12/30/14 3:54 PM

that fancy slick mouse did it all and you may not have known it. It is not intuitive when you look at it but it senses the gestures.

12/30/14 4:49 PM

"senses the gestures."


Maybe it reads, then determines them, it ain't sentient... ;)

12/30/14 5:08 PM

So the mouse is touch sensitive.

No moving mechanical parts to break or wear out, It's about time!

It takes Apple to bring it to the consumer. What else is new?

12/30/14 5:30 PM

Is this device more than an optical mouse?

12/30/14 5:38 PM

Why would one compromise on software? I don't. It is foolhardy to do so. Hardware is a commodity, secondary to software. For instance look at the valuations of the top tier computer software versus hardware companies. The former as a group trump the latter.. The value of software by suppliers and customers is much greater than hardware. Graphic designers favor Apple, while a database administrator favors windows or Linux for good reason. The software application offerings are respectively more appealing. As for Apple, the software applications offerings of past and present are much more limited than Windows in number. As an operating system, Apple's is much more limited than Microsoft's. For instance, what is the Apple equivalent of SQL, IIS, or Sharepoint? Answer, there s none.

In addition to updating its operating system, much more often, Microsoft makes it's operating systems backward and forward compatible with software applications. Apple does neither and Linux lacks comparability between old and new. Furthermore, which has not been mentioned before, is that Apple does not offer its operating system as a separate purchase. That is you cannot by or download a copy of Apple's operating system.

Ask a graphic designer how pleased they are about their $$$ Adobe Photoshop no longer working with their new iMac upgrade. I've been there.

Incidentally and ironically, most of what is written above is true, but in opposite, for Microsoft and Apple with mobile/sub laptop computing.