Why do you only need one button?
From Applepedia
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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
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Update
Apple releases Mighty Mouse a _mutli-button_ mouse. Wow.

