Wow, you’re super early to the party.
it’s always the same comments rehashing the same old complaint when the real reason they designed it that way was to make you, the reader, mad
that’s right they hate you specifically
True, that’s why I think Steve Jobs deserved to die of ligma
Who the hell is Steve Jobs?
My balls
Wait
Ha gottem
Tim Apple’s father
Some kind of mind goblin.
I know! That was the year I unfriended Jony Ive and he hasn’t been invited to my birthday since!
Diss me via computer peripheral? I say thee: nay!
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You charge it like that for 15 minutes, and then you get a month of battery life. Odd design choice tho
Or get a normal mouse you can use while charging for 15 mins and then have a month of battery. Or charge for 2hrs while using and have six months of battery.
Or buy two of these mice, so you always have a charged one waiting. (This comment was sponsored by Apple)
Had me in the first half
Or get a wired mouse and it works forever
Yeah same, $4 from kmart
A $4 mouse sucks tho.
They must have thought that people would buy two to have one while the other charged
This must be a joke. That can’t actually be how they designed it right?
They really didn’t want you using it as a wired mouse. Because aesthetics.
Aesthetically this looks way dumber than a wired mouse.
So that when other people see that you’re using the mouse wirelessly, because apple cares about how others perceive your product that you bought, not you.
I mean, Apple users care more about how they’re perceived using an Apple product rather than the cost-to-quality ratio of the product itself. Why wouldn’t Apple cater to that? It’s like printing money, and Apple users are so fucking cult-ish they fixate on things like green text messages.
The best examples of that, is how apple made headphones that yellow, but only the part thats in your ear, so you see it, but nobody else does, and you get temped to buy new ones.
Yeah it’s real. My parents have one.
It’s 100% true
The gen 1 mouse had removable batteries connected to a door on the bottom.
The gen 2 mouse went with a rechargable battery, but they didn’t want to retool the factories making the top shell, so they couldn’t put the charging port anywhere other than the bottom part they were redesigning.
Just charge the mouse overnight when you’re not using it. Also the charge cable disables the sensor so you can’t fix this “design feature” by modifying the mouse. Why not buy the desktop trackpad if you really need an input device when your mouse is charging?
Or buy literally any other mouse that you can use while charging…
Yup, I have a Logitech MX Master 3 at work and it works just fine while charging. Oh, and it has two real scroll wheels, a thumb button (great for switching workspaces), and is really comfortable to use. A magic mouse has none of those things.
At home I have a Logitech Triathlon at home, which I actually like better. There’s no horizontal scroll wheel, but the vertical scroll can tick side to side to get the same effect. It’s smaller, uses AA batteries, is more convenient to switch devices (I have it connected to my Steam Deck and another laptop), and the thumb button is easier to press.
I really don’t like the magic mouse. To be honest, I also don’t like my MacBook Pro, but I need it for work, so whatever. I guess I’m just not the target market.
But my aesthetic!
Charge the mouse over night 😂
The magic mouse is just shit with crappy ergonomics and user-hostile design like most of their hardware. It’s just pretty to look at.
I don’t even think it’s pretty to look at, it’s honestly quite boring. Then again, I don’t like how any of Apple’s hardware looks, so I guess I’m not the target market.
Why should I buy two devices to do the same job, where a single device from any other sane manufacturer would function 100% of the time? Especially after paying a premium for the branded device?
Pay more to get problems others don’t have, then pay even more on top to solve those problems…
You don’t become a trillion dollar company by selling people things they need. The strategy is to induce demand.
Apple designs products so that when broken it requires a repair that costs 50-75% the cost of the device if repaired by Apple. If you’re paying that much to fix it you might as well just buy a new one.
The apple vision pro is glued together, the outer shell and internal lenses have highly scratchable plastic on the outside. Want to fix it, over a thousand. They can’t just remove some screws replace the broken part. This is a deliberate design decision.
It’s not about making good products, it’s about money. If you decide buy a trackpad for when your mouse is charging, apple make bank.
I would love for an evironmental protection agency to hold corporations accountable for designed obsolescence.
do you even regulatory capture, bro?
You laugh now, but let me see you find a better spot for a cable!
…where do all the wired mice put it?
I assume it was sarcasm
This has ruined my week - the mere thought that people actually brought this drives me insane.
You have a very strange sense of humor.
So does apple
Why is this in /funny??
Because it’s hilariously bad design.
Still better than the Mighty Mouse.
And while we’re at it, the razer deathadder v2 x hyperspeed is hot garbage and disconnects so often in 2.4g mode, I just went back to a wired mouse.
I made the mistake of buying a Razer Kiyo Pro webcam. Never again will I buy anything from Razer. Every time it’s connected, it puts an installer on my hard drive unprompted and then tries to install its crapware. I’ve never seen a piece of hardware that puts an exe on your hard drive without user consent.
I think it’s probably totally usable once it finishes charging and you unplug the cord.
Meh. Would make a lot more sense to have the cord plugged in a way that a user can use it while charging
IDK, I’ve used one and it really sucks. It’s awkward to hold and the finger gestures are awkward to perform.
Just get a regular mouse or a big trackpad. I have an MX Master 3 at work and Triathlon M720 at home (I prefer the M720). I’m not a fan of Apple products generally, but the Logitech mice make it way more pleasant imo.
I pretty much only use Logitech mice. The few times I’ve used Apple stuff it felt like I was going to break it
I have a Microsoft Intellimouse Pro on my desktop, but other than that, Logitech seems to be pretty reliable. I did have bad luck with the g305 Lightning, so went for the Razer DeathAdder Mini for my wife.
My work mice have been solid though.
