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The fact that people would use it wired in 100% of the time is pretty much the reason of the bottom charge port. Apple doesn't want their products to look cluttered with unnessesary cables
If they want to use it wired all the time then that's their choice, since then wireless must not be a strong selling point for them.
If any other mouse manufacturer came out with that bottom charge approach it'd be considered a dumb design.
Not to mention other wireless mouses have had docks or charging pads for years, so still a dumb design and all I hear are excuses for it.
I agree 100% - it's a stupid design. Just want to give a reason why apple is shoving it down the throats of their deciples
Yeah, but even the charging process seems so inelegant and crude visually compared to like the magnetic apple pencil charging. It's surprising it's an Apple design, since magnetic charging or some dock or mouse pad to have an excuse to up charge the product seems more the Apple way. Like if it didn't have the Apple logo I would never have guess it was an Apple designed product, but a knock off.
Logitech has their special mousepad that charges their (specific models) of wireless mice
I'm very surprised apple didn't make one, though I guess then there's a wire and they don't want any wires
I have an idea! Wireless mouse pad! The charging port is on the bottom though...
No, Apple didn’t want to design a charging cable specifically for the mouse. The charging cable is exactly the same as the ones for the trackpad, keyboard, iPad and iPhone. The cable would break to damn fast when used connected to a mouse.
It’s about parts supply management, not about the best mouse cable.
Even in that case there exists solutions, like making a deeper cutout for the port along with some attachment mechanism to lock cable movement, preventing the port from wearing out.
Or, they could have made the battery bigger.
It’s the cable itself. It’s one for everything. And it isn’t famous for being durable.
Do they think their customers are so dumb they'd pay for a wireless mouse and use it exclusively wired?
I prefer to use my mouse wireless, but it sure would be a pain in the ass if I had to just completely stop using my computer when the battery died.
It gets a multi day charge from a few minutes. Plug it in a go pee and it’ll have enough charge for the rest of the week.
It’s only your own fault of you ignore the multi week warnings that the battery is dying or you forget to plug it in to charge after your mini pee charge….
How much of a dickrider to you have to be to not understand that that's still incredibly stupid.
My mouse also gets ~5 days of (heavy) use from about 10 minutes of charging. Warnings or not, the fact that it's even a possibility is just shit design.
If peeing takes about 10 minutes you should see a doctor.
How is explaining how something actually works dickriding…?
And what model of mouse is that? Don’t forget about the weeks of warnings too!!!
You’re just claiming something to try and prove a point, but fact of the matter is, there isn’t another mouse out there lmfao. It’s not shit design, people just want to hate it, simple as that and you’ve proven the point by outright lying lmfao.
Well fuck them. If I want to use a cable I should be able to.