Apple’s New Magic Mouse
Posted by Bobby Solomon • October 20, 2009 • Apple & Design
Earlier today Apple announced some revamped products including a new iMacs, MacBook, Mac Mini and my favorite, the Magic Mouse. While it may be ill-named, I think they may have just recreated the computer mouse as we know it. The new Magic Mouse now uses multi-touch sensors like the iPhone and the MacBooks track pad, plus the whole thing is a giant button. So now you can left and right click, and it knows what you’re trying to do. You can also scroll anywhere on it’s surface as well as use multi-touch gestures to do things like flip pages or browse Cover Flow in iTunes. Sadly this puppy is $69, which is pretty steep for a new mouse, though I don’t doubt that’s it’s not worth it. Although if it really shot out those blue waves like in the photo above, I’d buy it in a heartbeat.
John Gruber over on Daring Fireball pointed out that the Apple Remote has also been redesigned and is being sold separately for $18. While it’s nice looking, I’m not really sure why this was necessary, it seems like kind of a silly adjustment to a product that worked fine.
Bobby
I left my wallet AND my keys at home this morning. I guess I'm officially crazy or old (or both).
Apple needs to learn how a mouse as we curently know it functions – before trying to reinvent it.
Comment by Kristoffer — October 21, 2009 #
“While it’s nice looking, I’m not really sure why this was necessary, it seems like kind of a silly adjustment to a product that worked fine.”
very true, however, there could be the slightly off chance that Apple saw something in it that did not in fact work fine and decided to revamp it, whether customers noticed it or not.
Or maybe they just wanted to be brilliant. haha :)
Comment by Jasmine R — October 26, 2009 #