“What are the merits [of the hockey puck mouse]?” Steve Jobs explained to me that it was ergonomically superior to mice on which you rest your entire hand. The

“What are the merits [of the hockey puck mouse]?” Steve Jobs explained to me that it was ergonomically superior to mice on which you rest your entire hand. The ‘Apple USB mouse’ was meant to be used without putting your hand down at all. That way, you wouldn't put pressure on your wrist and you wouldn't hold your mouse in the same position for too long. At the time, the iMac had been out for 5 months (the first Mac that came with the Apple USB mouse). So SJ had received plenty of responses about it already, and no doubt he knew what the press had written about it. To me, he said “They'll get used to it, this is a better mouse.” As we talked, I started to believe it, and by the end of our conversation, I was convinced that yes, this is revolutionary and necessary. (I was 18 years old at the time, I had recently moved to the US, and MacWorld Expo was the biggest event I had ever been.) A year later, Apple replaced the model with the more conventional ‘Apple Pro mouse’.