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Removable Key That Works as a Mouse Could Come to Future MacBook
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For some reason, every single guy over 50 I've ever seen with a PC laptop in a coffee shop carries around a full sized mouse with it and won't use the laptop without it no matter how inconvenient. They also love the big roller bag to carry everything. With Mac laptops, I hardly ever see anyone not using the trackpad unless it's at a docked desktop setup.
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No worries there, we would lose it quick enough... It probably would not support Find My anyways...
This goes on the premise that the computer is facing where FaceID works. My work MBP operates in clamshell 99+% of the time and doesn’t face me.
My Mac Mini doesnt have line of sight either.
Might work for some use cases, when the user is directly facing the camera. Easier on phones and tablets than laptops and desktop computers.
I suppose Apple could embed a camera in a keyboard for FaceID but Logitech keyboards have a much better typing feel.
IBM now Lenovo has had the clit mouse, pencil eraser mouse, or other things it's been called for years. Better than requiring to remove a key.
"If I had given people what they asked for, I would have built a faster horse." - Henry Ford
Always hated this quote...and if you think about it, the car was a faster horse...people wanted a faster way to move, and that's what was made.
I ask this when I see these comments: Where should it be? Any other location would "spoil the lines".
That key looks like it is giving the Pikachu face that you removed its top
I just wonder what goes in the little fingery hole when the “mouse” comes out. It would be like a little fidget pad.
Also a square mouse? They looked at the current Magic Mouse and said “how can we make this hurt peoples’ hand even more?”
Also a square mouse? They looked at the current Magic Mouse and said “how can we make this hurt peoples’ hand even more?”
The same place every other mouse has always put it. At the top. So it can be used as a wired mouse while charging.
I know it’s not elegant and Jony Ive would throw the whole thing in the dumpster if he saw it, but some designs just can’t be improved upon because that’s just how it works.
Logitech mice have charging ports at the top and it doesn't spoil the lines. Does the cable coming out of the old Mighty Mouse spoil the lines? It's just a matter of taking it into account when designing the product.
I am not in any way defending the design. But putting it anywheere else would change it. I was thinking of some sort of pop up door to expose the connector. Or inductive charging. It seems to me that ports on the top would collect dust.
You can use any keyboard with your Mac. I use different keyboards all the time.
EDIT: Nevermind I think you're referring to being able to bring your touchID with you type of thing.
I think inductive is the way they’ll take it. They won’t release a USB-C mouse, they’ll release a completely wireless one. Sounds much more like an Apple thing to do. MagSafe Mouse. Mighty Mouse now with MagSafe. Something like that.
They’ll even call it a USB-C mouse because the other end is USB-C. Port problem solved, EU compliance solved, done and dusted.
I’m not yet in that age bracket, but having grown up with mice, I could never get used to trackpads, although I initially loved the idea. They just don’t have the same level of precision, and the tapping is somehow always awkward.