The reason the charging port is on the bottom is due to the original removable battery option. The charging port is in the same location as the latch for the removable battery cover. That allowed Apple to save $$ by keeping the industrial design almost identical between the two different versions.
While the the charging cable goes in the same location as the previous battery chamber, that was NOT the primary reason for the charging cable located so you couldn’t keep using while charging.
The main reason is cables then and even now have a rating for amount of flexing stress on the area from cable going into the connector at the end of the cable — and at the intersection of the receiving and inserted connectors.
Wired mice often failed at the connection point as an eventual end of life. And intermittent failure is hugely frustrating and gets increasingly worse.
Imagine that Lightning cable or USB cable not ending up charging your mouse, or your phone or losing data transfer or corruption. That’s so exasperating! Ugh!!
With the advent of quick charging, Apple added a reliability factor for both the mouse and not incidentally, the cable that might also be used for other mission critical work.
5 minutes to get a day’s charge is seriously not a problem* as I had anticipated. I greatly appreciated the break even when working through the night and furiously trying to get a design job ready to send a PDF proof, or NCAA sports photos ready to submit to one of the University’s sports writers in time before their 7am posting time.
I found I re-started my work with a clearer head or emptied distracting bladder or cup of coffee injected for the last push. Mostly a refreshed brain and body. Most often while charging the mouse, I’d run up and down a set of stairs a few times and be so refreshed back in the saddle.
And I never had a cable failure if I used that cable for something else.
This is the strongest case to keep cable charging into the belly button. Qi charging on a mat that could be a mouse pad might solve the interruption in the future.
*While I found constructive use of five minutes, you don’t have to. Eg. What if you’re collaborating with client or your art director through screen sharing? Then you have to think ahead and make sure you have a charge to get through a session of unknown length reliably.
For that reason, Apple should make an option of a mouse charge readout that a user can opt-in, for mission critical reliability and session continuity.
But do thank Apple that all your cables are wearing at a similar rate and all last a very long time, rather than a cable you leave in the mouse for a day or days or weeks on end, accumulating motion at the connector and getting an intermittent failure —and being a common cable, getting mixed in with other cables and adding risk and exasperation to other uses.
Apple cables were always crap. They were always breaking at their connection because of poor design and construction. Just like the stupid Magic Mouse. My bet is that even with 18 months to design a ‘new’ mouse, it will still be crap.
Do you actually believe what you're writing? Is your head really that far up your ass or are you just so in love with Tim that you've lost all rational and critical thinking ability?
Let's analyze your claim - Apple can't put the plug in a convenient spot because then people will leave it plugged in and wreck the battery and Apple will get sued. And likely go out of business.
What about people's iPhones? they leave them plugged in all night while they sleep even though it takes less than an hour to fully charge them. Somehow iPhone batteries aren't dying left and right. Hmm...maybe Apple's smart enough to have battery management software? No, Apple would never be that smart. And what about the thousands of iPads that are used as kiosks, point of sale systems, etc and stay plugged in 24/7? Wow, they still work! I have a 10 year old iPad that's been repurposed. The battery's long dead but it doesn't matter because it's always plugged in.
Let's look at an even better example, the Magic Keyboard. It lets you do exactly what they should have done with the Magic Mouse. The battery runs low and you can plug it in and keep typing. By some miracle we haven't seen legions of lawyers filing class action suits because people have left their magic keyboard plugged in and the batteries have died. Maybe because it's not an issue?
And Battery gate? Your memory is as weak as your reasoning. Apple got sued because they throttled performance without telling people. One can claim that they did it to protect people or that they did it to surreptitiously drive sales. Because they did it in secret both claims are plausible. Had they simply told people there wouldn't have been an issue.
Please, if you're going to come up with excuses, at least try to better than a 6th grader could do.
Nice “straw man” argument. Nobody said the things that you’re responding to. Certainly not me.
Sorry, but I was responding directly to your claims. If they can’t stand on their own without you calling the rebuttal a ‘straw man argument’ then maybe they can’t stand at all.
The reason the charging port is on the bottom is due to the original removable battery option. The charging port is in the same location as the latch for the removable battery cover. That allowed Apple to save $$ by keeping the industrial design almost identical between the two different versions.
That's ok then. I'm perfectly happy to accept suboptimal design if it contributes to Apple's bottom line.
