There are:
- three-button mice – common in the unix world
- two-button mice – common in the windows world
- one-button mice – common (until notoriously recently) in the Apple world
- miceless (zero-mouse) mouse buttons – touchpoints
- mouseless buttonless mice – trackpads
- upside-down mice – trackballs
…so therefore the Apple Mightymouse is an upside-down mouse on top of another mouse.
Therefore should we expect to see mice with integral trackpads and no buttons, real soon now?
Or maybe someone will invent “fingermice” or “thimblemice” – five mini bluetooth-linked optical sensors, one per digit, which track an arbitrary surface and interpret a degree of 3-d motion, not to mention relative position of the fingers…
You could “pinch” objects on screen, have “chord” movements (Vulcan “live long and prosper” -> “logout”, for instance) – things like that.
It’d be a buttonless mouse.
“Ooh ooh what a brilliant idea, let’s go patent it.”
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