Apple Magic Mouse (2009)

The Apple Magic Mouse is a multi-touch wireless mouse introduced by Apple in 2009, featuring a seamless touch-sensitive surface that replaced traditional scroll wheels and buttons with gesture-based controls. It was the first commercially successful multi-touch mouse, allowing users to perform…

Key facts

First appeared
2009
Category
input_device
Problem solved
Eliminated the need for physical scroll wheels and multiple buttons by introducing multi-touch gesture controls to mouse input
Platforms
macOS, Mac OS X

Related technologies

Notable users

  • Creative professionals
  • Apple ecosystem adopters
  • Mac users