My my the times they are a changin’. Looks like Apply might be developing and releasing their first ever multi-button mouse; a step that’s long long long overdue by Apple. Don’t get me wrong, Apple all but invented the mouse, and they’ve long championed an operating system that didn’t require contextual menus and second mouse buttons, but as technology has grown and changed, so has their operating system, and contextual menus have been an important feature since Mac OS 9 was released, and Mac OS has had multi-button support built in since OS X was unveiled; just plug in your third party multi-button mouse, hit the right mouse button, and there’s the menu.
Many Apple critics have used this as an object of ridicule against Apple, scorning them for choosing tradition and simplicity over functionality, in a debate that, like most Mac. vs. PC debates, comes down to personal preference, but it looks like between this rumor and the development and release of the Mac Mini that Apple is finally coming around to taking aim at the nitpicky critics if for no other reason than to shut them up. Good move, in my opinion.
Regardless, read the rumormill over at Apple Insider:
[ http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=951 ]