Apple Developing Two Button Mouse?
According to the rumor site, the reason for the departure from the single-mouse stance stems from Apple's recent foray into attracting the low-end PC market with the Mac Mini.
One teaser quote included claims "Jaws will drop". No timeframe for introduction is provided. Two buttoned mice have been long rumored from Apple.
The earliest in our archives date back to 2002. Meanwhile, a October 2000 Wired article speculating the introduction of a two-button Apple mouse for the (then) beta Mac OS X.
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Further fueling expectations are the recent price drops for the current one-button mice. ($29 for the wired mouse and $59 for the wireless mouse).
I don't get it, though. Power users won't be happy with anything less than 6 buttons, and Joe email n' AIM will be just fine with the single.
Updated Express, though... hmm... maybe the market will be right for me to pick up an old one.
edit: it's a pity this thread will die when story gets put on the front page.
edit: it's a pity this thread will die when story gets put on the front page.
Arn will likely link this thread to the main story...that is what he did with the last thread I posted that was up before the main story.
Wow.
I don't get it, though. Power users won't be happy with anything less than 6 buttons, and Joe email n' AIM will be just fine with the single.
Updated Express, though... hmm... maybe the market will be right for me to pick up an old one.
edit: it's a pity this thread will die when story gets put on the front page.
I think the whole idea would be to go after the ignorant masses who don't get the one-button thing (or think the one button mouse is inferior).
I personally love the one-button mouse; I think it is one of the things that makes a Mac a Mac.
I think it is one of the things that makes a Mac a Mac.
I agree with you. It's almost a unique "feature" of a Mac. It would be kind of weird to have a Mac mouse with two buttons. But still, it may get more people to somehow switch.
Daniel
I don't get it. Why release a two-button mouse now, after all these years with a one-button mouse? What has changed that Apple thinks it's suddenly necessary to sell a two-button mouse? And will it have a scroll wheel? Personally--and I think this is probably true for most Mac users--I've gotten so used to having just one button that switching to a two-button mouse would just be uncomfortable and I would probably never use the second button.
Eh, well here is what the article says: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.
I don't really follow this logic, though. Two-button mice have always worked with Macs, so I don't think that would stop people from switching. Also, isn't the whole point of the Mac mini to use your old PC mouse if that's what you want.
According to AppleInsider, Apple is readying a two-button, wireless optical mouse for release.
Further fueling expectations are the recent price drops for the current one-button mice. ($29 for the wired mouse and $59 for the wireless mouse).
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