Mighty Mouse Selling Well After First Day
TMO Reports - Mighty Mouse Selling Well After First Day
by , 10:45 AM EDT, August 3rd, 2005
A quick check of 10 Apple retail stores Wednesday showed the Mac makers new Mighty Mouse pointing device sold well its first 24 hours.
Calls by The Mac Observer to 10 Apple retail locations in states like Virginia, Ohio, Georgia, Florida and New York showed nine of the stores sold out of the new mouse. Only one store -- Apple's flagship store in the SoHo district of New York City -- had remaining stock of less than five.
"It's been selling well," a store manager in Atlanta, Georgia told TMO, Wednesday. "We came in yesterday with people calling and standing in the store waiting for us to unpack our daily shipment. I was sold out of about 40 of (the Mighty Mouse) by 1 PM."
Other stores gave similar reports, many saying they did not recieve enough stock to meet first-day demand, but that regional managers had promised all stores would be recieving an additional shipment of the new device each day for the remainder of the week.
"I sold out of about 50 by 3 PM," said a Apple store manager in Miami, Florida, who asked not to be named. "We spent the rest of the day disappointing people in person and by phone. We had to watch our demo model very closely," he said with a laugh.
What makes the tiny new device different is a scroll ball for moving vertically, horizontally and sideways and four sensors that can be programmed for various tasks, but only on Macs using OS X 10.4.
One store manager told TMO a number of interested Windows users came in to check out the Mighty Mouse, but were disappointed to hear it can't be programmed to work on their PCs.
"As soon as they heard that, the sale was off," the unidentified manager said. "They thought it was a beautiful mouse, but that doesn't make it any better if you can't program it."
Observer Comments
Wed Aug 03, 2005 11:16 am Subject: If iLemmings Had A Decent Mouse Wouldn't Need Upgrade
Wed Aug 03, 2005 11:34 am Subject: Contrфle faux de rйalitй
So the one-button mouse had "strong sales" and that somehow translates that it is for children and losers?
My Mac is already a "PC", a personal computer. Now my next Mac will probably have an Intel CPU, but that doesn't mean I will be switching to Windows.
To those who say we shouldn't respond to trolls. Well if trolls keep lying long enough then people may believe them. It is like graffiti, paint over it as soon as it appears or your neighborhood soon looks like crap.
QuoteRealityCheck wrote:
Strong sales prove that the one-button mouse was for children and losers. First the Intel announcement, now multi-button mice, sorry to rock your world but your next Mac is a PC.
Wed Aug 03, 2005 11:37 am Subject: Mac becoming PC?
RealityCheck:
How incredibly superficial can you be?
Yes, Mac will become a PC just as soon as Macs become vulnerable to 90,000 various types of viruses, adware and spyware, and become aggravatingly difficult to use.
As long as Microsoft continues to TRY to copy Macs (after many YEARS and thousands of programmers, they STILL can't do it well), Macs will always be far beyond any horizon that Microsoft can possibly imagine.
I find it very humorous that Microsoft users TRY to compare their fantasy vaporware with a release date of 18 months in the future with what Apple users currently have on their desks TODAY! Even then, Vista/Longhorn is a very poor copy. Imagine how far behind Microsoft will be in 18 months when their atrophied OS has to face the Mac Leopard.
Wed Aug 03, 2005 11:46 am Subject: Re: If iLemmings Had A Decent Mouse Wouldn't Need Upgrade
QuoteRealityCheck wrote:
Strong sales prove that the one-button mouse was for children and losers. First the Intel announcement, now multi-button mice, sorry to rock your world but your next Mac is a PC.
So what? As long as it isn't Windows, works the way I'm used to and isn't blighted with virii, trojan horses etc I couldn't give a toss.
"To those who say we shouldn't respond to trolls. Well if trolls keep lying long enough then people may believe them. It is like graffiti, paint over it as soon as it appears or your neighborhood soon looks like crap."
I agree. But NEVER lose sight of the fact that you are responding to a highly delusional, self-loathing, insecure and disturbed coward. Try to stay safely away from its twisted, hate-filled vortex.
Quote
RealityCheck wrote:
Strong sales prove that the one-button mouse was for children and losers. First the Intel announcement, now multi-button mice, sorry to rock your world but your next Mac is a PC.
