Apple ‘updated’ the Magic Mouse — and the internet is clowning the notoriously bad port placement | Mashable.
Apple ‘updated’ the Magic Mouse — and the internet is clowning the notoriously bad port placement
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| It looks like Apple didn't change anything about the oddly placed port. Credit: Crystal Eye Media / Shutterstock.com |
There's a new Apple Magic Mouse — and not everyone is happy about it.
Apple updated its mouse this week, selling a new $99 version that has precisely one major difference: it can be charged via USB-C now instead of Lightning. That should be met with universal praise, or at least one would think that.
Instead, however, the internet is pissed off because Apple changed the port, but kept the port's location on the underside of the mouse. This means you still can't charge the mouse while using it.
Here are just a few things social media users had to say about this.
Of course, there were people defending the decision, too. The claim being made is that, on a practical level, this usually means leaving the mouse to charge for half an hour once every few months.
Of course, there are other things to dislike about the Magic Mouse as well. Its lack of buttons is a big deal for a lot of folks, too. But Apple had a real chance to change the one thing most people hate about it — and didn't.
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Now it have the new Mac Mini as a Match once it power buttom is also on the botton, most mac users do not shut down or charge the mouse every day but.... or a annoyance to distract for the insame upgrade prices, that supposed to "Think Different" in this reality.
ReplyDeleteI don't see the problem. You could just saw a hole in the desk in the shape of a cross, and then you could still move it both diagonally and horizontally, even with the cable inserted. If you need to move it in any other direction you could just make a note of it and do that move later on when it's fully charged. Or you could just buy a mouse that isn't made by Apple.
ReplyDeleteBecause they don’t want you idiots keeping it perpetually plugged in like a wired mouse from the 90’s
ReplyDeleteCharging 2-3 times a year? Its not a problem
ReplyDeleteThey like it like that.
ReplyDelete😎 Just need 2, what else?
ReplyDeleteBin erstaunt dass es nach so langer Zeit noch immer so viele Evolutionsbremsen gibt die nicht verstehen dass der Anschluss gewollt so platziert ist um die Maus nicht mit ständig angeschlossenen Kabel zu nutzen. 🤷🏻♂️
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ReplyDeleteHonestly just a running joke at this point
ReplyDeleteThis is the reason I still have the AA battery version and refuse to upgrade until they fix this shit.
ReplyDeleteIt’s absurd (still)! … tech is supposed to make our life easier. With this mouse you need to consider and manage your battery charge. Dropped all of them during previous model. Got a razer gaming mouse ever since ❤️
ReplyDeleteIf it ain't broken then why fix it 💁♀️
ReplyDeletecharging the EV mouse lol
ReplyDeleteBut here's the thing. The design is from the AA version. Apple did a simple cost analysis for the rechargeable battery version and figured an "Apple Marketing Message" was way cheaper than a redesign. It's a stupid placement, but as you can see, it hasn't hurt sales.
ReplyDeleteThey didn't do it "better for design", they did it "better for profit".
loss of brand image though, sometimes priceless
DeleteThis would annoy me if I was a person spending money on their expensive and mediocre products.
ReplyDeleteThis is nothing new, Apple gives its customers what Apple thinks they should have, not what it’s customers want
ReplyDeleteIf Jobs were alive, he would have changed it. He never compromised on product design. If he cared about the painting inside a computer, he would have definitely fixed this notorious bad design that has been hurting Apple's brand for years.
ReplyDeleteA 15 minute charge on this mouse will give you around 20 days of constant daily usage. If the “iNtErNeT” can’t find 15 minutes a month to charge a mouse, the “iNtErNeT” has bigger issues than worry about how a mouse charges.
ReplyDeleteagree. So many fault-finding and not appreciating the positives about the product
DeleteYeah but Apple is notorious for thinking their customers are too stupid to know what they want. Isn't that what Jobs was famous for?
ReplyDeleteapple is still stuck in the 00s
ReplyDeleteLol because whatever they do, people still buying their product so they don't care whatever you say
ReplyDeleteYou don't have to buy it you know
ReplyDeleteBuy the logitech mx mouse then. Much professional and ergonomic and more the charging port is at the front!
ReplyDeleteSteve Jobs will never approve of this product.
ReplyDeleteHe likely will come up with a wireless charging mouse and mouse pad that cost $800
Check out what Gruber said on Daring Fireball
ReplyDeleteSo dumb, no reason for it apart from deliberately being inconvenient for users still.
