>Apple is a company that doesn’t have a great track record for mice though. Users have always complained about the lack of a right click button and scroll wheel

>Apple is a company that doesn’t have a great track record for mice though. Users have always complained about the lack of a right click button and scroll wheel. This was however one of the key drivers for the simplification of Mac OS. Steve Jobs insisted that if the OS should be simple enough to be operated with just one button. This sounds great in theory but I don't think it works as well in practice. The great thing about a right-click mouse button is contextual menus, aka locality. For anything on your screen, if you want to know everything it can do, just right click on it. There's no need to refer to a distant top menu bar, which only works when the app/window you're interested in is first focused, which is not something unsavy users easily pick up on. Just right click - it does both for you, focuses the window and provides all relevant functionality. Much simpler and easier for unsavy users to learn and remember. The fact that Apple had to add a pseudo-right-click functionality in the form of holding Option or Command or whatever while clicking should have been a hint that maybe lack of easy access to a universal context menu is a bug not a feature.