Apple’s product design is legendary in the industry for innovation, inspiration and imagination, but it’s often the more glamorous products such as the MacBooks, iPhones andiPods that get all the attention.
With this in mind, we thought we’d take a look at Apple’s input device — the humble mouse — to see how the design has changed from way back in the early 80s right up to today.
The evolution of the Apple mouse makes for an interesting design journey that includes the loss of its tail, moving from a single button to touch, and of course going from beige to multi-colored and back to a monotone.
Click through the gallery below to journey through the mouse’s history and let us know any memories you have (fond or not!) of any of the devices in the comments.
Haha , I still remember those round ones. What a horrible failure that was ! !
ReplyDeleteHow do you play most video games with only 1 mouse button?
ReplyDelete@ andrew Apple isn't a really computer to game with.. and its old.
ReplyDeleteAnyway nice post !
I had the 3rd one down! oh the memories lololol
ReplyDeleteman i had the see through one for my old computer at school, i wanna get another apple computer
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Took them really long to add a second button, though!
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ReplyDeleteIt has right click now?
ReplyDeleteThese one-button-fetishists! :>
ReplyDeleteOld SCHOOL ftw!
ReplyDeleteThere's no way I can have just one button, but not like the dozens of buttons on those gaming mice.
ReplyDeleteI have one of those round ones I took from my school when they were throwing away all their old Macs. Those were so shitty. After all these years, they still haven't grasped right-click technology.
ReplyDeleteWow, what an evolution :P
ReplyDeleteI recently bought some wireless mouse, before that i had a racer mouse.
And I still hate Macs! Lol.
ReplyDeleteI've always been a fan of the clean mouse but Apple pushes it pretty far. Very interesting post though.
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bottom 1 is a awesome mouse =)
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haha, the bottom one is sweet but how do I right click?!
ReplyDeleteThe computer mouse has actually come so far!!!
ReplyDeleteOne of the reasons i prefer not to use apple.
ReplyDeleteform > function when it should be function >> form
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ReplyDeletedamn, they've come a long way.
ReplyDeleteMy lord, some of these old mices are scary.
ReplyDeleteNow whenever I find a ps/2 adapter I laugh, but I guess they are still needed.
Lool, they really have come a long way
ReplyDeleteI hated those mice that came with the first iMacs, they were so ugly and not ergonomic at all!
ReplyDeleteI remember those 1 button mouse, all squared.
ReplyDeleteGood memories, thanks :)
Next a vibrator/holoprojector combo.
ReplyDeleteHahaha, oh wow. Nice.
ReplyDeleteApple can sure make some nice products, I just wish they weren't so darn expensive.
ReplyDeleteAhh the large comfortable block of death at the top. Used to love stealing the balls out of them, for no real reason other than to make teacher annngry.
ReplyDeleteI always wonder why those old things are so ugly. A square mouse, lol.
ReplyDeleteI probably have at lest one of each of those somewhere in my house, plus one of the new track pads.
ReplyDeleteomfg i remember using the old ones ...
ReplyDeleteI remember the old ones... But the last one I used was an iMac mouse, back in high school. Man I thought it was awesome at the time, of course I didn't have a proper PC in my house at the time.
ReplyDeleteI don't think I could use a Mac mouse anymore, too use to my PC mice!
eMac mice are so stupid...then again I found on the other day and tried it out for nostalgia's sake.
ReplyDeleteApple mice suck.
ReplyDeleteis this sex tech? >=(
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ReplyDeletethey went from being shitty to the most amazing mouse in the worlddddd
ReplyDeletehow long till they had 2 buttons...? lol =D and i agree data fox.
ReplyDeleteThat is actually pretty cool, even though I'll never own a Mac.
ReplyDeletehaha apple logo was always the same... I laughed when watching forest gump when he opened the letter and said my friend invested money in some kind of fruit company (apple of course xD)
ReplyDeleteI still think I prefer two buttons. Hell, my mouse has 5 and I love it.
ReplyDeleteThose round mouses were the shiiiit.
ReplyDeletehaha look at the first one :)
ReplyDeleteawesome post. i can only imagine what User Interface we'll be using in 20-30 years.
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