"Stewart Gordon" <smjg_1...@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:jfsvfh$14ek$1...@digitalmars.com... > On 27/01/2012 01:36, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > <snip> >> Heh, yea. That's something thing I always found funny: Apple always used >> to >> prepackage one-button mice with their right-click-capable OSX machines >> because "one-button mice are simpler and easier". But I never understood >> how >> "control-click" qualified as simpler or easier than "right-click". > <snip> > > A one-button mouse _is_ simpler than a mouse with three buttons and a > scroll wheel. > > OTOH, _using_ a one-button mouse is neither simpler nor easier.... >
Well, yea, but Apple's stated excuse for the one-button wasn't because they *are* simpler, but because they're allegedly "simpler *to use*". I guess I mistakenly left off the "to use" part up there. Whenever Apple says "simpler", they generally mean "simpler to use", even if it's flat-out false. > (The IT manager of my uni department back in the day told me (probably > speculatively) that the reason for fewer buttons is "less to go wrong".) > > Stewart.
