Why do you only need one button?

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Benefits of only one button

  • Smaller learning curve
  • Fewer buttons to be confused by
  • Decreases reliance on confusing contextual menus
  • Fewer parts to break
  • Looks more stylish
  • No games
  • Less bandwidth required by USB bus, leaving more power for copying music to your iPod Shuffle.
  • More modifier keys than on a PC (, )
  • Because if you Pres Butan, Go.
  • If it's good enough for Steve, it's good enough for you
  • Everybody has had one, and one is enough for anybody
  • Encourages use of keyboard short-cuts
  • Doomsday devices have only one
  • It forces software designers to create better user interfaces
  • Although Apple's mice have one button, multiple buttons are fully supported

Update

Apple releases Mighty Mouse a _mutli-button_ mouse. Wow.

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