[Leonard210]

Um, actually, no. We want a multibutton input device, we go and get one that meets our wants and needs.

I sold Macs in a retail store for two years and the one button mouse was often a topic of discussion. Mostly along the lines, "Why doesn't this come with a multi-button mouse?" My instructions were to simply demonstrate "control-click". The fact that there was an entire row of mice two isles over does not negate the fact that Apple was proud of its one-button mouse...years after it was a great idea.

[Swordmaker]

The fact that there was an entire row of mice two isles over does not negate the fact that Apple was proud of its one-button mouse...years after it was a great idea.

On the other hand, I have trained people totally unfamiliar with computers to use a sophisticated database... from scratch. Some of these people were literally living on the street. The database (my design in FileMaker) worked on both Macs and PCs.

I usually started these neophytes by letting them get familiar with the mouse by playing some simple games... solitaire, etc. This gets them familiar with the mouse to screen metaphore including clicking. On a Mac with its one button mouse, the tyro users are ready to use the database on their own after two hours (Half hour of games, 1.5 hours of DB training)... on the PC with its two button mouse, they were still confusing left and right buttons, asking me which button, hours after the Mac users were independently working on the database.