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I'd love to know the inside story about why this hasn't been fixed yet, after so many years of a clearly deficient design. Wasn't there an Apple mouse at one point that did have a connector at the head of the mouse, so you could just use it as a wired mouse while charging? I vaguely recall the charging port on the bottom was blamed on Jony Ive (no idea if that's reasonable) wanting a certain aesthetic, but IIRC the small port on the head of the mouse was hardly noticeable. It wasn't as intrusive as, say, the iPhone notch, which has to be looked at whenever you use the phone.

I'm reminded of the situation where General Motors kept thin, uncomfortable metal keys decades after other manufactures released more ergonomic keys, or even remote key fobs.

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If you look at the front edge of the Magic Mouse, you will see that it is very thin. The top service some down to just a few millimeters above the desk surface. There isn’t room for a port there. Apple would have to redesign the mouse and they clearly don’t want to do that.

If you talk to people who use the Magic Mouse, they will mostly tell you that it is a non-issue. The mouse goes months on a charge and charges quickly. Just plug it in and grab a cup of coffee.

It doesn’t need a fix, the thing goes weeks between charges and you can charge enough for several hours of use in like 10 minutes, from a totally dead battery. It’s a little silly but not an actual problem. There are a bunch of other reasons to prefer a different mouse, mostly having to do with ergonomic preferences or needs for real buttons and a physical scroll wheel (it’s a terrible mouse for gaming, for instance).

I think it does. I've been interrupted more than once mid-flow while programming to recharge the battery. Or say, you're in the middle of a presentation. There are lots of mission-critical uses, which can't easily tolerate an interruption. You can't stop to recharge, and it's silly to compulsively check the battery, or carry multiple mice to avoid that situation.

When the system was new, there was a reasonable warning ahead of time on the battery level, but now the warning is not sufficient for a work around, and the mouse much be charged within a minute or two.

The port location is not the reason Cook isn’t using it. The article just made a guess.

Port location is a non issue.

The Magic Mouse just sucks in general. It’s a terrible mouse. Poor ergonomic. No real right click. No physical scroll wheel.

They went way too fancy with the design. I’m guessing it was a Jonny Ive design.

And the article was wrong about Tim Cook not liking or not using the Magic Mouse.

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/11/17/tim-cook-didnt-say-that...

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