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My contrarian view is that the Magic Mouse _can_ be ergonomic as long as you use to be keyboard-centric and treat the Magic Mouse primarily as an extra-large scroll wheel. Then you'll find the scrolling experience with the Magic Mouse is even better than one with a traditional mouse or a trackpad because you can speed-scroll with any finger, at any angle, and with minimal frictions. I especially enjoy scrolling with the right tip of my ring finger.

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So, the magic mouse is fine to use if you don't use it as a mouse...?

I can't decide which is more appropriate, "Think different" or "you're holding it wrong"

I do have a mouse pad that says “Think different” (from the previous millennium) but none that says “You're holding it wrong”. That's a serious gap that any competent mouse pad producer should hasten to fill.

Reminder: he never said “you’re holding it wrong”

You are right, he said:

>Gizmodo put their video on the web people were touching x marks the spot here and they were seeing a large drop in bars

> doesn't seem like a good idea if you can touch your phone one particularly grip your phone in a certain way and the bars go way down

and the fix was adding hysteresis to Cellular signal meter so it wont immediately react, no bars going down on screen = fixed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqSLZ1jqhFQ

I got me a magic trackpad specifically because Apple's trackpads are so nice, and it allows me to pan/zoom large canvases in both dimensions (I've put it between the split halves of my keyboard, and sometimes use it with my left hand, while the right stays on the mouse). I've never considered panning/scrolling with one finger, it sounds very convenient. I guess this is something that could be hacked in software? Trackpads just send the coordinates of the touch points to the OS right?

Anecdata: however nice is inertia scrolling, me scrolling on the Magic Mouse 100% reliably triggers carpal RSI in under 5min: the activating finger tendon transforms itself into a scorching hell in short order.

I find scrolling is even more enjoyable with a trackball. You get an entire ball to spin!

For me nothing beat scrolling with an unlocked scrollwheel on my old Logitech mouse. It could keep spinning for >10 seconds and allowed super fast scrolling. Though FPS games with weapon switching bound to the mouse wheel did not like that feature at all...

The updated version is good too (m720), it's both bluetooth and the oldschool USB adapter in the base. AA battery powered / buy it for life design.

Try the home and end button, or the pgup pgdn button.

Which is a bit ironic given how Apple is known for its mouse-centric UIs, complimented by excellent trackpads, and poor keyboards.

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