Reading these comments reminds me of another design flaw of the Mighty Mouse - the fact there is only one real button. With my previous 3 button mouse (which was awful in most respects) one good feature is that I could drag and drop an icon, and while dragging it I could use the middle button to switch applications. Using 2 buttons at the same time like this simply isn't possible with the Mighty Mouse.
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'Mighty Mouse' Trademark Awarded to Peripherals Manufacturer Man & Machine
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From the company's Mighty Mouse description on its web site -
"The Mighty Mouse 5 Waterproof, Hygienic Optical Mouse is specially designed for use in medical, industrial and marine applications. The mouse is full sized and features a 5-buttons designed for right & left clicking and scrolling up and down just like to a conventional non-waterproof mouse. "
One would think that the front page info would have had a proof-reader.
From the company's Mighty Mouse description on its web site -
"The Mighty Mouse 5 Waterproof, Hygienic Optical Mouse is specially designed for use in medical, industrial and marine applications. The mouse is full sized and features a 5-buttons designed for right & left clicking and scrolling up and down just like to a conventional non-waterproof mouse. "
One would think that the front page info would have had a proof-reader.
Newsflash:
inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa081898.htm
He also invented the GUI, or the concept at least. It was then used by Xerox. Indeed, Apple was the first home computer to use a GUI, but Apple didn't invent it (it a very common myth).
Always hated the name. I'd be much happier with "Apple Mouse Pro" or something that fits with their historically austere product naming.
And if it had ended with Engelbart or Xerox certainly no one ever would have heard of it. It wasn't seen in a consumer product until about 2 decades after he'd invented it.
There's a big leap from concept to adoption.
So in your eyes only well known companies should be able to retain a legal trademark.
Blame Apple's lawyers for not doing proper research.
Really? Are you seriously that naive?
I'm not sure how naive it really is. It's tempting to say that if Apple hadn't done it someone else would have soon after, and we'd be in the same place today. But when you look at how the GUI was received even by experts at the time, it was a tough sell. A GUI remained optional equipment for most of the personal computing world until Windows 95 forced the issue.
It's possible we'd have everything we have today, without Apple. It's also possible that the personal computing revolution never would have happened, and our homes would at best have very domain specific devices suited to a few tasks, with no third party software, or that we'd be driving to giant IBM "computing centers" to send an electronic mail message or scan a photograph.
good riddance
it was a retarded name to begin with. apple tries to be a little TOO clever w/ hardware sometimes. "airport" was brilliant. "mighty mouse" was not.
it was a retarded name to begin with. apple tries to be a little TOO clever w/ hardware sometimes. "airport" was brilliant. "mighty mouse" was not.
I think these qualify as "actual products".
The Linksys IPhone was released in 2004, more than 3 years before the Apple iPhone hit the streets.
I think they looked like they were designed by Nokia.
- IPhone Cordless Internet Telephony Kit -- CIT200
- IPhone Dual-Mode Internet Telephony Kit -- CIT300
- iPhone Dual-Mode Cordless Phone for Yahoo! Messenger with Voice -- CIT310
- IPhone Dual-Mode Internet Telephony Kit for Skype -- CIT400
- IPhone Wireless-G IP Phone -- WIP300
- IPhone Wireless-G IP Phone with Web Browser -- WIP330
- IPhone Wireless-G Phone for Skype -- WIP320
Whoa whoa my response was a tongue-in-cheek response to another poster in a (supposedly) clever way. Apparently I failed.
So in your eyes only well known companies should be able to retain a legal trademark.
Blame Apple's lawyers for not doing proper research.
Really? Are you seriously that naive?
Look at the history of their responses.. it's no use arguing. Like I said Lawyers and Consultants..
If so, I do apologize to you if I mistook your response as such.
No hard feeling I hope
I wouldn't go so far as to say Win 95 "forced the issue". A lot of people were already using the Windows 3.x UI pretty extensively by the time Win 95 came out. I think it did speed up the demise of text based only OS's for the average consumer.
Then again, I was a heavy System 7 user way back then, so I was already used to using a GUI daily.
I was merely pointing out the absurdity of his statement.
If not Apple, I'm sure Billy boy or someone else would have eventually gotten around to it.
Apple should scale down their device's footprint just a tad and call it Mini Mouse!
And make it even more annoying to use?
The Apple Mighty Mouse is the reason I learned "Keyboard Shortcuts"
If they made it taper at one end, they could call it "Goose Egg" that name fits the performance it gives.
That adolescent facial blemish (pimple) has to go. my greasy fingertip rendered it useless in no time.
I have to agree. Prior to Apple moving forward with the GUI-based OS, very few people knew what mouse even was. Microsoft didn't even start developing Windows until after Gates was given a preview of what Apple was doing, IIRC. Windowing systems existed on high-end workstations, but again, these were not mainstream consumer products.
So the original statement may be a bit hyperbolic, but not by much.
Well, if their products are any indication, utility supersedes design. They look useful for their purpose, but they are ugly, implying little concern for appearances.
Yet probably another company would've taken it. As I said, Apple indeed brought the mouse the personal computing, and I agree, there a big leap from concept to adoption... but the first and most important step is concept, otherwise there is no adoption. The one who REALLY deserves credit here is Engelbart. That guy IS truly AMAZING.
Apple. They don't need to google, just check the damn patent office. They should know how, they register all kind of trash just to hold the rights.
Apple should scale down their device's footprint just a tad and call it Mini Mouse!
Everytime you click it say, "Oooh Boy, hehe"