The reality is that the Magic Mouse charging mechanism, short of having infinite battery, is more than adequate for the most “hardcore” of users. As a daily user of the Magic Mouse, I typically charge mine once a month and have never found myself in a situation that I’ve been out of charge, let alone out of charge and without a few minutes to spare.
A mere 3 minutes of plugin time will gain you a full day’s charge while 2-3 hours will give you a few weeks’ worth. Like most modern devices, the Apple Mouse charges ridiculously fast. What if the Magic Mouse’s lack of foresight into real-world usage with its inability to be plugged in while in use was not a sacrifice of form over function? Instead, what if that design choice was intentional? This begs the question-what did Apple hope to achieve or change within us when they made that design decision?Īs I alluded to before, the answer lies in the complaint-the inability to use the Magic Mouse while plugged in. This is among one of the worst Apple designs ever.
However, Apple kept the much-mocked decision to place the Lightning charging port at the bottom of the mouse, which means you can’t charge the mouse and use it at the same time. In his review of the new colorful iMac lineup with matching Magic Mouse colors, Ben Sin at XDA wrote: From the company’s inception, Apple products, through design, have challenged our usage and pushed industries forward which brings us back to the Magic Mouse and its brilliance. A handful of years later, the world seems to not only have survived this “tragedy,” but in fact thrived as the adoption of wireless earbuds and countless other accessories increased. The same is true on mobile-” An iPhone with no audio jack? How will I plug in my headphones?” cried the pundits. When Apple removed these starting with MacBook Air, they were called “user hostile.” In both instances, Apple was ridiculed until everyone followed. In just the last two decades, long before anyone else, Apple took away the ethernet port to dramatically increase the adoption of Wi-Fi and got rid of CDs to usher in the era of the modern App Store.
One thing that Apple does better than anybody is take away what we think is core technology in order to push industries forward. Both devices are afforded the ability to be tethered to a Lightning cable and sit on your desk for full use while charging away.Īgain, did you catch the complaint against the Magic Mouse and the praise for the Magic Trackpad and Keyboard? The same isn’t true for the Apple Magic Trackpad and Magic Keyboard.
Instead, the answer lies in the question, or at least in the complaint-you cannot use the Apple Magic Mouse, a device that is meant to move around and be free during use, while it’s charging. Was it the hubris of Jony Ive? Sacrificing everything in pursuit of the sleekest design possible? That seems like such a comically surface level answer that, by nature, must be wrong, and I believe it is. “ What a moronic design! I can’t even use the damn thing while it’s charging!” This begs the question-why would Apple, a company known for putting thought into designing the inside and outside of a product just “shove” the Lightning charging mechanism on the bottom of the Magic Mouse and therefore render it unusable while charging? Although this still feels so so wrong ? /YTJhzvN3Rm- Carolina Milanesi June 6, 2021Īnd at first glance, I get it.