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As a 10 year old windows kid I was so turned off by having to use Macs in school because they lacked a right click feature. I wonder how many windows users thi

by mentos 11y ago

As a 10 year old windows kid I was so turned off by having to use Macs in school because they lacked a right click feature. I wonder how many windows users this cost them.

Killswitch 11y ago
All the Windows users who aren't capable of comprehending or understanding how the stuff they are using works.
- IkmoIkmo 11y ago
  I remember visiting the brother of my friend quite a few years ago, he had a big iMac in his living room and asked me to put on some music. So I hopped over and was dumbfounded on how to right click. So I asked my friend and he basically said 'there is no right click' (note, both of them were mac users, I wasn't), and then I said surely there must be a right click!? Then he asked his brother and he was like 'don't really know, there's a key combination or something you can press I think'. Anyway I put on the music and thought for years macs had no right click and never bothered to investigate further. I never had Apple money as a teenager and never used Macs, and given both of them had for years I thought they must've known. I'd been in the back of my mind ever since, hesistant to even consider switching to OS X. Until my early 20s when I needed a mac for work, looked into it and right clicked on my mac ever since. I wouldn't dare put a number on the amount of users they missed out on, but I'd likely have switched a few years earlier. That, the price positioning and the minor hassle around office as a student were the three biggest things preventing it. The first ended up being totally false, the other two became less important as I stopped being a student and started a career.
  - Killswitch 11y ago
    As a Windows user for 10+ years before going to Mac, I had always heard people make fun of Mac for having no right click, and thought it was possible. But then I used a Mac and instinctively right clicked because that's what I was used to. Low and behold, right click worked. If you don't investigate yourself, that's your problem.
  - ap3 11y ago
    Do you think people did not buy Macs because they thought it had no right-click capabilities?

by mentos 11y ago

As a 10 year old windows kid I was so turned off by having to use Macs in school because they lacked a right click feature. I wonder how many windows users this cost them.

Killswitch 11y ago

All the Windows users who aren't capable of comprehending or understanding how the stuff they are using works.

IkmoIkmo 11y ago
I remember visiting the brother of my friend quite a few years ago, he had a big iMac in his living room and asked me to put on some music. So I hopped over and was dumbfounded on how to right click. So I asked my friend and he basically said 'there is no right click' (note, both of them were mac users, I wasn't), and then I said surely there must be a right click!? Then he asked his brother and he was like 'don't really know, there's a key combination or something you can press I think'. Anyway I put on the music and thought for years macs had no right click and never bothered to investigate further. I never had Apple money as a teenager and never used Macs, and given both of them had for years I thought they must've known. I'd been in the back of my mind ever since, hesistant to even consider switching to OS X. Until my early 20s when I needed a mac for work, looked into it and right clicked on my mac ever since. I wouldn't dare put a number on the amount of users they missed out on, but I'd likely have switched a few years earlier. That, the price positioning and the minor hassle around office as a student were the three biggest things preventing it. The first ended up being totally false, the other two became less important as I stopped being a student and started a career.
- Killswitch 11y ago
  As a Windows user for 10+ years before going to Mac, I had always heard people make fun of Mac for having no right click, and thought it was possible. But then I used a Mac and instinctively right clicked because that's what I was used to. Low and behold, right click worked. If you don't investigate yourself, that's your problem.
- ap3 11y ago
  Do you think people did not buy Macs because they thought it had no right-click capabilities?