Redesigned Magic Mouse With Touch and Voice Controls Reportedly Coming in 2026

[jakey rolling]

I can’t stand not being able to go sideways

Me neither. That's why I use a MX Master.

 

[jakey rolling]

I would still argue that a scroll wheel is particularly important to gamers, though; offhand I cannot think of a computer game I've played in the past two decades which did not rely heavily upon it in some way.

Very true - the scroll wheel is very intuitive for many games where a quick-switch of gear is needed. What I was meaning to point out, though, is that the adaptation of games to using scroll wheels came a while after scroll wheels were already a ubiquitous mouse feature on PCs. There are probably a few hundred PC users who use a scroll wheel to scroll through documents, social media timelines, and discussion board comment sections for each gamer using a scroll wheel in a game.

Probably true of some people. Certainly not all, though; you only have to read through a thread like this one to discover the level of discontent with Apple's mice.

In a past life as a Mac salesperson, I sold a metric f-ton of third-party mice. Good to see that times haven't completely changed since back then.

 

[nathansz]

I hate them so much. Not being able to go sideways as a dealbreaker.

mx master has two options for sideways

either the thumb wheel, or hold shift and scroll

I wouldn't be able to use it if it didn't go sideways

I need to scroll through massive spreadsheets and it would be incredibly tedious with a trackpad or apple mouse

 

[nathansz]

So add force feedback. If it doesn’t go sideways, it doesn’t work for me.

why do you think scroll wheels don't go sideways?

 

[Rychiar]

why do you think scroll wheels don't go sideways?

Cus they’re wheels

 

[jakey rolling]

Cus they’re wheels

Well, aside from the fact that side-scroll wheels are a thing on some mice (including a particularly popular one in these comment threads), there are some mice that have tilt wheels for side-scrolling.

Logitech, Kensington, and Microsoft all had the whole side-scroll thing figured out long before Apple even realized that right-clicking was something users might want to do.

 

[JippaLippa]

2026 can't come soon enough.

 

[nathansz]

Cus they’re wheels

Press shift - scroll sideways

 

[MacFarmer]

"Hi Mouse, please go and charge yourself."

 

[Alameda]

The Mac Mini will get so small that it will just be a wireless mouse, with wireless video and wireless networking.

Laugh all you want. Then compare the specs of a 1987 Mac to an iPhone and figure out where we can be in ten years.

I remember when Apple gave us a prototype of the Quadra 950… it was a massive box, weighed nearly 40 pounds, cost around $12,000 and had a 33 MHz cpu.