Apple falls into "build a better mouse" trap
Apple falls into "build a better mouse" trap
The new mouse looks like a standard one-click Mac mouse, but it has touch-sensitive sides so that it can detect a right- or left-click, and it features a tiny gray trackball that serves as a scrollwheel. Some other small buttons on the side, apparently, let you access features unique to Mac OS X Tiger. Why Mighty Mouse, instead of a standard, easily recognizable mouse with two buttons and some sort of pan-scrolling capability, the likes of which exist across the peripherals universe? Well, obviously, Apple says, those mice are too hard to use. Seriously. A mouse is so hard to use that you have to go and design a new, spectacularly unergonomic one with buttons in places mice have never had buttons, instead of just putting one extra button on the existing mouse? I will sincerely never understand this company.