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*Flash* Apple considering a two button mouse!

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A Two-Button Apple Mouse

In other news, Hell has not frozen over yet, but it very well may.

According to sources who have so far filed accurate reports on Apple's future hardware plans, the company is feverishly working on a two-button wireless optical mouse that it intends to release.

Apple enthusiasts have longed for an Apple-branded two-button mouse for over a decade, but their requests have gone unanswered. So what has changed? According to sources, 'it's the company."

With Apple now profiting from low-priced consumer electronics as it makes a push to reclaim market share from Windows, a two-button mouse is 'almost an essential,' sources said.

It's unclear when the computer maker plans to introduce the mouse. Insiders warned that anticipation may continue to build for months as the company perfects the product.

Apple has just recently reduced the price of its wired mouse to $29 and its wireless optical mouse to $59. The two-button wireless optical mouse would likely debut at the $69 price point once reserved for the company's current wireless mouse.

"Jaws will drop," said one insider.

http://appleinsider.com/article.php?id=951
 
i am surprise people still worship apple.

i mean i would rather have a microsoft monopoly than an apple monopoly. apple controls its hardware, software and eventually kills 3rd party stuff(like those widgets or whatever the hell they were).

 
I read a while back a rumour that they were thinking of incorporating an iPod-style scroll wheel into their mice instead of a regular scrollwheel. That would allow limitless scrolling with one smooth movement, although I'm not sure how they'd design it such that it wasn't a handful. Apple like to go with fingertip-held mice rather than palm-held...
 
Holy Sh!t a 2 button mouse from APPLE.ca Fv(K no, i am going to buy a apple computer right now. WOW, 2 button mouse,

Well all my nerd apple one mouse buttons are going to a part of the past now.
 
The first time I saw an Apple Mouse I thought, WTF, this looks like a bar of soap. My second thought was, how do I click. There were these rubber grips on the side, and I'm trying to click those. Hmm, That doesn't work. Finally I figured out you just push the whole front end down.
 
It's amazing what geeks will attack to feel elite. It's a freaking mouse! I still use my one-button mouse and have never had the urge to get another one. I only use 2 of the 802 buttons on my PC mouse, anyways.
 
Originally posted by: UglyCasanova
I've had this mouse for my Powerbook for quite some time. And by my count it has 8 buttons and a scroll wheel.
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Yippie, and you had to spend $75 on it, no one said you CAN'T get a good mouse for mac, but for the average user that doesn't want to buy a mouse? It'd be AWESOME if the computer at least came with one that wasn't straight out of the 60's.
 
Apple has just recently reduced the price of its wired mouse to $29 and its wireless optical mouse to $59. The two-button wireless optical mouse would likely debut at the $69 price point once reserved for the company's current wireless mouse.
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That's Apple for you. $10 more for one extra button.
 
Originally posted by: ScottSwingleComputers
The first time I saw an Apple Mouse I thought, WTF, this looks like a bar of soap. My second thought was, how do I click. There were these rubber grips on the side, and I'm trying to click those. Hmm, That doesn't work. Finally I figured out you just push the whole front end down.
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Which makes you about what, 15 years old?
 
Originally posted by: notfred
Originally posted by: ScottSwingleComputers
The first time I saw an Apple Mouse I thought, WTF, this looks like a bar of soap. My second thought was, how do I click. There were these rubber grips on the side, and I'm trying to click those. Hmm, That doesn't work. Finally I figured out you just push the whole front end down.
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Which makes you about what, 15 years old?
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No, but you must be.
 
Originally posted by: Deeko
Originally posted by: UglyCasanova
I've had this mouse for my Powerbook for quite some time. And by my count it has 8 buttons and a scroll wheel.
Click to expand...

Yippie, and you had to spend $75 on it, no one said you CAN'T get a good mouse for mac, but for the average user that doesn't want to buy a mouse? It'd be AWESOME if the computer at least came with one that wasn't straight out of the 60's.
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I didn't pay $75, and hell a cheap $2 mouse will work. But I agree though, Apple does need to get with the times. 🙂

I just got it because my lappy has built in bluetooth so when I'm out and about it really is a true wireless mouse.
 
My question is why did it take Apple so long to finally get around to this? For a company all about having the newest gadgets and toys on their machines, this one seems long overdue. And this is coming from a Mac user--still some things about the company that don't quite make sense. Maybe Jobs works and lives in a different world than the rest of us.
 
Originally posted by: Czar
we will see apple owners running into walls soon because of the complexity overload
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Conjures up that Far Side cartoon, about the "school for the gifted", and everyone is still standing around outside the door, because they apparently can't figure out how to open it or something.

No doubt current one-button Apple mouse owners will have extreme difficulty, deciding whether to double-click, or right-click, to access things.
 
Originally posted by: UglyCasanova
I've had this mouse for my Powerbook for quite some time. And by my count it has 8 buttons and a scroll wheel.
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So did the OS automatically detect and support functions for the "extra" buttons, or did you have to load 3rd party software to set them up?
 
Originally posted by: UglyCasanova
I've had this mouse for my Powerbook for quite some time. And by my count it has 8 buttons and a scroll wheel.
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Yeah, but the one they're talking about is an APPLE mouse, don't you know that makes all the difference?
 
The OS automatically detects the functions for my extra button mouse. Generally speaking drivers are a thing of the past with OSX, at least in my experience. The OS recognizes whatever hardware you connect to it and is ready to go.
 
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