Someone ignorant, talks about Magic mouse

[jlpoore89]

I can also make it click if I sit on it. The click is the result of pushing down on the mouse, not a result of a guide to let you know where you clicked it.

Tactile feedback is so that you can reproduce the exact same result every time from touch without looking. Take away your guide keys on the keyboard and see how well you type without looking. Just because you can click it, doesn't mean you're always clicking it in the same spot.

The key word in the touch sensitivity is that "it" knows where you click.

Not really. Tactile and haptic feedback are essentially the same thing. And a touchscreen with haptic feedback vibrates when you touch a "button" on the screen confirming that you touched the button. It makes it "feel like" you really touched a button. But even with this technology you still have no clue where you touched.

Tactile feedback is just the association of touching/clicking it has nothing to do with location. And after a few days with the Magic Mouse I have yet to accidentally right click when I intended to left and vice versa.

And if I click and get a right click "I" know where I clicked. It's kind of like typing on one of those laser projection keyboards. If you know how to touch type you can still type very easily even though there are no physical buttons whatsoever, and that thing has ZERO tactile feedback of any kind.

 

[killerrobot]

Tactile feedback is just the association of touching/clicking it has nothing to do with location. And after a few days with the Magic Mouse I have yet to accidentally right click when I intended to left and vice versa.

Tell that to a blind man reading braille.

Also, the mouse isn't a touch screen and doesn't vibrate. I can touch the magic mouse wherever I want to and it doesn't ever "click" until I apply pressure.

Perhaps, I'm splitting hairs, but I agree with the article that there is no "tactile" feedback on the magic mouse.

All this said, I do like the magic mouse way better than the mighty mouse. What a disaster that is/was.