India, Oct. 20 -- Today, October 20, marks the 17th year of the existence of one of Apple's most debated, paradoxical products. The Magic Mouse, first unveiled in 2009, was a big deal at the time for being the 'world's first multi-touch mouse'. Wireless, a solid-state laser tracking sensor, battery-powered and unlike its predecessor the Mighty Mouse (which had four programable buttons), also supported secondary click. The Magic Mouse belongs to a much longer Apple story of computing. The Lisa, introduced in 1983, brought a mouse to Apple's graphical-computing line. The Macintosh helped make mouse-reliant computing interfaces familiar to a much wider audience the next year.

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