It did a good job fulfilling one of iMacs primary objectives
That being: Get Attention.
Sort of along the lines of 'there's no such thing as bad publicity' - if people were saying how much they hate the mouse, at least they were talking about Apple without, for once, using 'beleagured' in the same sentence.
I've only used a hockey-puck mouse for about five mins so I can't really make a call.
On and on and on and on,
and on and on and on goes John.