So I wonder... the one-button mouse is for Mac only. And now the mutiple-button mouse is for Mac and Windows. Perhaps you should guard your mouse before the Apple logo jumps on your Windows system.
What do we have now? Your Windows has Apple iTune, Apple QuickTime, and Apple LCD display (that's is you can afford it). Perhaps Apple Mighty Mouse is coming to a Windows PC near you soon?
Check the link
http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/plural-of-virus.html
QuoteRealityCheck wrote:
Strong sales prove that the one-button mouse was for children and losers. First the Intel announcement, now multi-button mice, sorry to rock your world but your next Mac is a PC.
Then I guess you were pretty upset when you tried to purchase one, but found they were sold out.
Trolls like you and your nonsense gives all computer users a bad name. Whine all you want but the Mac has been proven to be the better design time and time again. And now that you Windows pushers have nothing to brag about anymore you come over to the Mac sites and make stupid kiddie remarks that are just nonsense. Go back to your nursery rhimes and play with your virus infected PC if you have nothing to say. Especially when you spread FUD.
Wed Aug 03, 2005 12:27 pm Subject: Macs don't get viruses because you need a password
Unless you give out your admin password a virus can't get in period! OSX provides real security unlike Windows which provides NO security. There are millions of Macs out online and certainly enough to target a virus if they could get through OSX's security. It's been proven over and over again that if you put a PC online unprotected it takes less than 20 minutes before it's infected. Put a Mac online and it is as safe as if it were in fort knox. Spyware on a PC is like open season and you must clean your system daily or risk having to start over.
How do I know this you ask? My job is to fix these PC's everyday in a corporate enviroment as a desktop support techician. I see this first hand on a daily basis.
R.C. get a life. Yes, we like Macs, Steve, Apple, and we swim in the Kool-aid. So what? We get excited for Apple and it's products. This is a Mac user site... get the picture? I'm pretty sure that you do, but for some twisted reason you feel it necessary to come in a spew your garbage like a cyber terrorist. Free speech is your right, but your behavior is inexcusable. Your actions depict an angry tormented individual who most likely abuses themselves and the people around them. Please seek professional help before the courts intervene. You don’t have to live this way.
Wed Aug 03, 2005 12:42 pm Subject: MacDailyNews review
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SteveJack at MacDailyNews has posted a very interesting -- and positive -- review of Mighty Mouse. What made it particularly interesting to me was that he'd been using a Kensington StudioMouse before trying Mighty Mouse. I use a Kensington StudioMouse and have always thought it exceptional, so Apple's newest offering must really be good to compare so positively.
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments_opinion/6456/
Wed Aug 03, 2005 1:01 pm Subject: RC's not really a problem
I have a feeling that he's paid to write the troll stuff and it's better than him being on welfare and getting food stamps.
The reality is that a lot of people select a mouse or keyboard that matches what they do. I normally use Apple's K&M, but when migrating to a Mac accounting program I had put all the PC programs data on Excel spreadsheets and had a ton of copy & paste actions to transfer the data from the stack of Excel spreadsheets to Quickbooks. Went to CompUSA and bought a cheap keyboard that had copy & paste buttons and, after a few thousand transfers, it died as I was finishing up the transfers. Went into the trash and the Apple KB is back in place.
Mice are the same. Scrolling is fine, but I prefer the PowerMate from Griffin Technology for scrolling - easier & less risk of RSI. I did order a Mighty Mouse to see what it's like, but in general use I prefer the plain old Apple mouse, with or without a tail.
Wed Aug 03, 2005 1:22 pm Subject: "I have a feeling that he's paid to write the troll stu
QuoteRealityCheck wrote:
Strong sales prove that the one-button mouse was for children and losers. First the Intel announcement, now multi-button mice, sorry to rock your world but your next Mac is a PC.
Since when did one's preference in computer mice reflect so heavily on their personality? o_O
Wed Aug 03, 2005 1:45 pm Subject: The origin of "PC"
QuoteLet's not forget that it was Apple co-founder Woz who coined the term PC to describe an Apple computer. IBM, being creatively challenged, adopted it as the moniker of their first desktop computer. Thus the term was hijacked by the dark side.Al Swearengen wrote:
My Mac is already a "PC", a personal computer.
