Death of the Single-Button Mouse
I’ve been using OS X a lot for one of my projects. And I like it quite a bit. But here’s a funny thing about OS X and about Apple in general: OS X has native support for two-button, scroll-wheel, mice. But Macs still ship with a single-button mouse. What’s even more suprising is that you don’t need some sort of special “Mac only” mouse to make things happen. I plugged a Gateway branded, Logitech optical (USB, of course) mouse into an iBook running OS X (version 10.1) and it worked fine in Adobe Premiere 6.5 and Internet Explorer 5.1.
Back when I used Macs and little else, I found two-button “PC” mice annoying. But I’ve become spoiled by them. And the Mac equivilent (option-clicking or clicking-and-holding) is fairly clucky in comparison. So, why the holdout? Why not admit that single-button mice have had their day in the sun and start shipping Macs with better mice (Most Mac users I know already use a custom mouse of some sort. But why should they have to pay even more cash when they’re already shelling out a premium for Mac hardware?).