Good old Logitech. Today they announced that they have shipped their billionth mouse! Absolutely amazing. Founded in a farmhouse in Switzerland in 1981, Logitech introduced its first retail mouse in 1985 and reached the 100 millionth mouse mark in 1996. Sales of Logitech mice topped 500 million seven years later. Today, Logitech sells mice in more than 100 countries worldwide and manufactures an average of 376,000 mice per day and 7.8 million every month. In fact, the Logitech founders were of Italian background and their three colour logo contains the colours of the Italian flag – now you know a useless fact – say ‘thank you’. This year also marks the 40th anniversary of the very first ‘mouse'. Although we are told that the mouse as an input device is on its way out – I don’t believe it. I’ve used many different devices over the years and the standard 2 button mouse with a scroll wheel is just about perfect. Also, Logitech are a company that supports its products well and, over the years, I have only had to replace one defective product. Now, that’s a good record after using their products for nearly 20 years. At the moment, my son and I are using Logitech mice, keyboards, speakers and webcams and I don’t think that will change anytime soon. No, I don’t work for them, so I’m not getting anything for saying how good their products are – pity.
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