Aesthetically the mouse is great, very beautiful, especially for the time it came out.
The design of the mouse is amazing in several ways, but very lacking in others, specifically ergonomics and charging. In fact, had they made the mouse larger, in all dimensions, they could have solved two birds with one stone. The mouse is too small to comfortable use for most people, making it larger would fit the human hand better and decrease the amount of contortion your hand has to do to use it. And with this extra height they could have put a charging port on the front! Win win on the design side of things!
There are several products you can buy that help with this, I have both wings and a palm bump added to my magic mouse that makes it much more comfortable. I tried to take one apart once to explore making a new case for it that addresses some of these concerns, but I ended up breaking it.
I think that final bit really is the crux, the scrolling and gesture support is so good I'm sufficiently motivated to try and solve the problems with the mouse. A beautifully flawed product.
On point. People too often confuse aesthetics with design.
Be as pedantic as you want, but aesthetics is an aspect of design, not exclusive to it.
If I say "the world was not the most important aspect of the policy, _USA_ was", then that does not imply that USA is not part of the world.
(and these days when everything else is USB-C, instead I'm scrambling to find where my damn lightning cable has gone)
Although I get why they would not put the port on the back - their Lightning cables are not built for the repeated motion/strain of a plugged-in mouse. Anything more strain than plugging your phone in and setting it down causes the cables to break down in months.
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The keyboard has 3-5x the battery life of the trackpad. Not sure how they can be similar to the mouse if they’re not even similar to each other.
...I still prefer my Logitech mouse that works plugged in though.
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Was this never even considered an issue? As in, did it just never get considered as something bad? Did it never get focus grouped in a wide enough range of users for someone to question this? Was it noticed, questioned, decided it was works as intended?
It just seems like with a company the size of Apple who all work under draconian NDAs, why not have an internal employee focus group? Hubris of the design silos?
We may disagree—I think that surely there must have been some way of solving the problem—but it seems very unlikely to me that they missed it.
They just exercised judgement that I think was suboptimal.
Of course, they are selling millions of products and making billions of dollars doing it, so not sure I can claim I’m unambiguously right.
That’s the theory. In practice, charging it whilst getting a coffee gives it enough battery life to finish the day. Sure, you need to remember to charge it then. But you never have to chose between using it or charging it for more than a couple of minutes in the real life.
It's a stupid location for a charge port but the battery lasts for several weeks if not months; it's just not that much of an issue in real world use.
In my experience, this is exactly why it's an issue.
All my less tech savvy family who use this mouse forget to charge it because "it never needs charging" ... and then it runs out of juice whilst they are in the midst of something and now they can't use the mouse.
I have no idea how this is a problem for anyone.
My Magic Mouses battery only lasts for 5 to 10 minutes... if I could use it while plugged in I could still use it. As it is I can just toss it.
People who don't like pink bags don't buy pink bags.