It would have been suboptimal design without the fast charging capability. But since it could charge for the work day in five minutes, keeping the internal design arrangement almost identical to the removable battery version makes more sense than spending time/money on giving the end user five minutes of tethered work time.
Ah, the same old, tired “it’s not THAT much of an inconvenience” excuse. The people making it are almost as tired as the excuse is.
The picture in the article shows just how ridiculous the design is. I was again reminded of the absurdity when I got an alert that the battery on my Magic Keyboard was low. I simply plugged it in and kept working. I suppose what I should have done is turned it upside down and gone to do something else which I must have needed to do anyway while it charged?
The current design keeps people from leaving it plugged in and using it as a wired mouse. Is aesthetics a reason? Maybe.
The real reason is that this is Apple, and they would inevitably have to defend themselves against a class action lawsuit if they designed it the way you want it, because leaving it plugged in would result in wear and damage to the cable and port from repetitive (mis)use as a wired mouse. It wouldn't matter if they plastered warnings all over the place not to use it while it's plugged in. The lawsuit would claim that it was clearly designed so that you could use it while plugged in, knowing that the eventual damage from an intentionally faulty design would result in sales of more replacement cables and mice.
Put the port on the bottom, and while there's lots of truly absurdist bellyaching about it, there are no class action lawsuits. It's a wireless mouse. It's insanely easy to charge it so you can use it wirelessly.
No evidence whatsoever to suggest this would happen. Completely made up nonsense with little to nothing by way of precedent. Stop making excuses.
No evidence? Among other things, Apple just paid out on a class-action lawsuit that literally penalized them for extending the usability of older iPhones by preventing them from crashing.
Remember "battery gate"? All lithium batteries become weaker over time. It's a fact. It's physics. It's also a fact that smartphones will crash if the processor demands more peak power than an older, degraded battery can produce in a given time. Apple wrote iOS to adapt in those cases, instead slowing the processor in order to spread out (and thus lower) peak power demand on the battery over time, thereby allowing functions to be carried out, if a bit more slowly, instead of letting the phone simply crash and shut down. While it's true that a phone that gets slower and slower may motivate a user to eventually spend the money to replace it with a newer device, it's also true that a a phone that starts crashing and shutting down will motivate a user to much more quickly replace it with a newer device, because it's not just slow, it's unusable. Apple was actually decreasing demand for iPhone upgrades by enabling older devices to last longer, but the class action lawyers twisted that around, ignoring the facts and creating a narrative that Apple was causing older phones to slow down for no reason in order to promote a planned obsolescence scheme. That's a lie, but it was eventually cheaper for Apple to settle the suit rather than letting it drag out, with that lie continuing to be featured in the public square, and continuing to damage Apple's reputation.
They did all this without telling users, or offering them any control over their phone's behaviour. That's why they were sued. Completely different from your ridiculous prophecy.
That’s not the sort of OS feature that usually gets a press release. Preventing system crashes is generally filed generically under “system improvements” or “bug fix.” And what sort of user control would you expect for the battery issue? A dialog box that says “Oof! That’s a tough one for your old battery! How would you prefer to handle it? [Temporary slowdown] or [System crash]”
You’re just proving my point. The twisted, litigious response in “battery gate” is a great predictor for how people would respond if Apple put a charging port on the front of the mouse. In some number of cases of misuse of the device as an always-wired mouse would lead to damage to the charging port, people would blame Apple for bad design and sue them for the damage.
It doesn’t need a press release but it does at least need documentation. That’s exactly what the courts as well as thousands of users and journalists said as well. Software The fact that you think it’s ‘twisted’ logic to expect a company to document how they cripple performance (for whatever reason) speaks volumes.
For the record, I think Apple did this for the right reason (to maintain reliability) rather than to drive upgrades but they were also completely in the wrong to do so without telling anyone. That’s the problem, though - I think this but I can’t prove it. As I’ve said, all they needed to do was to tell people.
The reason the charging port is on the bottom is due to the original removable battery option. The charging port is in the same location as the latch for the removable battery cover. That allowed Apple to save $$ by keeping the industrial design almost identical between the two different versions.
That's ok then. I'm perfectly happy to accept suboptimal design if it contributes to Apple's bottom line.
