minimalistic 'less is more' styling..

    pretty soon we will live in a world when the mouse has more buttons than a keyboard and then one day apple will have the bright 'idea' of letting us browse with the keyboard and thats the day im going to shoot myself.
     
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  15. TekMonkey

    TekMonkey I enjoy cheese.

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    You mean you don't browse with your keyboard?
     
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  16. MaplinMan

    MaplinMan What's a Dremel?

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    yeh i browse dos shell with it
    mac users ever heard of dos?
    if not dont worry im sure apple will 'develop' it in a few years... they will probably called it iShell and charge users 50p every time they type dir.
     
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  17. K

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    UNIX Terminal...
     
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  18. Lorquis

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    And yet again, another mac related pwning courtesy of K
     
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  19. MaplinMan

    MaplinMan What's a Dremel?

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    and yet again, another mac related asskiss courtesy of lourquis
     
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    DreamTheEndless Gravity hates Bacon

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    [SARCASM]Come on now, we all know dos shell is more powerfull than command line unix...[/SARCASM]
    :D
     
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