Here's what absolutely kills me here, folks. I think very few people at this point would argue that a one-button mouse is somehow more intuitive or user-friendly than a 2 button mouse.
When using anything, ask yourself, "What's the meaning of what I want to do here"? With a two-button mouse, the left one is "select or execute", and the right one is "give me a choice of things that I could do with this object". With a one-button mouse, the latter option is gone, and users are left out in the cold. One Apple salesman once asked me if I "knew about" the Apple-click option, which would bring up the context menu. "Knew about"? This is about as ringing an endorsement of a user interface as "you'll get used to it after a while".
By the way, Steve Jobs himself knew the superiority of the 2-button mouse when he put it on the NeXT cube back in friggin' 1988. Here is a picture of it, if you don't believe me.
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c =277&st=1
Apple, ship a damned scrollmouse with your computers, if you want people to switch. Everyone's used to it now, and your OS is designed for it. Stop this madness.
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Here's what absolutely kills me here, folks. I think very few people at this point would argue that a one-button mouse is somehow more intuitive or user-friendly than a 2 button mouse. When using anything, ask yourself, "What's the meaning of what I want to do here"? With a two-button mouse, the left one is "select or execute", and the right one is "give me a choice of things that I could do with this object". With a one-button mouse, the latter option is gone, and users are left out in the cold. One Apple salesman once asked me if I "knew about" the Apple-click option, which would bring up the context menu. "Knew about"? This is about as ringing an endorsement of a user interface as "you'll get used to it after a while". By the way, Steve Jobs himself knew the superiority of the 2-button mouse when he put it on the NeXT cube back in friggin' 1988. Here is a picture of it, if you don't believe me. http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c =277&st=1
Apple, ship a damned scrollmouse with your computers, if you want people to switch. Everyone's used to it now, and your OS is designed for it. Stop this madness.