My Mac Plus has arrow keys. Are you saying that they only left them out on
the original Mac?
-James
>Yeah, considering Apple's force feeding of the NEED to
>use the mouse goes back to the original Mac.
>When Apple did tests to see how users would take to
>the mouse for navigating their computers, they found
>that the majority of the people still preferred to use
>the keyboard. The people would use the arrow keys to
>cursor up and down the screen and quite honestly, they
>found it to be tedious! When the demonstrators
>indicated that they should use the mouse to move
>around the screen, the test group looked on with blank
>stares...they didn't understand..
>As a result, Apple's fist thing was to remove the
>arrow keys from the keyboard. They also created a
>special keyboard plug to prevent people from plugging
>in keyboards WITH arrow keys.
>Apple's decision was you use the mouse, or
>nothing...you have no choice!
>Kinda funny when you consider Apple's marketing
>campagain on freedom of choice!
>Ed
>web/gadget guru
>
>--- Jon Glass <jonglass_at_usa.net> wrote:
>>
>> on 11/8/01 12:30 AM, SlashDevNull at
>> SlashDevNull_at_mac.com wrote:
>>
>> > Why do you think Apple spends so
>> > much time and effort on the display, mouse, and
>> keyboard.
>>
>> And the time they skimped--the original iMac--it was
>> the one thing virtually
>> everybody complained about. :-)
>> --
>> -Jon Glass
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