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There certainly is regression at all corners:

1. Try finding a close-up of the keyboard of the function key model on the MacBook Pro website. It seems it is just not there or I'm failing to find it. Previously Apple used to have a design section where you could see the products from all angles.

http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/

2. The online shop is just horrible. Even finding the store takes a while and the icons look like clip-art. Complete mess.

http://www.apple.com/shop/accessories/all-accessories

3. This is how the Apple Pencil and the Mighty Mouse are supposed to be charged:

https://i.imgur.com/CvcaGze.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/P8M8pqO.jpg

The Mighty Mouse is also an ergonomic disaster.

4. The iPhone case with battery pack has an aweful design. Who would ever let this pass?

https://i.imgur.com/DyvTE3w.jpg

5. It also feels like the "Designed by Apple in California" book was published 20 years early. It's just like the new Star Wars movie, all those recent sequels of the n-th iteration and Marvel comic adaptations. Nobody innovates anymore and people just replicate what worked well before or only improve it incrementally.

Just wondering, have you been keeping these in a list waiting for this opportunity, or did all that just come out of your head?

The Mighty Mouse charge port is indeed a WTF, but what's wrong with the Apple Pencil? The charging setup looks ugly, but it allows the Pencil to be charged on the go without needing an extra cable that people would lose or leave behind. And it's fast enough (15 seconds of charging for 30 minutes of usage) that the awkwardness hardly matters.

The Mighty Mouse is the same. You get 9 hours of use from 2 minutes of charge time, and macOS warns you ahead of time, enough time for you to go and get a cup of coffee and by the time you're done, you'll probably end up with a full day's worth of charge. Or on the day that macOS warns you, just leave it to charge overnight. You get over a month of charge (I get close to 2), of usage.

The charging port on the back of the mouse is done to stop people from using it with it plugged in, which ruins the overall design, and since most people are lazy, they'll leave it plugged in all the time. Apple designs its products by thinking of an ideal use case first. Then they will try their hardest to make people use it in that ideal scenario.

I don't quite see the WTF here. I understand Apple's design decision and think it's actually quite clever, despite what it looks like at first glance.

Point 3 is incredible. It's like a selfie stick gone wrong (or perhaps, gone more wrong).

Actually there's an adaptor with the pencil that allows you to charge with it a standard lightning cable.

You can plug it into an iPad, but you really don't have to.

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