It would have been suboptimal design without the fast charging capability. But since it could charge for the work day in five minutes, keeping the internal design arrangement almost identical to the removable battery version makes more sense than spending time/money on giving the end user five minutes of tethered work time.
Ah, the same old, tired “it’s not THAT much of an inconvenience” excuse. The people making it are almost as tired as the excuse is.
The picture in the article shows just how ridiculous the design is. I was again reminded of the absurdity when I got an alert that the battery on my Magic Keyboard was low. I simply plugged it in and kept working. I suppose what I should have done is turned it upside down and gone to do something else which I must have needed to do anyway while it charged?
The current design keeps people from leaving it plugged in and using it as a wired mouse. Is aesthetics a reason? Maybe.
The real reason is that this is Apple, and they would inevitably have to defend themselves against a class action lawsuit if they designed it the way you want it, because leaving it plugged in would result in wear and damage to the cable and port from repetitive (mis)use as a wired mouse. It wouldn't matter if they plastered warnings all over the place not to use it while it's plugged in. The lawsuit would claim that it was clearly designed so that you could use it while plugged in, knowing that the eventual damage from an intentionally faulty design would result in sales of more replacement cables and mice.
Put the port on the bottom, and while there's lots of truly absurdist bellyaching about it, there are no class action lawsuits. It's a wireless mouse. It's insanely easy to charge it so you can use it wirelessly.
No evidence whatsoever to suggest this would happen. Completely made up nonsense with little to nothing by way of precedent. Stop making excuses.
No evidence? Among other things, Apple just paid out on a class-action lawsuit that literally penalized them for extending the usability of older iPhones by preventing them from crashing.
Remember "battery gate"? All lithium batteries become weaker over time. It's a fact. It's physics. It's also a fact that smartphones will crash if the processor demands more peak power than an older, degraded battery can produce in a given time. Apple wrote iOS to adapt in those cases, instead slowing the processor in order to spread out (and thus lower) peak power demand on the battery over time, thereby allowing functions to be carried out, if a bit more slowly, instead of letting the phone simply crash and shut down. While it's true that a phone that gets slower and slower may motivate a user to eventually spend the money to replace it with a newer device, it's also true that a a phone that starts crashing and shutting down will motivate a user to much more quickly replace it with a newer device, because it's not just slow, it's unusable. Apple was actually decreasing demand for iPhone upgrades by enabling older devices to last longer, but the class action lawyers twisted that around, ignoring the facts and creating a narrative that Apple was causing older phones to slow down for no reason in order to promote a planned obsolescence scheme. That's a lie, but it was eventually cheaper for Apple to settle the suit rather than letting it drag out, with that lie continuing to be featured in the public square, and continuing to damage Apple's reputation.
They did all this without telling users, or offering them any control over their phone's behaviour. That's why they were sued. Completely different from your ridiculous prophecy.
That’s not the sort of OS feature that usually gets a press release. Preventing system crashes is generally filed generically under “system improvements” or “bug fix.” And what sort of user control would you expect for the battery issue? A dialog box that says “Oof! That’s a tough one for your old battery! How would you prefer to handle it? [Temporary slowdown] or [System crash]”
You’re just proving my point. The twisted, litigious response in “battery gate” is a great predictor for how people would respond if Apple put a charging port on the front of the mouse. In some number of cases of misuse of the device as an always-wired mouse would lead to damage to the charging port, people would blame Apple for bad design and sue them for the damage.
It doesn’t need a press release but it does at least need documentation. That’s exactly what the courts as well as thousands of users and journalists said as well. Software The fact that you think it’s ‘twisted’ logic to expect a company to document how they cripple performance (for whatever reason) speaks volumes.
For the record, I think Apple did this for the right reason (to maintain reliability) rather than to drive upgrades but they were also completely in the wrong to do so without telling anyone. That’s the problem, though - I think this but I can’t prove it. As I’ve said, all they needed to do was to tell people.
The fact that they settled the lawsuit for a huge amount instead of fighting it out in the court is proof enough.
I like it and don't care where the charging port is.
I charged my mouse last night
It’s just the usual detractors who don’t know any better:
1. Logitech people who bought one because its cheap and then proclaim it the best thing on earth.
2. Razer fans who switched from PC.
3. People who’ve never used a Magic Mouse.
I get it. I was once a huge fan of Razer and Microsoft’s mice. When the Apple Mighty Mouse or whatever first came out, I laughed. Thought it was silly. Then I bought one to try it out. Kinda liked it. But it wasn’t really built that well, the white scroll ball looked nasty after a while, and eventually stopped working well. The side squeeze feature was great for expose though.
