I didn’t want to get the knee-jerk reaction of maintaining continuity and avoiding change. My son is especially a creature of habit: He’d do everything the same every day if he could, I think.
Now, asking children (well, my children at least) their opinions of things can be tricky. I knew that my children wouldn’t blink if I just replaced one Kensington trackball with another, but I was curious if they were using the trackballs under protest or if they really, truly preferred them. But what would it be? A new Expert Mouse would cost about as much as a Magic Trackpad on Amazon, and there are plenty of traditional mice out there, too. So we needed a new pointing device in the house. I tried to swap in parts from a different, already-dead Expert Mouse in the hopes we could keep it alive, but in the end, it went to the great mousepad in the sky. Sadly, for the last few weeks my daughter’s trackball has shown all the signs of dying the True Death.
When pressed, my kids could use the Mighty Mouse, but only under protest. I subscribe to Dan Frakes’s theory that mice are for old people (like me, except I don’t like them either) and that the younger generation is more likely to prefer trackpads or even trackballs. They both got accustomed to using the trackball with ease.
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