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. The Secondary Click: The tapping of either the right-hand or left-hand half of the Magic Mouse indicates a secondary mouse click. You can select which half is the secondary, and by extension, which half is the primary. Scroll: A single finger moving vertically across the surface will scroll a window up or down, depending on the direction of the gesture. Likewise, moving a finger left to right on the Magic Mouse’s surface performs a horizontal scroll. You can combine the vertical and horizontal scroll to move a window in a circular fashion by simply drawing a circle on the mouse’s surface.
You also have the option to enable momentum, which lets you flick your finger and have a window scroll continue for a period of time after you’ve stopped moving your finger. Screen Zoom: Zooming is enabled by using a modifier key, usually the control key, while performing a vertical scroll gesture. If you hold the modifier key down, the window will zoom in or out, depending on the direction of your scroll. This is probably the result of the difficulty from keeping both fingers in contact with the surface for a side-to-side swipe. It’s just not a natural motion to perform while maintaining a grip on the mouse. On the other hand, if you use the two-finger swipe without holding onto the Magic Mouse, it works the way it should, every time.
This is fine for moving page by page through large documents or photo galleries, but it’s pretty useless for the frequently used forward and back commands in and Finder windows.
According to an interview by with a former Apple ME, Abraham Farag, the Pro Mouse’s design was born unintentionally. During a design review, Steve Jobs was shown six different models of mice to evaluate. But Jobs was instead drawn to a seventh design, an unfinished model with the buttons yet to be built in. Jobs thought the buttonless design was brilliant, and the design team played along, pretending that it was their intention from the beginning. This unfinished design became the foundation of future Apple Mice. Regardless of what you may think of the Apple Pro Mouse, I believe that there’s something admirable about its stubbornness.
It’s like a masterful chef that’s owned a restaurant for decades and refuses to change their ways ( comes to mind). If everyone was that stubborn, society wouldn’t function, but it’s these people with strong beliefs that help the rest of society ground their opinions. When so much of the world produces apologetic, impartial products, we need some stuff that pushes our notions forward. The mice that Apple made were just that. The key to the Apple Pro Mouse’s beauty is in the layering of materials. The crystal clear shell incases a translucent graphite housing which hints at the inner workings of the mouse.
Transparent housings were popular but in most cases, improperly done. Here, it’s done tastefully and these layers add depth and visual richness.
It’s a work of art. This layering actually reminds me of marbles I had as a kid which I would hold up to the sun to examine their swirls of layered color. There was something incredible about these swirls, they were like encapsulated flames. The Apple Pro Mouse does something similar - in encapsulates technology. But in terms of visual richness, the Apple Pro Mouse is still in a league of its own. This mouse remains as one of the most magical products I’ve ever seen.
And the magic doesn’t just come from its mystifying appearance; it’s magical because it exists. For most products, clarity becomes fogged up with doubt and lack of ambition.
They have no opinion, are overly apologetic as they are designed to satisfy too many people. Steve Jobs didn’t believe in this approach. He made the zero button mouse a reality, and in tandem created the most simple, elegant operating system possible.
The Apple Pro Mouse wants to exist in the future, where everything is intuitive. It’s so much of an bullish product that it wasn’t till the Magic Mouse that we truly understood what its intentions were. It’s a huge statement but makes no excuses for believing in what’s right.
And this truly epitomizes what made Apple so special under Jobs. Let go of your hate. Accept what it is, let go of what it was, and embrace what it has become.