Eventually, I went back to MS. Then the Magic Mouse came out and changed everything. Seemed brilliant on paper. No moving parts to malfunction. So I tried it. The tactile feedback on button press isn’t the same as old school mice, but it’s there. The you have the sensitive right click is spot on, and the omnidirectional scroll feature blew me away. Then there was the solid performance as a whole. Now, even though they are a bit pricey, I always buy Apple when I want a new mouse. My GF is now hooked on Apple Mice as well and she switched from PC.
ergonomics and tech need to be fixed: - current design hurts your wrist over time - glass-like material feels gross - you cannot press two buttons at the same time - in fact you don’t feel buttons at all - oh and no scroll wheel. You have to slide your finger over glass with zero tactile feedback - you can’t right click without hovering the finger t - poll rate stinks - DPI stinks - USB connector in a weird spot.
The entire product in 2024 is a joke.
Well, the Magic Mouse was designed in 2009. I don't know if they updated anything besides the battery for v2 but I suspect not.
Ergonomics is an individual issue. Some designs are universally bad but there are many designs that work for many people and don't work for many others. I've used other mice that don't work for me but work well for others.
Personally never had an issue with the smooth surface. No different than an iPad or track pad but again, this is a matter of individual taste.
What software do you use that requires you to push both buttons at once? (serious question) I've never encountered that so I'm guessing it's rather rare but if you have such software then the MM is definitely not for you.
No buttons was an issue for me at first. I simply learned to lift my index finger slightly when clicking the right 'button.' For me this took bit of learning and now I never notice it.
I have to log in to a virtual Citrix environment for work and use PC programs via a server. For these uses the scroll wheel is clearly better. For everything else (i.e. actual Mac apps) I've found I much prefer the wheel-less scrolling on the Magic Mouse.
I've never had an issue with the poll rate but I suspect that is something that they are looking at updating. You're essentially complaining that the device needs an update in response to an article talking about a pending update.
Agree that the USB connector location is an inexcusable design blunder.
The lack of buttons and lack of a scroll wheel are clearly compromises. The benefit is you get a trackpad-like surface that allows for true 4-directional scrolling and other gestures not possible with a traditional mouse. In the end, whether those are worth it to you as a user is an individual choice.
The advantage of a wired mouse is that it can be used in a situation where multiple laptop users share a docking station. At home, I have a desk with a large monitor, wired keyboard and wired mouse. Any laptop user in my family can walk up to it, plug a single Thunderbolt cable into their laptop, and make use of the monitor, mouse and keyboard. If the keyboard or mouse were bluetooth-only, users would need to go through a pairing process every time we swap who's sitting at the desk. Apple's bluetooth keyboard can be used as a wired keyboard, so it isn't a problem. It would be nice if Apple had a mouse that could be used as a wired mouse.
For some reason it always seemed that Apple could never make a good mouse. I have been using the Logi MX Master 3S. The battery lasts for months, it's USB-C on the front of the mouse so you can charge while you use it. It's ergonomically perfect for my hand and has many additional useful buttons. I doubt I will ever use any other mouse again.
Do you actually believe what you're writing? Is your head really that far up your ass or are you just so in love with Tim that you've lost all rational and critical thinking ability?
Let's analyze your claim - Apple can't put the plug in a convenient spot because then people will leave it plugged in and wreck the battery and Apple will get sued. And likely go out of business.
What about people's iPhones? they leave them plugged in all night while they sleep even though it takes less than an hour to fully charge them. Somehow iPhone batteries aren't dying left and right. Hmm...maybe Apple's smart enough to have battery management software? No, Apple would never be that smart. And what about the thousands of iPads that are used as kiosks, point of sale systems, etc and stay plugged in 24/7? Wow, they still work! I have a 10 year old iPad that's been repurposed. The battery's long dead but it doesn't matter because it's always plugged in.
Let's look at an even better example, the Magic Keyboard. It lets you do exactly what they should have done with the Magic Mouse. The battery runs low and you can plug it in and keep typing. By some miracle we haven't seen legions of lawyers filing class action suits because people have left their magic keyboard plugged in and the batteries have died. Maybe because it's not an issue?
