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Re:Open Letter from the OpenID Foundation to Apple Regarding... by abledon on Saturday June 29, 2019 @08:29AM (#20312191)
Tried the 1 button mouse in an apple store yesterday, holy S* the page scrolling feature is so bad, you have to 'track pad' it in a limited space on the 3d curved surface. soooo annoying.
Re:Open Letter from the OpenID Foundation to Apple Regarding... by huffmsa on Saturday June 29, 2019 @08:31AM (#20312209)
The laptop trackpads with 2 finger touch are great. Having to consciously think "I need to click in the bottom right corner to right click" on non-apple laptop is cumbersome.

It's never felt as natural on their mice though.

Re:Open Letter from the OpenID Foundation to Apple Regarding... by seba_dos1 on Saturday June 29, 2019 @08:36AM (#20312238)
I haven't seen a non-apple laptop where two-finger right click didn't work for years.
Re:Open Letter from the OpenID Foundation to Apple Regarding... by huffmsa on Saturday June 29, 2019 @08:47AM (#20312277)
It does work but I've yet to encounter one that works as well as the Apple one. Like how the 1 button mouse works, but the two button one works more better.

Though I was moreso talking about the OG hockey puck that shipped with the OG iMac.

Re:Open Letter from the OpenID Foundation to Apple Regarding... by danaris on Saturday June 29, 2019 @10:02AM (#20312630)
The hockey puck was bad, sure, but your criticism only mentioned the buttons.

You realize that Apple was doing one-button mice from before (almost) everyone else was doing mice, period, yes?

Re:Open Letter from the OpenID Foundation to Apple Regarding... by seba_dos1 on Saturday June 29, 2019 @06:26PM (#20315187)
I'm using Apple touchpad right now (and a non-Apple one too, right next to it) and it's nothing special. The only thing that makes it pleasant to use is the way gestures are implemented in macOS - but it has nothing to do with two-finger click. This works just as well, or even slightly better, on my non-Apple laptop with GNU/Linux and it's been a while since I've encountered a touchpad that would be worse in this regard (they definitely existed many years ago though).
Re:Open Letter from the OpenID Foundation to Apple Regarding... by gbmor on Sunday June 30, 2019 @02:15AM (#20316664)
On my Thinkpad X240's touchpad, 2-finger touch is quite natural feeling. To right click, I just have the second finger touching somewhere in quadrant I. Just an example.