Apple Applies For Rotary Mouse Patent

Dregs of Tar writes "According to an article at The Mac Observer, Apple has applied for a patent on an interesting new mouse idea. A rotary disc on the surface of the mouse can be pushed straight down as a mouse button, tilted forward or back to scroll vertically, and tilted side to side for horizontal scrolling. In other words, it's a rotary scroll wheel! Could it be so? Could we soon see Apple-branded, multibutton, scrolling mice?"

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Re:Is there a reason...

[johny_qst]

Of course... you have seen ellen feiss haven't you. Her reasoning for choosing a mac was it was easy cuz she was like typing a paper on a pc and it went beep beep beep and no more paper.... so now she uses a mac and the world is wonderful. For people like this handling multiple buttons on the mouse is like whoa too involving. I think apple may be moving way too fast for its userbase on this one...