ReplyDeleteThis is done deliberately. If you could use it while it charged, it would have given the mouse infinite life. That is bad for Apple's sales and profit. The fact that you can't use it while it is being charged makes the mouse unusable after the battery gets old.
ReplyDeleteSo they basically did to this what they did with the AirPod Max, slap a usb-c port annnnndddd... that is it. That is all this accessory gets?
ReplyDeleteI know that Apple products are considered high-end but it feels like they assume their consumers are made of money?
As much as I wish I had a 911, I don't have the cash for that.
thye should have atleast added a wireless charging coil at the bottom and be done with it.
ReplyDeleteIn Defense, I Swear, of the Magic Mouse’s Charging Port Placement
ReplyDeletehttps://daringfireball.net/2024/10/in_defense_i_swear_of_the_magic_mouses_charging_port_placement
99% of the use cases no one is looking at the mouse other than the user, certainly not damaging apples perceived brand. And you're likely to now have people taking intentional photos with it looking goofy because of the odd placement. Whereas if it was on the side, sure there would be some user using it that way all the time,but most photos that were shared would not be about the goofy port placement.
DeleteThere are so many better mice even before considering the charge port placement.
ReplyDeleteBut don't worry. They haven't forgotten about wireless charging; that's just being saved for the next revision so you can buy that one, too!
Seriously, though, just get an MX Master or something, and be done with it.
Fundamentally, it’s not even a good mouse. Let’s start there.
ReplyDeletePersonally I do believe it's a lazy money grab. It's at the bottom because that's where the batteries used to be. With something rechargeable and space already there from the previous battery driven design, all they had to do was copy and paste. They won't move it until something drastic happens
ReplyDeleteI always felt like the charging port was the 'red herring' of design flaws with that mouse.
ReplyDeleteEven if you have no major issues with it...you can get something better for you for $80, right? And better for you may not be better for me. I despise the ergonomics of the magic mouse and I need a true middle click; not everyone does.
I think I would understand a lot of people who defend it better if it came free with every mac. Like earbuds aren't great but they're also free so a lot of people never replace them because it's fine. But the magic mouse only comes free with the iMac, and formerly the iMac Pro?
The sheer arrogance of that design.
ReplyDeleteThe word you were looking for was "Courage"
DeleteI am sick of hearing about this. I can survive flipping my mouse over once every few months. I do it when I leave my desk.
ReplyDeleteAs a nervous tic or something?
DeleteI'm sick of hearing people ignore it. My Magic Trackpad 2 has the "technology" to charge while I use it - probably because it has multiple flat surfaces where you can plug it in.
DeleteThe idea that Apple refuses to fix this because they want their mouse to have only one flat surface is so mind-numbingly representative of their broader apprehensions around functionality and is exactly the sort of design we users should be asking questions about.
The bottom charging is annoying, but what made it AWFUL was how slow it charged via Lightning.
ReplyDeleteIf they upped the charging speed with USB-C, it won't be nearly as bad.
I just wish they had a "Pro" mouse with a more ergonomic design. Something closer to the Logitech MX.
I actually love this.
ReplyDeleteIt's terrible design, but it reads like an FU from a company that gets more right than almost any company ever to their critics who have so relatively little to be annoyed with.
That's tall words defending a company that only just paid EU jurisdictions billions of dollars in dodged taxes.
DeleteI'm missing what that has to do with their products?
DeleteThis read like you were totally defeated 😂
ReplyDeleteStill no mouse with Apple MagSafe?
ReplyDeleteif the charger is on the bottom already just make it wireless charging.
After over a decade of using successive Magic Mice for my career, I recently finally got fed up of the negatives and brought my venerable Ducky gaming mouse into work to use instead.
ReplyDeleteYes you can just flip the MM over, plug it in, and go for a coffee, or try maintain a habit of plugging it in at the end of a day. But regardless over the years I inevitably find myself needing to recharge at some time-sensitive inopportune times, leading to ridiculous situations in which I'm plugging it in for a minute, using it for another 15 mins, then plugging it in again etc – in order to desperately get a project over the line. I guess I'm just too busy and scatterbrained at the best of times to have this one extra object to micromanage in a day. Couple this with working in a design studio in which lightning cables are increasingly scarce commodities in today's USB-C -centric landscape, and I just threw in the towel.
