I think it would be silly to go back to an old-fashioned, cumbersome setup, when the two-finger right-click is so much more efficient. Why hunt for a second button, when you can just touch a second finger to the trackpad? I see no reason to regress in terms of functionality.
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When will Apple use 2 button trackpads?
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I think it would be silly to go back to an old-fashioned, cumbersome setup, when the two-finger right-click is so much more efficient. Why hunt for a second button, when you can just touch a second finger to the trackpad? I see no reason to regress in terms of functionality.
2-finger tap for right-click is much more efficient and comfortable than moving to a button. Your finger(s) are already on the trackpad. I use right-click constantly in OS-X. Much of the time, both fingers are on the pad because I've been scrolling (using two fingers).
Why? What harm does an available right click do you?
A second button is inefficient, and can even be counterproductive, for at least the following reasons:
1. Left-handers (vs. the Mac way which is equally useful for either handers).
2. Forces the user to keep his hand in the same position, hovering in the neighborhood of the second button (vs. the Mac way which allows multiple hand positions - even switching hands - over any portion of a single large button).
3. Increases the likelihood of a mis-click.
Before the advent of the current Mac setup, the PC two-button advocates had a point. But no longer. The ONLY arguable advantage of a two-button setup is familiarity - which is an entirely illusory benefit.
Frankly, it would be silly for PC makers not to switch to the Mac method (or something even better, if they can think of it) eventually. The two-button setup is nowhere carved in stone. When they launch the first manned space flight to Andromeda in 2525, I doubt they'll be using two-button mice. Things change. That's how progress works.
As for left-handers, it can be easily be switched in System Preferences.
personally I don't think it would be counter-productive. Even after using WIndows machines for years, i have NEVER mis-clicked. When I first heard this "I hate accidentally right-clicking," I nearly laughed out loud. Maybe it only happens because you guys are too used to a large single button. As for myself, even on my MacBook, when I click, I ALWAYS click on the left side of the button. The right side is never touched. Guess I'm just used to it.
So I suppose it's preference, but like someone said before, the addition of a right-click button could attract switchers, and while it might inconvenience a few tried-and-true Mac users, it's really NOT an inconvenience or a nuisance to the majority of the people who will be using these machines in the future. It simply provides an alternative way to right-click. Anyone who wants to can continue to use their two-finger-single-click method, but for those who don't want to, the right-click button is there.
Just because you don't like it doesn't mean others don't. I'm not putting down the two-finger-single-click method at all, I think it's handy and it's great, but people like me would only use it because we have to, not because we want to. We'd rather have a dedicated button, no matter how great you think your way is.
That is all. Peace.
personally I don't think it would be counter-productive. Even after using WIndows machines for years, i have NEVER mis-clicked. When I first heard this "I hate accidentally right-clicking," I nearly laughed out loud. Maybe it only happens because you guys are too used to a large single button. As for myself, even on my MacBook, when I click, I ALWAYS click on the left side of the button. The right side is never touched. Guess I'm just used to it.
So I suppose it's preference, but like someone said before, the addition of a right-click button could attract switchers, and while it might inconvenience a few tried-and-true Mac users, it's really NOT an inconvenience or a nuisance to the majority of the people who will be using these machines in the future. It simply provides an alternative way to right-click. Anyone who wants to can continue to use their two-finger-single-click method, but for those who don't want to, the right-click button is there.
Just because you don't like it doesn't mean others don't. I'm not putting down the two-finger-single-click method at all, I think it's handy and it's great, but people like me would only use it because we have to, not because we want to. We'd rather have a dedicated button, no matter how great you think your way is.
That is all. Peace.
Ridiculous? Ridiculous how? It's not like it's going to be any smaller if it were divided in two.
Well, most people use their index finger to touch the pad, and their thumbs to click. And two-finger click is not THAT hard. You're middle finger isn't that far from your index finger. It's usually sitting there doing nothing - why not put it to use.
I reckon most haven't actually tried it for any length of time, if at all. They probably just imagine it's difficult.
When is that ever necessary?
That's because people are stupid, not because it's not there. The ignorance of the public is not a reason for Apple to drop two-finger clicking and adopt two buttons.
I don't think it's about being different for the sake of being different.