What surprises me most is that I don't think Apple ever sold an expensive cradle for this mouse to be held upside-down. Die hard Apple fans would have bought it.

Open the door? Oh no this seamless design requires you enter through the bottom hatch.

Pretty flawed design if you ask me

For best experience you should only be able to determine the direction the car is facing by pressing the gas pedal

The fun part of that is you have to charge the ipad first. And Then you can charge the pen using that new ipad charge. I'm charging this thing twice just for one charge basically. No wonder i don't use it.

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This is a positive implementation, esp. when away from pwr sources. The pencil came with a tip for cord charging.

I've had the same cheap Logitech M705 mouse at work for over 10 years. It takes two AA batteries that last for around two years with daily use. Cost $30 when I first got it.

They do still sell it but have cheaped out a bit over the years - the scrollwheel is now plastic instead of metal and the sensors aren't as good - but it still has that great battery life.

I don't understand how these newer, fancier mice can't achieve the same thing. I really hate that everything is moving towards built-in batteries. AAs are easy to instantly replace and I have a bunch of Eneloop rechargeable ones.

The USB-C version they currently have for $80 on their website has the port on the bottom, yes.

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/mxk53am/a/magic-mouse-usb%E2%80%91c-white-multi-touch-surface

I don't think the shape or functionality of the mouse has changed much since the original version that took AAs, so I honestly wouldn't be surprised if this isn't even designers being snooty and it's just Apple not wanting to retool their manufacturing to accommodate a front charging port.

"our users are so fucking stupid, we had to kneecap our design and say it was superior"

I read that's why they did this: to force people to use it wirelessly. Not sure that's really a big win. Wired mice are just fine with me.

Or a good keyboard.

They can make a decent touchpad. They can do a pretty nice touch gui. They still make beautiful displays. But they can't handle the essentials.

Also trackballs > mouse any day.

proto arc

Wow, I expected them to be incredibly expensive, they look nice.