Here it comes to save the day

In the pages of Miracleman, a comic originated by the ubiquitous Alan Moore who later passed the torch to Neil Gaiman, Gaiman posited the theory that the occurrence of one genuine impossibility would eventually lead to a cascade of previously impossible events coming to pass. It's a theory I've long been fond of, and which I'm now beginning to wonder has some basis in at least a small subset of fact, this particular subset involving Apple.

A few months ago, Apple breached the first of those seeming impossibilities when they announced their intention to transition to x86 hardware. It seems that move has now opened the door for yet another product I never thought way see the light of day from Apple: The monumental multi-button mighty mouse.

Oh, at first glance it may appear like any other mouse from Apple, but a closer peek at the specs reveals not just one button in evidence, not two buttons, oh no, not even three buttons. No dear reader, it seems when Apple preaches what was once considered heresy, they do so in as loud a voice as possible. What we have here, though it's protrusions are cunningly disguised, is a four button mouse. And with a rather nifty scroll ball to boot (the functionality of which is something Apple's mice have been missing for entirely too long).

It's been some twenty years coming, but it's here at last. Joking aside I'd love to have been privy to the discussions at Apple prior to it's release, and I'm curious as to how it will be received. I'm equally curious to what barriers remain for Apple to breach now. Perhaps we'll see MacOs running out of the box on generic x86 hardware yet...