Also, the damn thing is slippery, just not all that comfortable if you've large spindly hands, and I accidentally try to use it orientated the wrong way around countless times.
The only thing I truly miss is the omni-directional scrolling which is incredibly useful when panning around artboards, but I'm learning to shift-scroll in the x-axis to get around this.
I also miss idly flipping it over and spinning it like a top.
Since Apple doesn't know how to make a mouse, there's no point in buying one. Problem solved
ReplyDeleteLEt's be honest: these articles are clickbait. IT's in a folder of easy clicks for rainy days. Or easy clicks for starving writers. Or 101 clickbait topics for the successful tech site suit.
ReplyDeleteLet’s be honest: it’s a shit mouse anyway and a more sensible position for the charging port wouldn’t change that. Only tools and idiots like this mouse.
ReplyDeleteYeah, and Teslas are just oversized Apple mice – so fixated on beautiful design that they’re unusable while being charged.
DeleteThat's a stupid comparison. No car can be driven while refueling.
DeleteBut EVs can recharge while braking. :v
Apple is a great example of how you can be good at UI and bad at UX at the same time.
ReplyDeleteThe problem is that people are still throwing a hundred bucks into a flawed designed mouse just because it has the Apple logo on it when there are so many other alternatives, not only with better ergonomics and better charging locations but also cheaper... At the end is just people wanting to be pretentious... And I've been a Mac user since ever, but I put my money where the logic is, not the apple
ReplyDelete...or maybe they've used it and liked it.
DeleteIt's a sleek minimalist-looking mouse that blends in well in the Apple ecosystem and in an interior, it only needs to be charged about 3-4 times a year, and a quick 2-min charge will give you several hours until you reach an overnight charge. Just like Apple Pencil. Most people don'c care.
Deletei'm a Premiere Pro editor and I need to charge it every week. the thing is that it seems to always discharge when I'm in a hurry for a delivery. it's annoying that you can't change and work at the same time.
DeleteThis is the real issue to me. It's an easily fixable issue that means I need to manage yet another f'ing battery in my life to get my work done on time.
DeleteSure it doesn't happen often, but when it does it's really really frustrating, which is compounded by how obvious the fix is.
Well, clearly the solution is that you just need to buy two of them.
DeleteThe problem is not with the port. It's the sensor position! You can't use this mouse with thumb/pinky pair. An ergonomic disaster.
ReplyDeleteI am sorry to disappoint you all but this is a problem only in theory. If you ignore warnings about the mouse running out of power, it is not a device problem. In five minutes you can charge it for an hour, in 30 for a day, overnight for several months. This is not a gaming mouse but it has features that I don’t find in any other products, it is basically irreplaceable at my work. Therefore this little tiny theoretical charging inconvenience does not affect the user experience that much as you would think.
ReplyDeleteWhat features do you find irreplaceable?
DeleteHaving an Apple logo for the status symbol.
DeleteIt makes him feel superior to people on the internet who point out an obvious design flaw.
DeleteOh .. so you're the target audience for the bottom USB. There's a reason that the Iphone 16 sales are bad and young ppl are switching to Android 🥲 Apple is out of touch with the complaints of it's user base. What you're doing is excusing a weird flaw. People have asked for it's design to be more friendly for your hands (it can be very straining for the fingers to even scroll) and a USB port that is places elsewhere so that u DON'T have to charge your mouse overnight. It's silly because they aren't searching for solutions nor are they addressing why they keep making these decisions. But as long as pol settle for less Apple will make such decisions
DeleteProducts should be designed for fallible humans, not for robots.
Deletebut as a PRO user, when the client is in your neck there's no 5 minute waiting.
DeleteA PRO user would be smart enough to pre-charge.
DeleteStill a dumb mouse because you can't hold left and right click at the same time a function that most video games require at some points.
ReplyDeleteThe Playstation 5 is also dumb because it can’t make coffee. No one buys a Mac for software that needs the left and right mouse button simtaneously, no matter what mouse they use.
DeleteForget clicking at the same time, just right-clicking at all is too complex for most Mac users. People buy Macs because they need an interface that is as dumbed-down as possible. Well, I guess there’s also the trendy asshole demographic that buys them because they think they’re status symbols. But no one buys them for functionality or UX.
DeleteThis comment is just screaming that you don't actually understand computers. Tons of people buy Macs for functionality, tons of people like the UI and the hardware (I.e. The UX), and they've only become more competitive over the last several years with Apple's ARM chips in them.
