Magic Mouse User Feedback/Suggestion Box

The Magic Mouse has great esthetic appeal, the touch to scroll is employed well, the swipes will take some getting used to as it is a natural movement (at least to me). The biggest shortfall I see is the inability to assign the functions, as well as the loss of the third and fourth buttons (scroll button click, and squeeze button)
The scroll button would be easy to employ as a virtual button with a two fingered click. Clearly the device can sense the difference between one and two fingers and the motion of clicking with two fingers seems incredibly intuitive to me.
One could also conceive of having two fingered scrolling mean something different than one fingered scrolling, think Application switching, Spaces, screen zoom.
The problem with the swipe motion is you have to stop the mouse from moving side to side as you hold it, making the motion somewhat unnatural. Interestingly though pinching/spreading on the mouse would work very well, since the opposite movement of each finger keeps the mouse still and does not require you to hold the sides. So pinch/expand zooming would be a natural one too.
Two finger Rotate seems hard since again the issue of the mouse moving comes up
Apple, throw in a two finger click assignable to expose, spaces, or user choice please. Pinch Zoom too please
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In addition to all those I'd really love two finger slide up gesture to go up a folder level, or customizable to show topsites in Safari maybe. Slide down gesture to open a folder or file.
There are a lot of cool gestures. If Apple could create a 'watch me' method to create our one it would defeat the need for 3rd party software which could complicate the proper navigation functions. Even if most were disabled by default it gives advanced users a chance to take advantage of it's multitouch surface, which currently barely scratches the surface.

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I was trying the magic mouse in my local Apple Store and when I was home again I was thinking about if I had heard something while scrolling or not. I couldn't really say it, because I did not really pay special attention to it.
Many of you know that the Mighty Mouse has a piezo speaker inside, so that the scrolling gives an accoustic feedback to the user (look here: http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2005/08/dissect.ars). I think this is really comfortable and really native for the interaction between the user and the device, especially when you work a lot with it.
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Hello again:
You were quite clear.
ok, maybe it was written a little bit unclear: is there a software update, so that you can hear the scroll sound? i could'nt find anything…
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