High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Apple USB Mouse, commonly called "Hockey puck" (so called because of its unusual round shape), is a mouse released by Apple Inc. with the iMac G3 in 1998 and included with all successive desktop Macs for the next 2 years. It was the first commercially released Apple mouse to use the USB connection format and not the Apple Desktop Bus(ADB). It is widely considered one of Apple's worst mistakes.