If you don’t want to mess with your trackpad or mouse settings, Apple provides a way to generate a right click without changing a single thing. You can get a right-click, or secondary click without changing anything. Still – despite what Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines suggest (that all functions should be addressable by a single mouse click), the fact remains that having a secondary mouse function is a feature far too useful for most of us to ignore. It has substantially influenced much of their product design even today – the company doesn’t offer mice with separate buttons, and in recent MacBooks, has done away with physical buttons entirely – it’s all done in software, now. Part of Steve Jobs’ obsession with simplification, the trend goes all the way back to Apple’s first products, when arrow keys were left off of the keyboard, and extends to their retail stores the elevator in the Tokyo Ginza store has no buttons, for example – it simply stops on each floor.
The biggest problem can be figuring out how to right-click on Mac, given its single-button trackpad – here’s how it’s done.Īpple’s compulsion with ridding the world of buttons has been ongoing since its inception. Despite the fact that today’s MacBooks have – bar none – the best trackpads in the computer industry, they continue to be confusing for people new the Mac platform and OS X.
