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Same reason why Mac mouse doesn’t have right click and why ~double-click~ [edit: pressing “return”] on a folder is renaming, and why window controls are on a left side of a window and do things unlike MS Windows (not closing, not minimizing, not maximizing). Patents.

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> Mac mouse doesn’t have right click

This hasn't been true for over a decade. The Magic Mouse supports right-click (and the Magic Trackpad supports two-finger or bottom-right corner to right-click). Not sure if it's the default or not though.

Magic mouse has one physical clicker. To imitate “right click” you have to lift fingers from the left side and click. They can’t make a mouse with two physical clickers.

> window controls are on a left side of a window

Simpler explanation: Mac OS’s first release preceded Windows so they had to pick a side for themselves when first designing the system. See https://www.versionmuseum.com/history-of/classic-mac-os - the square on the left side of the front-most window’s title bar is the close button.

> double-click on a folder is renaming

Uhh... not on my Mac? Hitting Return is rename, is that what you meant?

Ah, yes.

Is "F2 for rename" patented?

Literally no part of this comment is correct. The Mac mouse and trackpads have had right-click for over a decade. Mac windows controls, obviously, pre-dated Windows' versions since Windows was a copy of the Mac. And patents have never had anything to do with any part of what you are talking about. How do you get 40 years of computing history wrong and then stay wrong after this long?

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