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Snap, awesome point!

Apple are notoriously bad at heeding the complaints of it's customers...it's a numbers game. At no point will more than half the people with a product bother to complain...so more than half must be happy right? Yeah, makes no sense but I reckon that's how they work. Two firmwares back they removed a much used feature in iPhone/iPod touch devices (double click in any app while music was NOT playing to get a music pop up...this only works if music IS playing now) and despite the numerous forums and messages...despite a campaign to give feedback on the appropriate page they have released two firmwares since and not put the functionality back.

How can you possibly use 3 and 4 finger gestures? The mouse isn't wide enough to support these.
A 4 finger gesture would probably throw the mouse right off your desk!

There's no way to set actions for a "tertiary" or "quaternary" click. You can see in this video

http://www.apple.com/magicmouse/

at around 2:10, all the options that you can set in the system preferences for the Magic Mouse.

But from that interface, it looks like it was rushed or that there's plenty of space left for new actions... After all, that's the point of adding a multi-touch interface: flexibility.

Funny enough, you can't actually make feature requests for apple hardware peripherals (such as keyboards or mice).

The lack of middle click on this Magic Mouse is driving me nuts.

Yup. It's like saying, "Apple I won't buy your product unless you add this feature. In the mean time I'll go buy another product that does exactly what I want".

This doesn't work if you have a Macbook with a multitouch trackpad...

I sugget to take a look at this:

http://blog.boastr.net/

This is a new app that enables the same functionality and so much more, but at the moment the three tap function on the Magic Mouse has been disabled.

Works perfectly on an iMac (gen Spring 2009) with Mac OS X 10.6.2 installed. Just got the magic mouse and immediately discovered the missing third click. Was disappointed that I didn't know this sooner but figured Apple wouldn't take that away in a device called "magic" mouse. Boy, was I wrong, apparently. But, middleclick to the rescue. I only hope they pay you for the implementation and make it native in the System Preferences with an update.

middle click for web browsing? They already show you how to pan around. You won't need middle click anymore.

But if you do use a program like Autodesk Maya or Cinema4D then you'll need middle click. I like the mouse but will never get it just for web browsing alone.

I agree with getting a logitech or something ergo with buttons. When is Apple going to learn?