In order for Apple to be negligent by not tending to a matter they'd first have to have the responsibility of tending to it to begin with.
It is not my understanding that Apple has any responsibility for ensuring equal access and capabilities for third-party accessories on their own weird, proprietary, invented-in-house computing systems.
Therefore, it is also not my understanding that they can be negligent on these matters.
They broke things that used to work. They had other reasons for doing it, but they also didn't really care to fix the problems it created. Their ecosystem is somewhat isolated from regular PCs and caters to a different clientele so I'm sure it made business sense to prioritize that way. Hence, there's at least some intent involved, just not outright malice.
Never attribute to malice or stupidity that which can be explained by moderately rational individuals following incentives in a complex system.
Re:New iMac with M4
by square_usual on Monday October 28, 2024 @02:56PM
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> They also don't support more than 3 buttons on a mouse well, because Apple doesn't make mice with more than 3 buttons
This is not true. Again, I have a Master 3S and I have natively, through macOS settings, bound Mouse 4 and 5 to mission control.
I can't recall ever seeing this option with the old System Preferences, so it might be new to System Settings; but either way, it's not universal. I have a 5-button Razer mouse attached to test with right now, and the "Mouse buttons" option doesn't appear in System Settings. It does, however, show up in the System Settings search results, which is nice and confusing ("here's a setting we found, that doesn't actually exist for you").
And yes, fixing this requires custom software.