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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. Wow by tsa · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Amazing, a two-button mouse! And we thought Microsoft was innovative.

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    -- Cheers!

  2. Re:Pan wheel... by Alan+Partridge · · Score: 0, Redundant

    They already patented just such a device - it's basically a conventional mouse with an iPod style click wheel where the buttons and scroll wheel would be on an MS style mouse.

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    That was classic intercourse!
  3. Re:Pan wheel... by huntse · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Yawn. My Logitech three-button wheel mouse works just fine in OS X and guess what the wheel does?

  4. 10 years to get an extra button by nighty5 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    don't hold out for the wheel!!!!