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Apple Developing Two-Button Mouse

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the doth-mine-eyes-deceive-me dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Always the innovator, Apple is rumored to be developing a two-button mouse! Personally, I don't think it will catch on. Two buttons will be way too confusing for your average user." A few users noted a related Slashdot story from awhile back that discusses why Apple has historically avoided the two-button mouse. The article also mentions a revision to the AirPort Base Station with built-in optical audio.

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  1. heh, I can hear the Windows user saying it now... by ip_freely_2000 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "Apple is introducing a two button mouse just now? Why Windows had that in 1989!"


    Actually....As a WinXP user, I will welcome my new two button mouse overlords.

  2. Re:Predictable timing... by MouseR · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Raskin WAS responsible for the one-button mouse. He later admitted he was wrong about it.

    Either ways, Raskin was a pumped-up snobby idiot who only made the news by criticising everything everybody else did, including the Mac wich was removed from his hands before completion (Jobs took over the Mac project when he saw the Lisa wasn't entirely a success).

  3. Re:In other news by harrkev · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Slashdot gets sued for giving out trade secrets. Apple demands to know who leaked this information, which would have revolutionized the computer world as we know it.
    Microsoft, being the copying thieves that they are, will jump all over this and release their OWN two-button mouse soon. Just you watch. They stole every other good idea from Apple (well, except for security and stability, which they still have not stolen from anybody yet).
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  4. Re:Insanely Insane Apple Design Decisions by justforaday · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I guess after a few days of searching you couldn't find the "Eject Disk" item under the Special menu, huh? (this is assuming it was pre-OS X)

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