Amaya Toman In addition to tablets, smartphones, computers and other hardware, Apple's portfolio also includes mice. The history of mice from the workshop of the Cupertino company began to be written quite a long time ago, specifically in the early eighties, when Apple came up with the Lisa Mouse, which was very revolutionary at the time. However, in today's look back at history, we will look at the relatively recently past times. We will remember the time when the world first learned that Apple was preparing a wireless mouse.
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Flying around the world with Apple It was July 2006, and news broke that Apple had registered a wireless mouse with Bluetooth connectivity with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Just one day after photos of the aforementioned mouse were released, Apple has officially launched its wireless Mighty Mouse. The Mighty Mouse wireless mouse was born just one year after the classic "wired" version, which itself brought a big change for Apple. Until then, all the mice that the company supplied for the Mac had only one button. This limitation, which was originally intended to simplify the use of the mouse, turned out to be rather unnecessary in the new millennium, and with its wireless version of the Mighty Mouse, Apple decided to buck the trend once and for all end.
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The Mighty Mouse was therefore equipped with two buttons, a miniature trackball for scrolling and side pressure sensors, which were intended to further improve the functionality of the mouse. Mouse actions and functions were highly customizable by users. Since Steve Jobs was famous for his aversion to visible buttons at the time, the first wireless Mighty Mouse - like the previous type - featured a "buttonless" design. The story goes that this design originally came about by mistake after Steve Jobs inadvertently approved an unfinished mouse prototype. Among other things, the new Mighty Mouse model was also equipped with a laser. The power supply was provided by a pair of classic pencil batteries, the price of the mouse was 69 dollars at the time of the start of sales.
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The first wireless Mighty Mouse quickly gained considerable popularity among users, but like most other devices, it also suffered from certain ailments. For example, clicking with the right and left buttons at the same time (or the impossibility of this clicking), the notoriously complicated cleaning of the scroll ball and other little things were problematic. Apple's first wireless Mighty Mouse remained on the market relatively successfully until 2009, when it was replaced by the Magic Mouse in October.