DeleteThere are plenty of reasons to reasonably not prefer macOS, but none of what you're presenting is reasonable.
DeleteI put a single rechargeable AAA battery in my Logitech trackball and it lasts for over two years lmao. I feel pitty for you brainwashed apple bastards.
ReplyDeleteWaits for article to be swarmed by Apple bois saying it's by design and is perfect because Apple never makes mistakes.
ReplyDeleteI've never seen a usable Apple mouse yet, and I've been using them since Apple 2
They are all over the comments with a variety of asinine reasons. It's a damn cult.
DeleteIt’s Apple FAN bois… not “Apple bois” 🙄
DeleteAnd… It’s a horrible mouse ergonomically… But in real world practical terms, the port position is not actually a problem… People reveal their lack of logical, critical, thinking by not being able to work that out!
It's literally not an issue. I've used these for years. They last for months and then you charge it a bit at night and it lasts for months again. So tired of this issue in tech press. This is the definition of clickbait that I've now fallen for.
ReplyDeleteSo great it’s not an issue for you. There are many others (myself included) for whom it IS an issue. Here’s a quick lesson in empathy: a situation can exist even if you haven’t experienced it personally.
DeleteHow is it an issue for you? You get notified when the battery is low and you can partially charge it if necessary when you take a break and fully charge it when you're done. How useful/functional do you think the mouse would be with a cable plugged into it?
DeleteI get no battery level warnings. The mouse dies unpredictably and my computer becomes unusable. This is all by design.
DeleteApple put a huge battery in the mouse so we would not have to think about it, and then when it fails unexpectedly, it renders our computers unusable while we wait for it to charge.
For a company that has built its brand on empathy, delight, and craft, it is infuriatingly bad design.
I get warnings. Perhaps you should look into why you don’t.
DeleteFor medical reasons I must continuously move a mouse around in circles while using a computer. If I stop, I die. The only way I can survive using Apple’s Magic Mouse is to lie on my back on my computer table, thus ensuring ergonomic alignment with the charging mouse. This is sometimes inconvenient when my neighbors see me through the window.
ReplyDeleteMice move around a lot. Apple avoids using certain chemicals that seemingly help cables stay together and not break (either that or they just can’t source good plastic?) letting the keyboard work while charging makes sense because you’re not shifting your keyboard around a ton. Same with the trackpad.
ReplyDeleteBy charging on the bottom it conditions the user not to leave it plugged in all the time but also learn their lesson and periodically charge it when they walk away because they won’t be able to in a pinch. (Keeping in mind the mouse charges very fast.)
This ensure the user won’t leave their mouse plugged in all the time and will use at least one of their fancy wireless accessories as wireless accessories.
If the user truly wants a mouse that can charge while in use Apple has several (Logitech… and… Logitech…) partners who can provide a third party solution in line with the customer’s taste.
Also it lets Apple’s design team live rent free in your heads.
Still. Don't. Care. ... I charge this thing so rarely, where else are they going to put it that's away from the user's grimey, snack-dust covered hands?
ReplyDeleteI dunno, maybe on the end facing away from you, like with almost every other mouse? Like practically every corded mouse?
DeleteThey could allow the mouse to be charged wirelessly and introduce a mouse pad that can charge the mouse, similar to the Logitech “power play” system.
DeleteAt the front, facing away from the user, like every other wireless mouse charging port.
DeleteBy the way, if you've ever had to clean the bottom of a mouse, you should know the bottom gets much dirtier than the top.
Apple is trolling us. Joanna Stern will be next to write an article about this. No such thing as bad press, right?
ReplyDeleteAnyway, who even uses this thing? I got hand cramps from it and switched to a different mouse years ago.
Was horrible when it was launched and is still horrible now.
ReplyDeleteWorse mouse ever.
I love it and use it daily, so speak for yourself. It slides into a bag pocket better than anything and I holds a charge for something like a month - So this gripe-turned-armchair-designer-bandwagon is ridiculous, where else are they going to put the charging port?
DeleteI have multiple mouses that last for several months, actually fit my hand, and can charge while being used.
DeleteHonestly this rules. What an incredible shitpost in physical form. At this point I think Apple is doing this intentionally, out of spite, and I'm absolutely here for it.
ReplyDeleteThe mouse is an ergonomic nightmare as it is.
