New Magic Mouse With USB-C Port Expected at Apple Event Next Week

[theluggage]

I question if Jony really cared much about functionality and usability.

He and Jobs made a great team - I'd like to imagine that they had many "full and frank exchanges of views" as part of the design process.

However, the MM2's charging problem is that it was a lazy re-working of the original AA-powered MM.

Personally - charging port issue or not - using a Magic/Mighty mouse of any generation for 5 minutes makes me want to gnaw off my own hand - but I'd put that down as subjective, since some people seem to like it. The only machine that forces the Tragic Mouse on you these days is the iMac 24" and I'd seriously recommend taking the option of a cut-price Magic Trackpad instead (...and buying a 3rd party mouse that fits your hand for those times when only a mouse will do).

 

[iPay]

Jony gonna be mad if they move the charging port.

That's why they moved him, yeah? Fortunately, the Deadbug Design didn't spread over. Maybe if he could have added folded legs beneath...

 

[SanderEvers]

This time they will put the charging port on the top of the mouse. Right in the middle of it.

 

[HobeSoundDarryl]

Tim is wirelessly connected to Siri… maybe they are becoming one and the same. Maybe this will be their investment in AI. Siri has absorbed Tim Apple and become “Tiri”

Hey Tiri

"I don't know what you mean by ___________... but we think you're going to love it."

 

[deebinem]

I hope it's on the bottom again, just to see every tech blogger lose their minds over the next few weeks 🤣🤣

Few weeks? People would lose their collective minds for ****-ing YEARS over it.

 

[pauloregan]

Please keep the port in the same place.

 

[breather]

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Worst design ever you can’t use it while charging it 🙄. I litteraly have to have backup mice. No one wants to babysit a battery level to make sure you’re not going to run out of juice. Please move they port elsewhere

You don't have to babysit it, you will get a notification when you are running low, and then you will have many hours before it runs out. Surly you can find time to charge it. Over lunch, when you take a dump, over night.

Time Management.

Ergonomically I won't argue, people like what they like. That's just fine.
It works well for MY needs.

 

[Spanky Deluxe]

Charging for a couple of minutes will give you hours of use, not being able to take a few min break and charge your mouse is just bad time management. Let the charging port be where it is and add wireless charging if you wanna do something new.

I don't understand how anyone could conceivably defend Apple in this. I love Apple products but they're not perfect and putting the charging port underneath instead of at the front of the mouse was an idiotic decision that only the most tunnel visioned Apple fan could defend. The fact that you're mocking people and suggesting they have 'bad time management' because you think they are idiots at complaining on not being able to use the mouse while charging is just utterly ridiculous. It's an awful design and should never have been released.

 

[breather]

Contrary to many others I‘ve been using the Magic Mouse (both generations) since its introduction in 2009 and have been pretty pleased with it. I’ve configured lots of extra gestures with BetterTouchTool and it has been smooth sailing so far.

BetterTouchTool is awesome

 

[subjonas]

The port placement is silly on this mouse, but to be real for a minute, you only have to charge it like once every few months. It also gives you tons of warnings beforehand so it's very easy to just charge it in any downtime. Corny, but honestly more annoying in theory than in practice.

Now the real issue with the Magic Mouse is just that it's an awful mouse to use. It's heavy, it doesn't really track particularly well, and it's hard to hold onto. Even the touch gestures it is supposedly built around aren't that great. No pinch/zoom, for instance. Honestly the ONLY thing the MM does well is enable very smooth scrolling.

But, Apple has a long and storied history of shipping terrible mice.

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Always fun to have to look down to see if your mouse is oriented correctly.


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Came out in an era when every PC mouse had a scroll wheel and right-click -- but this bravely had neither!


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Remember this bad boy? Every few weeks that g-d little rubber pea would get gummed up and stop working. You could fish it out with a pin, wipe it down, and jam it back in again. Very fun!

I miss cleaning mouse balls with qtips and rubbing alcohol.

 

[Jack Burton]

I rarely have to charge my pro mouse. I just plug it in at the end of the day after a few weeks of use.

I'm one of the people who like it. It's low profile, smooth, and doesn't cause hand cramps for me after long use. I manipulate it with just my fingertips.

I know it's a meme at this point, but I enjoy this thing.

 

[deebinem]

It's an awful design and should never have been released.

Probably because the designers had bad time management.

 

[jonnysods]

Every time I see that picture it just feels like parody.

 

[victorvictoria]

Why on earth did Apple put the port on the bottom? Sure, ideally people would remember to charge it overnight and have it ready in the AM, when you get to work. But you've forgotten, I've forgotten, everyone has forgotten to charge something. I guess if we're smart enough to know how dumb we all are, we'd buy ourselves a wired mouse as a backup to use while we charge up this exquisite piece of engineering. That's a big if, though.

 

[xnu]

It will come with a MagSafe Track Pad that charges the mouse when it is an upside down position. "Dead Mouse Charge®"

 

[zorinlynx]

I wish they would improve the Magic Mouse. Honestly, it's a crap mouse. It feels lousy in my hand. It has more latency than other mice I've used, even other wireless mice. The sampling rate is lower than other mice I've used. It just feels like you're slogging through mud when using it.