And Battery gate? Your memory is as weak as your reasoning. Apple got sued because they throttled performance without telling people. One can claim that they did it to protect people or that they did it to surreptitiously drive sales. Because they did it in secret both claims are plausible. Had they simply told people there wouldn't have been an issue.
Please, if you're going to come up with excuses, at least try to better than a 6th grader could do.
Nice “straw man” argument. Nobody said the things that you’re responding to. Certainly not me.
Sorry, but I was responding directly to your claims. If they can’t stand on their own without you calling the rebuttal a ‘straw man argument’ then maybe they can’t stand at all.
Hilariously, you were not responding to my claims, but you were proving my point that people get energized by false narratives, and thus continue to imagine that, as in the iPhone battery case, Apple did the opposite of what they actually did.
You wrote: "Let's analyze your claim - Apple can't put the plug in a convenient spot because then people will leave it plugged in and wreck the battery and Apple will get sued. And likely go out of business."
I did not make that claim. At all. Ever.
Apparently, however, you are so emotionally triggered by the port-on-the-bottom thing that you angrily skimmed what I wrote, imagined a claim that was not made, presented that imagined claim, and then argued with profanity and a bit of ad hominem against it. That is the very definition of a "straw man argument."
It's just that much more embarrassing for you that you didn't go back to see that this is what you've done and instead doubled down on your straw man.
The reason the charging port is on the bottom is due to the original removable battery option. The charging port is in the same location as the latch for the removable battery cover. That allowed Apple to save $$ by keeping the industrial design almost identical between the two different versions.
That's ok then. I'm perfectly happy to accept suboptimal design if it contributes to Apple's bottom line.
It would have been suboptimal design without the fast charging capability. But since it could charge for the work day in five minutes, keeping the internal design arrangement almost identical to the removable battery version makes more sense than spending time/money on giving the end user five minutes of tethered work time.
Ah, the same old, tired “it’s not THAT much of an inconvenience” excuse. The people making it are almost as tired as the excuse is.
The picture in the article shows just how ridiculous the design is. I was again reminded of the absurdity when I got an alert that the battery on my Magic Keyboard was low. I simply plugged it in and kept working. I suppose what I should have done is turned it upside down and gone to do something else which I must have needed to do anyway while it charged?
The current design keeps people from leaving it plugged in and using it as a wired mouse. Is aesthetics a reason? Maybe.
The real reason is that this is Apple, and they would inevitably have to defend themselves against a class action lawsuit if they designed it the way you want it, because leaving it plugged in would result in wear and damage to the cable and port from repetitive (mis)use as a wired mouse. It wouldn't matter if they plastered warnings all over the place not to use it while it's plugged in. The lawsuit would claim that it was clearly designed so that you could use it while plugged in, knowing that the eventual damage from an intentionally faulty design would result in sales of more replacement cables and mice.
Put the port on the bottom, and while there's lots of truly absurdist bellyaching about it, there are no class action lawsuits. It's a wireless mouse. It's insanely easy to charge it so you can use it wirelessly.
No evidence whatsoever to suggest this would happen. Completely made up nonsense with little to nothing by way of precedent. Stop making excuses.
No evidence? Among other things, Apple just paid out on a class-action lawsuit that literally penalized them for extending the usability of older iPhones by preventing them from crashing.
Remember "battery gate"? All lithium batteries become weaker over time. It's a fact. It's physics. It's also a fact that smartphones will crash if the processor demands more peak power than an older, degraded battery can produce in a given time. Apple wrote iOS to adapt in those cases, instead slowing the processor in order to spread out (and thus lower) peak power demand on the battery over time, thereby allowing functions to be carried out, if a bit more slowly, instead of letting the phone simply crash and shut down. While it's true that a phone that gets slower and slower may motivate a user to eventually spend the money to replace it with a newer device, it's also true that a a phone that starts crashing and shutting down will motivate a user to much more quickly replace it with a newer device, because it's not just slow, it's unusable. Apple was actually decreasing demand for iPhone upgrades by enabling older devices to last longer, but the class action lawyers twisted that around, ignoring the facts and creating a narrative that Apple was causing older phones to slow down for no reason in order to promote a planned obsolescence scheme. That's a lie, but it was eventually cheaper for Apple to settle the suit rather than letting it drag out, with that lie continuing to be featured in the public square, and continuing to damage Apple's reputation.
