Linked by Kroc Camen on Sun 8th Nov 2009 10:21 UTC
Is complexity (and wearing this on the outside) an inherit part of open source design? FactoryJoe compares the OpenOfficeMouse (a mouse with 18 programmable buttons and even an analogue joystick) and the Apple Magic Mouse-"To me, the OpenOfficeMouse seems like such a typical product from the open source community." [Kroc: I honestly believed the OpenOfficeMouse to be a very clever satirical joke, the irony that it isn't suspends belief]
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2006-10-08
Just stick on a blackberry keyboard and we're done.
Continue your idea to the real consequences: Computers are so compact these days, why not put a full-featured PC inside so you can actually run OpenOffice without a PC?
Seriously, from my little CAD experience I remember the conceept of having more than three (the standard amount) mouse buttons; we had mice for digitizer tablets with 16 buttons (1, 2, 3, ..., A, B, C, D, E, F), very handy for entering programs directly in Hex.
If they could make a mouse with, let's say, 30 buttons, you could at least get rid of the keyboard, the bug bulky thing with the many strangely-labelled keys that scares PC users, offering them a way that you could to word processing without that scary keyboard. (I know that there are virtual keyboards where you can click the letters on the screen, but you have to *look* at the screen to do that. Why not look at the nice mouse instead?)
NB: In the past, people were afraid of the mouse, today they are scared by the keyboard. "I have to *write* something? No, I can't do that, I just want to send a nice letter to Timmy!"
Finally, integrating the keyboard into the mouse would be much more appealing to the "mobile phone generation"; their writing doesn't require punctuation, so a bit less than 26 keys should be enough. "tday meet timy 800 bus stayshun greetz jony"
Sorry for making such stupid jokes ad nauseam, it's already (too) late here. :-)