Even the "mighty mouse" with the scroll ball was a lot more responsive and felt nicer in the hand than the Magic Mouse. The main problem with that design was that the scroll ball was unreliable and would fail relatively quickly.

I hope the Magic Mouse gets a new and better design so I might actually have a desire to use it.

 

[jdclifford]

Show stopper!

 

[breather]

Congratulations - you just kicked the can down the road for a few hours.

My Logitech mouse with sensibly located charging port gives me exactly the same option plus the ability to use it plugged in and finish whatever I was doing while it gets a full charge and doesn't need to be plugged in again for weeks. It's simply better.

The Tragic Mouse is just incredibly lazy design from a company who like to make $300 coffee table books about their wonderful design. There's one reason for that design - they couldn't be bothered to come up with a new design when they updated the old Magic Mouse from AA batteries to rechargeables, and just did the absolute minimum.

Well if you don't like it, don't use it.

Im just saying that to take 5 min to charge it when it out of power isn't a life altering moment, go take a coffee, stretch your legs and when your back you will have hours of charge in it. Well enough to make it to nightfall and charge it over night.

Ergonomically I won't argue, people like what they like. That's just fine.
It works well for MY needs.

 

[ThomasJL]

I question if Jony really cared much about functionality and usability.

It was always about aesthetics and how nice it would photograph for his portfolio.

Jony Ive needed Steve Jobs to keep his worst tendencies in check. Tim Cook is an MBA suit who, like most MBAs, is mediocre. Cook is not a products person. He is focused on money and pleasing his shareholders. He doesn't care about providing customers with products that have excellent functionality. What's even worse is that so many people on an Apple forum like this support Cook's actions and will defend awful decisions like having a charging port on the bottom of a mouse.

 

[Ambient80]

Few weeks? People would lose their collective minds for ****-ing YEARS over it.

Hahaha, you're not wrong! Personally, I was always just "whatever" on it all. Like yeah it seems kinda silly to have it on the bottom, but also when I had one it took like... 20 minutes or so to charge, so it never particularly bothered me.

 

[Sinfonist]

The port placement is silly on this mouse, but to be real for a minute, you only have to charge it like once every few months. It also gives you tons of warnings beforehand so it's very easy to just charge it in any downtime. Corny, but honestly more annoying in theory than in practice.

I have a few minutes before I leave for my flight and I need to print my boarding pass, or I have a work task that has a tight deadline to complete. I can't use the wretched mouse because it needs to be charged. It's annoying in practice if you use your Mac for work purposes... I keep a spare mouse lying around for those occasions.

 

[k1121j]

You don't have to babysit it, you will get a notification when you are running low, and then you will have many hours before it runs out. Surly you can find time to charge it. Over lunch, when you take a dump, over night.

Time Management.

Ergonomically I won't argue, people like what they like. That's just fine.
It works well for MY needs.

I'm not the only one who finds this to be an inconvenience sooooo im gonna bet a good majority find this to be a pain. On the flip side yay for you.

 

[HobeSoundDarryl]

I am no Apple Fan nor anti-fan extremist. And I own Magic Mouse and the prior one that used dual AA batteries. IMO: much of these comments are "mountain out of mole hill."

From a practical standpoint, I take regular peeks at the bluetooth menu for various bluetooth accessories. It shows the amount of charge left in keyboard and mouse at a glance. My "rule" is when MM dips below about 40% change, flip it over at the end of the day and let it charge. 100% by morning and then good for another 30-60 days. I never accidentally reach 0% charge where I could need to use it while wired because I just can't go 30-60 days without having some reason to check that bluetooth menu.

If I was unable to use the bluetooth menu "quick peek" method and accidentally did reach 0%, I could flip it over, go take 15 minutes (a short work break, imagine that) and then come back to a mouse with enough charge to easily complete the day if not more. End of day, flip it over, put it on charge and it will be 100% by morning.

If I just couldn't ever look at the bluetooth menu, I might make it a monthly thing so that every "last day of the month" I recharge the mouse. Since it is generally good even in heavy usage for more than 30 days, that would do it too. OR I could let the automatic notification remind me it is time to charge, use it until end of that day and then charge it overnight that night.

Move the port to the front- where it seems to have to go to address this collective whine- and no big deal. If the mountain of USB-C lint magnet nonsense was true in thousands of posts leading into the launch of iPhone 15 (where did all of that go by the way?), that position should maximize sweeping up any lint that accumulates on desks... so win:win.

However, if it stays in the SAME spot, at least I'd be fine with that too... as it's never been a problem at all in practical use... though key to that is taking peeks at the bluetooth menu at least once each month and recognizing it's time for an overnight recharge well before 0%.

 

[mashinhead]

It will plug into the top this time. Right in the middle of the mouse.

 

[Nautilus007]

Knowing how LAZY Apple has become in recent years , I doubt they will modify the accessories in any meaningful way. They just don't CARE anymore. It is becoming so obvious...the pre recorded meetings, the discontinuation of cool products, the lack of innovation, focusing on an AR headset nobody asked for. I know profit is still high under Tim Cook but they really need someone who has vision …not just trying to cement their legacy with a grab.