ReplyDeletePeople in these comments saying that this is a non-issue have clearly never had their mouse go flat on them while presenting something at work.
ReplyDeleteIt’s a non issue. You get an alert when the mouse is low on battery, I think you get one at 20% or 10% and then again a “very low” when at 2-3% (which gives you about half an hour of use still), if you’re on low battery you can just charge it for 5 minutes before going into a critical presentation.
DeleteThis is not a common scenario as the mouse lasts for months after a full charge. Any other wireless mouse can also die on you, and you will still be missing a few minutes while you look for a cable and plug them in to charge / connect.
A non-issue is having the port where it's supposed to be
DeleteYou may consider it a non-issue, but there's no denying it's a stupid place to put the port.
DeleteSure, it can be usable... Just with extra steps compared to pretty much every other most ever. Long battery life is not unique to Apple either.
It's a non-issue if you don't ignore the multiple warnings about the battery being low and prepare for a presentation by making sure all your technology is charged beforehand. I'd prefer to be able to charge and use the mouse at the same time, but getting 8 hours from a 5 minute charge isn't that painful.
Deleteregardless of the port location still looks like a really uncomfortable mouse stuck in the 2000's
ReplyDeleteLiterally the least worst thing about it
ReplyDeleteHow about sensors and a wireless stack that aren't 11 years old and doodoo when reviewed 5 years ago to start? And redesign it for human hands.
https://www.rtings.com/mouse/reviews/apple/magic-mouse-2
I love it!
ReplyDeleteThis and putting USB 2.0 in the iPhone 16 are two of Apple’s dumbest moves this year.
ReplyDeleteDear apple user. Apple has nothing but contempt for you and knows you will still flock back for their overpriced goods.
ReplyDeleteAwwww, keep using Microsoft or google spyware with shoddy UI, ads etc.
DeleteThis is such a 2009 take.
DeleteStill holds true with new ads arriving in the Microsoft Start menu and Google continuing to refuse letting ‘customers’ pay with money (rather than their privacy) for their services.
DeleteDoes it really matter though?. It's a wireless mouse. If it runs out of power how hard is it to plug in for 5 or 10.minites to get you through the day, the. Leave plugged in over night them months untill you do that again? Just like if your mouse runs out of battery you spend 5 minutes looking for replace batterys if you even have any?
ReplyDeleteYes it matters its idiotic. Not only does my mouse which is not labeled "magic" have a ubs c charging port at the from where it should be, you can also just swap out the rechargeable battery for another on in a pinch. Don't be that oathetic sheep who makes excuses for terrible unnecessary design decisions.
DeleteIf your mouse runs out of one-use batteries, you replace them in 5 seconds, not 5 minutes. But either way, modern wireless mices (those with LiIon rechargeable batteries) can be used while charging. Just like your phone can be used while charging, right? It would be reaaally stupid if your phone were to shut itself down while charging, isn't it? Like "really really stupid" level.
Deleteyou know what that would be kind of incredible if there was a phone you couldn't use while charging. like, if the charging port was under the screen, and you had to flip the screen up to access it, making it unusable.
Deletemy bluetooth headphones can't be used while charging, which is also stupid, but they have a 3.5mm jack so I carry a cable and a dongle around just in case. god forbid my phone and headphones need charging at the same time though.... 😩
Apples to oranges.
DeleteFor me it matters.
DeleteI am a stupid human being that constantly ignore prompts to recharge my mouse, even when it is near death. I cannot count the amount of times where my logitech mouse have saved my sorry ass from having to give up whatever interaction i was having, simply because the charging port allows me to use it while it is charging.
This apple mouse just plays dead, if it goes out of power.
It's funny because my magic mouse is the only one I'd ever run dead. My logi prompts me and I just plug in my phone charger that's on my desk already and forget about it until my next session. When the magic mouse starts prompting me im actively using it and can't charge it, and then why I'm done that is no longer on my mind to do.
DeleteNot being able to charge while using it breaks the workflow of my ADHD mind
It matters, because it's a product released by the richest company in the world - a company that repeatedly tells us how incredible its design and engineering is at any given opportunity.
DeleteThis is top-tier trolling, but instead of people who don't use their products (a favorite target), it's their own users. Apple has a long history of spiting its own best interest in order to not admit a mistake, but this, including this from-below promo image, is taking it to another level.
