Yeah, considering Apple's force feeding of the NEED to
use the mouse goes back to the original Mac.
When Apple did tests to see how users would take to
the mouse for navigating their computers, they found
that the majority of the people still preferred to use
the keyboard. The people would use the arrow keys to
cursor up and down the screen and quite honestly, they
found it to be tedious! When the demonstrators
indicated that they should use the mouse to move
around the screen, the test group looked on with blank
stares...they didn't understand..
As a result, Apple's fist thing was to remove the
arrow keys from the keyboard. They also created a
special keyboard plug to prevent people from plugging
in keyboards WITH arrow keys.
Apple's decision was you use the mouse, or
nothing...you have no choice!
Kinda funny when you consider Apple's marketing
campagain on freedom of choice!
Ed
web/gadget guru
--- Jon Glass <jonglass_at_usa.net> wrote:
>
> on 11/8/01 12:30 AM, SlashDevNull at
> SlashDevNull_at_mac.com wrote:
>
> > Why do you think Apple spends so
> > much time and effort on the display, mouse, and
> keyboard.
>
> And the time they skimped--the original iMac--it was
> the one thing virtually
> everybody complained about. :-)
> --
> -Jon Glass
> Krakow, Poland
> <mailto:jonglass_at_usa.net>
> <mailto:glasshaus5_at_aol.com>
> "Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it
> is force! Like fire, it
> is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."
> --George Washington, first president of the USA
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