In praise of Apple's horrible mice<article>
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Over the last twenty years, Apple’s hardware has steadily conquered every aspect of my computing life. As I type this, my laptop, keyboard, monitor, phone, and tablet all sport the company’s iconic logo—a reminder of how successful the folks from Cupertino are at designing electronics that I, and many others, want to use.</p><p>
The one notable exception to this rule is the humble mouse, a device that the company has almost pathologically attempted to reinvent time and time again since it first introduced one with the Lisa back 1983—in the process creating an almost perfect metaphor for why the tech giant is so successful at design.</p><h2>One man, one love, one button</h2>
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Apple’s fixation with mouse buttons is legendary. While PC manufacturers gave adding more buttons little thought and, indeed, believed that doing so would increase the user’s productivity, Steve Jobs waged an endless war against the additional complexity that he believed came with having more than one button.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2137503/in-praise-of-apples-horrible-mice.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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In praise of Apple's horrible mice