ReplyDeleteLol. i have 2x MX Masters and have a magnet micro USB charging dongle thingy (not apple magsafe) on the mouse n keyboard since 2020. I magnetically attach the cable to the mouse. It's been working properly for years now. Since port is on the front, where it should be, I can still use it during charging.
ReplyDeleteMost mice can be used while charging and many you can just swao out the battery as well.
DeleteWhy is it still there you ask? Shareholder Value.
DeleteDoes Apple have some kind of internal value right now of “low effort”? The processors are wonderful. But the lack of effort on the over all products year over year is mind-numbing.
ReplyDeleteWe are in Apple's supply chain maximizing era. Take the iPad Mini, if there's not significant customer feedback about the screen- leave it and toss in AI with a binned processor. Yes, it could be better, but it doesn't have to be better.
DeleteWhat if Apple have a secret deal with Logitech to keep the Magic Mouse mediocre? The situation is so absurd that it's my only explanation for this mouse and indeed most of the terrible Apple mice that came before it. I find it hard to believe the people who design the peripherals don't know how bad the mice are from almost every metric.
ReplyDeleteFirstly, it means the mouse isn't plugged in all the time, which reduces the chance of a fire.
ReplyDeleteSecondly, anyone who needs a wheel button and a claw-grip is going to leave this thing in a drawer.
Does Razer have a patent on plugging in a charging cable where the cable for a wired mouse would go, the top front edge?! That just seems like the most obvious place to plug a wireless mouse in, that or in some sorta charging dock, neither of which Apple has decided to do because they do not care what people actually want so much as to dictate what they've decided everyone wants, critics be damned.
ReplyDeleteThere's clearly not a patent, considering everyone but Apple puts the charging port there.
Deletethat would be such a dumb and obvious thing to get a patent on, so I could totally see that being granted.
DeleteWhat the World would look like if people were able to plug in their mouse before leaving office/going to bed/whatever when the battery level is around 20% instead of just waiting it's dead?
ReplyDeleteYou wanna see truly terrible design? Just use the AirPods Max for 2 years.
Honestly I'm surprised it has a port at all. I genuinely expected MagSafe.
ReplyDeleteBecause Apple no longer needs to innovate.
ReplyDeleteLook at the Airpod Max update after 4 years.
Look at how long it took Apple to put USB-C on their devices (from forcing us with Macbooks in 2015, almost 10 years ago!) until they finally finish the transition now.
The Magic Mouse was first released in 2009; Steve Jobs didn't pass away until 2011.
ReplyDeleteThe reason Apple is still shipping this terrible design is probably that Steve Jobs argued for it to be this way.
The most logical place to put the USB-C port would be the front of the mouse, but I'm sure Jobs didn't want people to just leave it plugged in as a corded mouse (because reasons).
This doesn't explain why the keyboard plug is in a sane place at the front. People sometimes leave it plugged in, sometimes not.
DeleteA keyboard being plugged in, in no way affects the use of keyboard. A cord on a mouse absolutely will affects the use of a mouse though! You might argue it's a marginal effect, but it does affect it.
DeleteI mean if you're gonna argue degrees of marginality, you could say that a corded keyboard also affects placement and can be annoying in the same ways. You're not moving it around all the time, but I've found keyboard wires to be subtly annoying with regard to setting other things down on your desk. And clearly, Apple doesn't give a rat's ass about the actual performance or tracking of the Magic Mouse, so it's strange that having it wired temporarily would be a huge blocker for them.
DeleteI don’t think that they were worried about it being attached temporarily… I think they thought that if they put the cord on the front, a large portion of people would leave it plugged in permanently… And so Apple thought that they were saving people from themselves… As I said A little strong handed, but I think that’s their thinking… And I agree that I think a large portion of the population would actually just leave it plugged in permanently marginally degrading the use and not fully utilizing the features of the product🤷🏽♂️
DeleteIf they thought relocating it would move the needle even a bit, they would have. Memes are less important than $.
ReplyDeleteMemes is free PR
DeleteBut if it’s negative PR, that’s not good for business.
DeleteGood or bad PR is still PR. I'm fairly convinced Apple is doing this "controversial design" with intention. It's a big enough controversy to keep people talking about it left and right but not big enough to be e deal-breaker. And Apple have been doing it with many other products.
DeleteOk, they deserve all the memes. Just replacing the port without a redesign is such a Tim Cook move.
ReplyDeleteI don't think this is anywhere as big a deal as tech media makes it out to be. The ancient sensor and polling rate on the other hand? Terrible at this price.
