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Re:Apple Park Opens to Employees in April by PerryCox on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @10:58AM (#13706440)
>Imagine a world without Apple computers pushing the envelope. We'd still be using wired mice and ugly black boxes.

Wow talk about drinking the kool aid. Apple did not invent the wireless mouse, that honor belongs to Logitech[1].

[1]:http://www.macworld.com/article/1137400/input-devices/mouse4...

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Re:Apple Park Opens to Employees in April by trevyn on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @11:02AM (#13706475)
Invent != popularize.
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Re:Apple Park Opens to Employees in April by wlesieutre on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @11:23AM (#13706629)
I still see far more wireless Logitech mice than Apple mice, so I wouldn't give them credit for popularizing it either.

Once every few months you'll run into someone who uses a Magic Mouse, but it's practically a novelty item.

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Re:Apple Park Opens to Employees in April by wilg on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @11:47AM (#13706863)
most common != popularize
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Re:Apple Park Opens to Employees in April by wlesieutre on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @12:02PM (#13706998)
Which wireless Apple mouse are you supposing inspired everyone jump on the wireless mouse train? The 1-button version that cost $100? Or the followup Mighty Mouse with its weird omnidirectional scrolling dust trap that nobody liked?

As far as I remember, every Mac user outside of schools was already on the Logitech mouse train back then, thanks to Apple's stubborn insistence that 1-button was the platonic ideal of computer input devices.

Personally, I had the Logitech S530 Cordless Desktop for Mac, which was a keyboard/mouse set that came out around the same time as the wireless Mighty Mouse did. The 8 buttons were great for Exposé shortcuts.

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