[naithemilkman]

The first rule of working at Apple - No one talks about Apple.

[mmatey]

Ok ya, I understand it's a secretive culture. But plenty of people talk about going to, and getting rejected, at other places also...

[iwr]

Second rule of Apple: one button and no more. If you need more, just use the on-screen buttons.

[seltzered]

I actually understood the one-button mouse idea recently. It forces software developers to try not to hide all the useful features behind right-click menus, but figure out how to consistently lead a user to where they want to go.

User Story: My wifi wasn't working on my windows laptop the other day, I knew there was some nice "troubleshoot network" button, but I could not find it for the life of me every time i clicked on the wifi icon, causing me to go through the "network and sharing center" menu . 10 minutes later I finally realized right-clicking instantly brought up the troubleshoot menu.

[coliveira]

> It forces software developers to try not to hide all the useful features

except that in the Mac you can option-click, which is even more complicated than a right click. There is always a way to make features obscure, if you want to.

[foljs]

>except that in the Mac you can option-click, which is even >more complicated than a right click. There is always a way >to make features obscure, if you want to.

Emm, I think you missed his point. This is EXACTLY why the single button mouse forced software developers to make it work with a single click --because it made the "right click" equivalent more difficult for the user.

[ecuzzillo]

Yeah! Gimp sucks for precisely the reason that they fall headlong into that trap.

[mfukar]

Certainly, you must mean the on-screen button.