And even when the S Pen is discharged, all of its features, including Writing/Drawing and Air Command, can still be used, they did a great job with that thing.
Im glad Apple shifted away from the stupid charging design of the first Apple Pencil.
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Apple's Most Questionable Design Decisions in Recent Memory
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Im glad Apple shifted away from the stupid charging design of the first Apple Pencil.
Never liked the skis on the bottom of the magic mouse. It makes it a bad mouse for travel because you need a good surface to use it without catching.
How old is it? The biggest issue I have with a lot of products, not just Apple, is once the rechargeable batteries go TU the device is useless unless you can find a replacement battery. Often the design is such that is not possible.
For you. Others don't need or care about it so it has no tangible advantage.
They could, they just choose a different design.
Exactly. A design choice; if it makes it unusable then get a different designed mouse.
I guess it depends n how you use it. For me, it was no big deal. The other design choices such as lack of multiple button functionality made me switch to a Logitech.
It's a device made to be held in the hand that doesn't conform to the shape of a human hand. It doesn't matter how you use it, it's a bad design for its intended function. As something to sit on a desk and look pretty, it's better than most, but that's not why it exists.
That’s a big design flaw, the notch doesn’t need to take up that much space as it’s only a camera and work led.
It could easily been halft or even 1/3 of its size for aesthetic reasons and still fit everything the menu bar normally contained.
If it had faceID it could be close to the iPhone size instead of monster size of today
apple fanboy? Nope, still on intel macos, use ios14, Sony headphones, evade apple services as much as possible office365, linux, spotify, owncloud..
Misogynistic? No.
It was on topic with respect to the post it responded to, which suggested the solution was simply to purchase a wired mouse, overlooking the fact that Apple's design appears to be the only similar product to have this unusual issue.
Not sure what you mean? Are you complaining about the way it works when charged; since clearly Apple did not intend for it to be used while charging. If you think the overall design when in use as a mouse is bad, I can agree with you; I just don't think the charging method is flawed as some contend.
Or Apple could have simply not used the space and people would complain about the bezel size...
Moving the power button on the iPhone from the top to the side, opposite the volume buttons.
How many times have you taken an inadvertent screenshot of your home screen when you wanted to increase the volume? Or turned off the phone screen when changing volume while the phone is standing in landscape mode while watching a video?
Conversely, I've yet to hear a single good reason for moving it there.
How many times have you taken an inadvertent screenshot of your home screen when you wanted to increase the volume? Or turned off the phone screen when changing volume while the phone is standing in landscape mode while watching a video?
Conversely, I've yet to hear a single good reason for moving it there.
Could be called a design flaw, or even intentional flaw. If I have the courage to call it that.
The MM was designed for millions of people, not you specifically. If the port was moved to a usable place it would have zero impact on you and everyone who don’t use it. But would be an objective improvement to 100% of user with the ability to do something for no cost or negative consequences.
Indeed and made a compromise with zero benefits. Just like the iPhone 4 antennas or Mac Pro wheels
It’s still objectively worse when we already have zero compromise solutions.
It’s still a design critique, you can still criticize android for objectively bad choices as an iPhone user.
It’s not “I guess it depends on how you use it”. This is a factual my true thing. It’s objectively measurable to be bad. It limits function for zero benefits, it requires a clumsy procedure for no reason. Lay it upside down or on its side for no reason when it’s underside is the sturdier and logical standard placement
Physical buttons or swiping is legitimately an opinionated reason depending on your usages needs. Chargin port.. is not.
Well in the same way that I use a physical remote unfortunately- I have to look at it again (not that I claimed the opposite) - the iPhone remote option for me is convenient because overall it works more reliably than the physical remote- the YouTube and YouTube kids apps on my ATV are notorious examples for stopping to respond to the physical remote for whatever reason while the software remote still works. In addition, I have access to my iPhone more often and from different locations in the living room without having to go look for the hardware remote - saves me time overall.
This discussion is not about alternatives. We are all aware that alternatives exist. We solely discuss - on topic - which design choice we consider good or bad. Please refrain from further stating the obvious, I and plenty others have taken our money elsewhere a long time ago.
My bad, you’re correct, the post you originally quoted was the one with the suggestion to buy something else, which really wasn’t on topic.
I didn’t have endless problems but it was small, very easy to lose (especially if you set it down on furniture and it fell into a small opening so you couldn’t see or feel it) and I (mostly) like the new remote better. I wish that they had put some form of ‘Find My” or the sound you can have your watch signal an iPhone to make so you can find it. Dark items in a dark room (low light because you are watching tv) means you can have a hard time finding the remote. Although the newest remotes are bigger, thicker and silver.
Sure, it’s still a flaw they overlooked. The notch is oversized breaking the UI in predictable ways. The notch could literally been 5mm and almost nobody would complain
Removing 3.5mm audio port from iPad Pro 2018 and onwards - now how can you call something, thats obviously also oriented at real crative professionals a PRO, if it doesnt come with basic audio port that almost every audio and video pro would need?!
Seriously?
Ive already said about how little I care about possible wireless charging feature in this years iPad Pro update and how much I would care for real PRO upgrades like bringing back such basic amenities as 3.5mm and adding another USB4/TB4 port to the mix! Or at least 2x USB4/TB4 ports if thats so hard for them to backtrack on omission of 3.5mm port.
Seriously?
Ive already said about how little I care about possible wireless charging feature in this years iPad Pro update and how much I would care for real PRO upgrades like bringing back such basic amenities as 3.5mm and adding another USB4/TB4 port to the mix! Or at least 2x USB4/TB4 ports if thats so hard for them to backtrack on omission of 3.5mm port.
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I dunno man, I'm using it right now and I really don't notice it. What I *do* notice is that they made the menu bar like 6 or 8 pixels taller and it drives me absolutely bonkers.
I think the hockey puck mouse included with the original iMac was the worst, and makes the bottom charger port on the Magic Mouse seem like a minor inconvenience in comparison.
Yup, I mean when it's charged and right-side up, it's still a bad mouse. Don't get me wrong, the inability to use while charging isn't good either, but the fact that it's not even the only major flaw in the product is crazy.
the Touch Bar as pretty awesome I loved it. especially the later version where it had a separate esc key
I agree, Apple went to far in the “form” side of design they forgot it should be usable as a mouse. They probably got an award…