ReplyDeleteAgreed. The battery life on it is pretty great, and my understanding is that it can charge to a full day's worth of juice in around 5 minutes, so if for some reason you DON'T decide to charge it the evening you get the low battery alert, you can take a quick break and then finish the day, and charge it overnight. The biggest issue IMO for the Magic Mouse is the ergonomics - it's just not very comfortable to hold, but otherwise I think it's a nice device.
DeleteI use both a Magic Trackpad and a Logitech MX 3S on my Mac, and both last about a month or more on a charge, and I think I've charged my MX 3S while in use once in the last year...and I didn't really need to, as I still had 20% remaining.
My Logitech wireless mouse has two AA batteries, and I think I replace them about once a year. It's unfathomable to me to have to stop what I'm doing to charge the mouse for five minutes.
DeleteYou get a warning when it's "low" aka another full day of use. Plug it in when you're done, come back to a full battery.
DeleteYou mean Apple doesn't care about ridiculous edgelord memes? Color me shocked!
ReplyDeleteThe charging port… really doesn’t bother me. The design, though… it’s time for something new. I appreciate the attempt, but it’s time.
ReplyDeleteWhy isn’t this a war crime banned by international law???
ReplyDeleteOf course, I keep thinking about Tesla’s I,Robot knockoff car that looks like an Apple Mouse. It’s about small enough to turn it over and plug the charging cable in the bottom.
ReplyDeleteAt this point it’s stopped being annoying and it’s just hilarious to me. At least it warns you before it dies…
ReplyDeleteNo fracken way!? First of all I never thought I’d still be alive when they would finally update this but for them do still put it at the bottom is just another slap in the face right after the fat bezels ipad mini “upgrade”. Who does Apple think they are!? Sorry but after this Tim has to go! They have lost their mind at Apple dishing out nonsense updates and zero innovation the last few years. No bonus for you Tim.
ReplyDeleteWhat would your re-design look like?
Deleteit's a mouse, it's not rocket science.
Deletethat doesn't answer my question. People who get apoplectic about it's current design don't seem to have thoughts on how it could be improved.
DeleteMake the aluminum base 0.25" taller and slap a charging port on the front, under the curved glass. Done.
DeletePut the charging cord on the front
DeleteNot certain, but I'm pretty sure this is sarcasm.
DeleteApple announces ‘exciting’ new iMac, with ‘playful’ new colors and ‘coming soon’ Apple Intelligence. Zero comments. Magic Mouse announcement gets people revved up on a Monday morning!
ReplyDeleteThe article about the new iMac has 64 comments already...
DeleteHa ha, didn’t age well.
DeleteClearly Apple wants you to use the trackpad.
ReplyDeleteThis aggression will not stand, man
ReplyDeletehttps://media.tenor.com/8KR6VItEt7EAAAAC/i-dont-want-to-live-on-this-planet-anymore-futurama.gif
ReplyDeleteCourage
ReplyDeleteI just plug it in during lunch and let it charge then. I'm not at my desk at that time.
ReplyDeleteThey should probably just make it charge inductively
ReplyDelete✨ nobody cares ✨
ReplyDeleteI still don’t see the big issue. Wireless mice charge quick enough these days that there’s not really a reason to stay wired throughout the day.
ReplyDeleteEven if my MX Master 3 shows a low charge, I’ll plug it in for a few minutes at lunch and come back to a weeks worth of battery time.
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ReplyDeleteApple doesn't operate on the concept of what the customer wants. It operates on the concept that they will tell the customer what they want, because they genuinely believe their customers don't have the bandwidth to make those decisions themselves. And, as is the case whenever The Verge ridicules the underside charging port on the mouse, you're about to have a slew of apple users prove them right.
ReplyDeleteTheir users designing a mouse with a port on the front is analogous to Homer's car design though.
Deleteah yes, the extravagant and unusual feature of [checks notes] being able to use something while charging it. truly unheard of.
DeleteBecause it's not such a big deal? The mouse lasts for months and takes tens of minutes to charge.
ReplyDeleteAnd as far as ergonomics are concerned, someone will appreciate the flat, thin shape and especially the very sensitive touch surface.
It’s still Papyrus, they just put it in bold
ReplyDeleteWhy all the hate? Masochists deserve a product too!
ReplyDeleteapple: “wouldn’t it be funny if—“
ReplyDeleteFree publicity.
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