I got a Magic Mouse as soon as I could, because my mighty mouse's scrollball would get clogged up and need cleaning annoyingly often. I agree that the Magic Mouse works much better than the Mighty Mouse (now just Apple Mouse), and I'd go so far as to say that it's the best mouse I've ever tried.
However, I can't really see adding any more gestures to the Magic Mouse. It would be too easy to do a gesture by mistake. Right now, I sometimes accidentally scroll when a finger grazes the mouse or just gets too close. This is not particularly disruptive to recover from, but the same probably wouldn't be true for any additional gestures. The two-finger side swipes for forward and back are ergonomically different enough from the other gestures that you aren't likely to do them by accident, but three- or four-finger gestures would simultaneously be difficult to perform on an unanchored mouse and too easily performed by accident. I could however see a device that bears the same relationship to the Magic Mouse that a trackball bears to a standard mouse, that is, essentially a standalone multitouch trackpad with a non-slip base. Then you could do all the 1,2,3, 4-finger gestures that you can do with a multitouch trackpad and more besides. I could also see a bigger version of this being popular with some handicapped people. > From: tjpa <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Apple Magic Mouse > > On Nov 26, 2009, at 6:14 PM, Tony B wrote: >> Looks interesting, but I'm still leery of touchpads in general. >> Anyway, since there's no version available for Windows yet, it's >> useless on most systems. > > And a wall of patents will assure that there never will be! Ho ho ho! > >> I'm not sure what you mean about 'growing' gestures. All the ones I've >> seen are gestures that have been used for ages. Either by moving the >> whole mouse, or just the scroll wheel. > > Two finger drags, three finger drags, probably four fingers some day. > Different gestures. I'm told the iPad will bring an explosion of new > gestures. Won't work with Vista or W7. > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
