Re:Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore princi...
by Razengan on Monday December 23, 2019 @10:51AM
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> A couple of decades ago I worked at a company that had about 200 Mac's and a similar number of PC's. One of our favorite practical jokes was to disable the mouse on Mac's. The victim quite literally could not do a thing with the computer until the mouse was re-enabled. In sharp contrast to this most Windows users could function reasonably well without the mouse.
I don't mind this that much. It just shows that Apple elevated the mouse to an essential input system that must always be available, as opposed to being an optional accessory, and designed the system around that requirement.
You can make the same argument about not being able to do anything with a mouseless computer if the keyboard was disabled too.
In fact, even if the keyboard was unavailable, you could still use a computer with just a mouse + onscreen keyboard ...or a touchscreen. :)
So a physical keyboard is actually more expendable than a mouse.
I don't mind this that much. It just shows that Apple elevated the mouse to an essential input system that must always be available, as opposed to being an optional accessory, and designed the system around that requirement.
You can make the same argument about not being able to do anything with a mouseless computer if the keyboard was disabled too.
In fact, even if the keyboard was unavailable, you could still use a computer with just a mouse + onscreen keyboard ...or a touchscreen. :)
So a physical keyboard is actually more expendable than a mouse.