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" As people use phones in ever more sophisticated ways, the lack of cut & paste will become an issue just as big as the one button mouse." Wow, this is a tired
by jshen 18y ago
" As people use phones in ever more sophisticated ways, the lack of cut & paste will become an issue just as big as the one button mouse."
Wow, this is a tired meme. How is the one button mouse a big issue? You buy a new mouse. Hell, you don't even need to do that these days with imacs which come with a mighty mouse.
The lack of two buttons is a giant non-issue just like white space in python.
- stcredzero 18y agoYou've just proved my point. A lot of people want the two-button mouse. The Mighty Mouse is effectively a two button mouse. The one-button mouse is so undesirable people buy a different one. It's not an issue in using a mac. I never said it was. However, it reveals a cognitive blind-spot in Steve Jobs.
- jshen 18y agoActually, you said that the one button mouse was a BIG issue. It isn't, and that was my point.
- stcredzero 18y agoOkay, I did use the words "big issue." But I didn't mean that the way you took it. I'm a mac user since the 128k mac days as a child. It's not an actual big issue in most cases when using the OS and machine. It's perceived as a big issue by those used to something different. It's not a marketing plus -- it's actually the opposite! The fact that Jobs "stuck to his guns" for so long when it was apparent that the one button mouse was a big loser is the salient point. My point isn't that macs are crap because of the one-button mouse. It's clearly trivial in practice. The fact that Jobs kept up with that for so long, even featuring it as a key marketing point, in the face of overwhelming preferences the other way is a big potential Achilles' heel. (As I said before, it's also his strength. The trick would be to get him going against the grain in a way that actually matters.)