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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.
It's 100% true
Yeah it's real. My parents have one.
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?
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?
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!
Usability too. The hybrid touch/mouse combo hasn’t been implemented better elsewhere (as far as I’m aware) and I find touchpad functionality like that very good. I have to work on a windows laptop for work and I game on a windows machine, but my personal laptop was an $800 Mac and the touchpad and window management is leagues above my $1400 work Windows
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.