Dial Up The Great Mouse Button Debate: Apple Applies For Rotary Mouse Patent

Appl e has been tilting at windmills for a long time with its rather backward policy of offering mice with only one button. To those fervent apologists clutching on to their one-button mice, please spare me and save the drama for ya mama. I don't plan on taking on the requisite Kool-Aid consumption required to believe that scroll wheels and second buttons are bad. Apparently, Apple is considering a reduction in mice Kool-Aid output as well. Apple filed a patent application on February 7, 2002 that was published today on the USPTO Web site on a mouse with a little bit of iPod thrown in