Linky: https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/28/24276043/apple-new-usb-c-magic-mouse-charging-port-bottom
Amazing, brilliant design!
Extremely funny how dedicated to this one particular stupid design decision they are.
It means you have to buy a second one to keep going while it charges
The closest I can get to an explanation is that someone at Apple lives in perpetual A E S T H E T I C terror of someone somewhere leaving their mouse plugged in all the time
I think this is their stated reason, or at least that was part of the dialog last time around.
The Cult of Steve Jobs only intensified after his death, and he made bad design decisions too but his (described by his own employees) "Reality Distortion Field" demanded it with no corrections.
honestly it's not THAT bad a decision. you need to plug the mouse in for like only a minute to get a month of battery life. you aren't going to be in a situation where you need to use the mouse when it's charging.
still, screw apple though
The few apple users who are being productive are using drawing tablets anyway.
When the battery dies it just becomes e-waste — if you could charge and use it at the same time, then it could at least still be useful as a wired mouse for many more years.
If it has pass thru charging, yes. Otherwise, it’s just ewaste.
Unless the mouse body is sealed like ultrasound welds, it’s openable and the battery is a replaceable commodity. Thirty seconds on temu, then 15 min w a soldering iron and mouse is back in business.
Unless they serialized the mouse. Then you’re looking at pulling the battery, pulling whatever chip identifies it, and sweating it on to the new one. I want to say there’s no way they’d serialize a mouse battery but it is apple after all so who even knows.
It has to be a bit by the corpo engineers, there's no other explanation
Not surprising, coming from the same folks that inexplicably decided to not make separate settings for touchpad and mouse scrolling directions.
People dunk on charging port, but apple mouse is dogshit ergonomically and right click wise as well, which i feel are more important dogshit characteristics (gestures are stellar though, ngl)
can you imagine if the port was visible while the mouse was being used? that would destroy the visual field. like when there's a poor person within 18 meters of my Tesla using FSD to take me to Shangy's Latest talk.
yes, i am a design technospiritual futurist and i experience the world in a heightened state of maximum consciousness and my mind is so powerful that i appreciate this decision unlike you mud eating cretins who spend less on a laptop than i do on a haircut.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
How often do mice even die? I have one that takes AA batteries and needs to be changed every two years.
Baby steps, I guess... At least it no longer looks like an extremely well-endowed turtle on it's back when charging.
Still probably one of the most uncomfortable, anti-ergonomic, borderline e-waste $100 mice ever.