QuoteOnce RC posts here at the MacObserver, i generally stop reading the comments because they become:Al Swearengen wrote:
To those who say we shouldn't respond to trolls. Well if trolls keep lying long enough then people may believe them. It is like graffiti, paint over it as soon as it appears or your neighborhood soon looks like crap.
1) Off-topic
2) Idiotic
That is the true graffiti here, not RC's pathetically feeble scrawlings.
That's too much power for any Troll to have, and RC only has it because the folks here give it to her, not because of anything she says. She hasn't a brain in her head, so why pay any attention to her?
Wed Aug 03, 2005 3:04 pm Subject: I do not loathe myself!
I don't! I don't!
I also don't change my underwear or brush my teeth, but what does that prove? I just don't have the time, since I am too busy doing daily virus and malware scans, and trying to recover from the last time my Dell took a header. BTW, one OR TWO button mice are for losers. My mouse has 5 buttons, though I have yet to figure out what all of them are for! Oh! gotta' go! The Teletubbies are on!
"sorry to rock your world but your next Mac is a PC."
Sorry to pop the delusional bubble you live in, Reality Check, but Macs have always been PCs. Don't you even know what it stands for? Personal Computer. And like Rainy Day said, Wozniak coined the term 'PC' to DESCRIBE APPLE COMPUTERS.
Next Mac, last Mac, first Mac, they're all PCs. I know checking reality is something you never do, but you ought to give it a try sometime, or else you'll never stop jamming your foot up your mouth.
Wow people sure are hostile with this dude "RealityCheck", probably because of the PC jab. Ah the Mac has always been a PC duh, in fact so did the Apple ]
QuoteRealityCheck wrote:
e it a PC, the type of computer makes it a PC. Anyway, I am happy they finnaly produced thier own mulibutton mouse, I knew it was coming cause I heard from a friend that Microsoft was trying to be the ones who created it. This mouse looks cool, love the track ball on top for scrolling, about time someone did this. MS has the horizontal scrolling but it isn't that useful and it takes a bit for it to kick in. Can't wait to try it out, will I buy one, not sure depends on how it feels in my hand. Love my old MouseMan Wheel mouse, very confertable.
[quote="RealityCheck"]Strong sales prove that the one-button mouse was for children and losers. First the Intel announcement, now multi-button mice, sorry to rock your world but your next Mac is a PC.
I see what Rainy Day means... After RC posts on a thread, the rest of it concentrates on insulting him or proving him wrong. Goodbye news topic. I also have a feeling , just a feeling mind you, that RC does his routine spamming (I think that's what we can call it) on purpouse. He may even be another registered user using RC as a mask. Ah, well... All wasted time.
Wed Aug 03, 2005 8:47 pm Subject:
Wed Aug 03, 2005 11:17 pm Subject: SystemShootOuts.org - Mac vs. "PC"
It's very strange to find a PC preacher. There are so many Mac preachers out there, but PC ambassadors are rare.
It's also very amusing to see someone who apparently likes MS call the 1 out of 30 or so computer users who choose Macs lemmings.
He's apparently buying the same crap he's selling.
Where is the Bluetooth version of the Mighty Mouse?
By the way, I notice the cable on the Mighty Mouse is the same thin type as the standard mouse and enters the mouse in the same location. We have found the standard mouse will fail because eventually the cable snaps internally at that point (due to the design all the bending force in the cable is concentrated at that point).
Hence my desire for a Bluetooth version.
I have had dozens of the Apple optical mice fail due to this and have been replacing them with cheap Microsoft Optical mice.
Thu Aug 04, 2005 10:08 am Subject: Re: Bluetooth version
QuoteMacCentral wrote:
Mac zombies insist that a Mac is called a "PC," yet enthusiastically advocate www.systemshootouts.org, where it's "Mac vs. PC".
Zombies, let's try to stay on topic, this thread is about Apple's new multi-button mouse disguised as a disfunctional one-button soapdish.
Idiot trolls, lets try to remember that a Mac IS a personal computer. And one that doesn't get insta-screwed by various virii, malware, and spyware like its poor-relation Windows cousins, and is about 18 months ahead in OS sophistication. You're right, it helps to clarify such things.
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