They did all this without telling users, or offering them any control over their phone's behaviour. That's why they were sued. Completely different from your ridiculous prophecy.
That’s not the sort of OS feature that usually gets a press release. Preventing system crashes is generally filed generically under “system improvements” or “bug fix.” And what sort of user control would you expect for the battery issue? A dialog box that says “Oof! That’s a tough one for your old battery! How would you prefer to handle it? [Temporary slowdown] or [System crash]”
You’re just proving my point. The twisted, litigious response in “battery gate” is a great predictor for how people would respond if Apple put a charging port on the front of the mouse. In some number of cases of misuse of the device as an always-wired mouse would lead to damage to the charging port, people would blame Apple for bad design and sue them for the damage.
It doesn’t need a press release but it does at least need documentation. That’s exactly what the courts as well as thousands of users and journalists said as well. Software The fact that you think it’s ‘twisted’ logic to expect a company to document how they cripple performance (for whatever reason) speaks volumes.
For the record, I think Apple did this for the right reason (to maintain reliability) rather than to drive upgrades but they were also completely in the wrong to do so without telling anyone. That’s the problem, though - I think this but I can’t prove it. As I’ve said, all they needed to do was to tell people.
The fact that they settled the lawsuit for a huge amount instead of fighting it out in the court is proof enough.
Not necessarily. Dragging the case out just keeps the damaging false narrative in the headlines. At some point it becomes less expensive just to settle the case, admit no wrongdoing, and bring an end to it.
People got bent out of shape over nothing. It is not hard to charge the mouse at night, when you sleep, and you only have to recharge it about once a MONTH. How hard is that? Far better than the original version with replacing AA batteries.
Still using my AA Apple’s mouse with Eneloop batteries.
For ergonomic, I think the complains come from the fact that most people don’t get that you have to hold this one with the tip of your fingers…. which while it’s unusual, isn’t anti-ergonomic.
Still using my AA Apple’s mouse with Eneloop batteries.
For ergonomic, I think the complains come from the fact that most people don’t get that you have to hold this one with the tip of your fingers…. which while it’s unusual, isn’t anti-ergonomic.
It’s actually better for a lot of uses but distinctly worse for one of the most vocal markets in terms of reviews, being games. Given the reviews in those areas are very focused and don’t tend to consider casual gamers as part of the market they tend to be very binary in what they say.
The MM isn't ergonomic unless you have fairly small hands. The clicks and scrolling are done with fingertips but moving the mouse around is done by the hand. Having to lift your finger to change from left to right click isn't ergonomic but can be done by most people with some practice. Some people can adapt to working on a desk that's lower or higher than optimal. That doesn't make it ergonomic. That's the opposite of ergonomic. The MM is not a one-size fits all.
I used the MTP because gestures make actions that mice can't and some faster than can be done with a mouse. It lacks precision though it does well overall. I use a mouse for precision work that I can't get from the MTP. I'm a trackball fan but have tried all the current brands and found the wanting. I've a vintage trackball that's far better than anything made to day but is no longer support. It's a shame.
I'd agree that the charging port was put on the bottom to discourage the notion of using it as a wired mouse, to further the concept of wireless devices. There is the aesthetic aspect shown by the many publicity shots of an iMac with a wireless keyboard and mouse. There's also a practical aspect of having fewer wires or none at all to reduce clutter. This seems like a perfectly Apple concept of "we know what's best" whether they do or not.
That the MM can't be used as a wired mouse is an issue for some people. I think it's unnecessary fuss. You get ample low battery warning, and it's easy to avoid being caught unaware. I've never run out of gas in my cars. I've had a couple of close calls over a lifetime because the gauges weren't honest. So I adapted and overcame. That was an exception. However I've never been caught with a dead MM. I get an onscreen alert and I'll charge at the end of the day or during a break both before the battery is dead. Just like I fill the car when it gets low, even if the needle isn't in the red. I don't wait for a bingo fuel alert. It's the same with charging a wireless device that I rely on.
Now that most of us are entrenched in wireless Apple could put the port somewhere else. They could even allow it to be used as a wired mouse. They do they don't it's all the same to me. If someone wants to work themselves into a state because they can't use it wired, oh well. That's there choice.
