Apple Needs to Provide Magic Mouse support for Tiger Users

While it's always a good thing to upgrade software to take advantage of new hardware and features, some of us longstanding Mac Users are still happy with our non-Intel hardware (have owned Macs from the Mac 512K to my current PowerPC Dual Core G5). How hard can it be to provide a software update for Tiger that allows full functionality for the new BlueTooth Mouse. My understanding is that while I could upgrade the OS to Leopard, it is not recommended for PowerPCs for performance and other issues. Not asking for cross compatibility to OS 1, but there are a lot of us out here running the PowerPC G5s at OS 10.4.11 who would appreciate some consideration here.
Thanks for listening.
Cheers,
Tom

I sympathize with the sentiment. I upgraded to SL from Tiger just so I could use the Magic Mouse. It's that cool. I think doing what you suggest would be impossible for Apple. For one, so few people are using Tiger now that economically, it just wouldn't make sense for Apple to develop it any further. For another thing, the first Mac with multi-touch technology was the Macbook Air, and it debuted during the Leopard era. The foundation for multi-touch technology just isn't built into Tiger. I do think it was a mistake for Apple to take the bluetooth Mighty Mouse off the market. That was a good mouse, and there was no reason it had to go.

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