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I like it and don't care where the charging port is.
I charged my mouse last night
It doesn’t need a press release but it does at least need documentation. That’s exactly what the courts as well as thousands of users and journalists said as well. Software The fact that you think it’s ‘twisted’ logic to expect a company to document how they cripple performance (for whatever reason) speaks volumes.
For the record, I think Apple did this for the right reason (to maintain reliability) rather than to drive upgrades but they were also completely in the wrong to do so without telling anyone. That’s the problem, though - I think this but I can’t prove it. As I’ve said, all they needed to do was to tell people.
1. Logitech people who bought one because its cheap and then proclaim it the best thing on earth.
2. Razer fans who switched from PC.
3. People who’ve never used a Magic Mouse.
- Ergonomics is an individual issue. Some designs are universally bad but there are many designs that work for many people and don't work for many others. I've used other mice that don't work for me but work well for others.
- Personally never had an issue with the smooth surface. No different than an iPad or track pad but again, this is a matter of individual taste.
- What software do you use that requires you to push both buttons at once? (serious question) I've never encountered that so I'm guessing it's rather rare but if you have such software then the MM is definitely not for you.
- No buttons was an issue for me at first. I simply learned to lift my index finger slightly when clicking the right 'button.' For me this took bit of learning and now I never notice it.
- I have to log in to a virtual Citrix environment for work and use PC programs via a server. For these uses the scroll wheel is clearly better. For everything else (i.e. actual Mac apps) I've found I much prefer the wheel-less scrolling on the Magic Mouse.
- I've never had an issue with the poll rate but I suspect that is something that they are looking at updating. You're essentially complaining that the device needs an update in response to an article talking about a pending update.
- Agree that the USB connector location is an inexcusable design blunder.
The lack of buttons and lack of a scroll wheel are clearly compromises. The benefit is you get a trackpad-like surface that allows for true 4-directional scrolling and other gestures not possible with a traditional mouse. In the end, whether those are worth it to you as a user is an individual choice.You wrote: "Let's analyze your claim - Apple can't put the plug in a convenient spot because then people will leave it plugged in and wreck the battery and Apple will get sued. And likely go out of business."
I did not make that claim. At all. Ever.
Apparently, however, you are so emotionally triggered by the port-on-the-bottom thing that you angrily skimmed what I wrote, imagined a claim that was not made, presented that imagined claim, and then argued with profanity and a bit of ad hominem against it. That is the very definition of a "straw man argument."
It's just that much more embarrassing for you that you didn't go back to see that this is what you've done and instead doubled down on your straw man.
Not necessarily. Dragging the case out just keeps the damaging false narrative in the headlines. At some point it becomes less expensive just to settle the case, admit no wrongdoing, and bring an end to it.
I used the MTP because gestures make actions that mice can't and some faster than can be done with a mouse. It lacks precision though it does well overall. I use a mouse for precision work that I can't get from the MTP. I'm a trackball fan but have tried all the current brands and found the wanting. I've a vintage trackball that's far better than anything made to day but is no longer support. It's a shame.
I'd agree that the charging port was put on the bottom to discourage the notion of using it as a wired mouse, to further the concept of wireless devices. There is the aesthetic aspect shown by the many publicity shots of an iMac with a wireless keyboard and mouse. There's also a practical aspect of having fewer wires or none at all to reduce clutter. This seems like a perfectly Apple concept of "we know what's best" whether they do or not.
That the MM can't be used as a wired mouse is an issue for some people. I think it's unnecessary fuss. You get ample low battery warning, and it's easy to avoid being caught unaware. I've never run out of gas in my cars. I've had a couple of close calls over a lifetime because the gauges weren't honest. So I adapted and overcame. That was an exception. However I've never been caught with a dead MM. I get an onscreen alert and I'll charge at the end of the day or during a break both before the battery is dead. Just like I fill the car when it gets low, even if the needle isn't in the red. I don't wait for a bingo fuel alert. It's the same with charging a wireless device that I rely on.
Now that most of us are entrenched in wireless Apple could put the port somewhere else. They could even allow it to be used as a wired mouse. They do they don't it's all the same to me. If someone wants to work themselves into a state because they can't use it wired, oh well. That's there choice.