Apple goes 'full retard ' and puts a charge port on the bottom of the magic mouse 2

[Thorium19]

This, the mac pro, some of the iPhone changes, and macbook non pro, and other various things has convinced me that apple is doomed. I have NO respect for their product design anymore. If they ruin the MBP I will be very mad

I disagree with the mac pro, I think that's pretty good, but everything else is pretty retarded. This is just plain stupid, all they needed to do was have the front not slope as much and stick the charging port there, then it can actually be used as a normal mouse. Think I'll go for the mx master instead apple, at least that's a successful design piece.

[Dabombinable]

Bottom side, top side.....side.....other side...top would be slightly less retarded but still retarded 

Kind of like how Gigabyte could have used the space on top of the GTX 970 for the other 2GB of vRAM that was stuck to the back (and I've checked myself, there is plenty of room for the chips and tracks)

As for the mouse itself. Sure my Logitech mouse charged from the bottom, however it sat on a dock when not in use, and it went for around 6 months on 1 charge (internal L-ion battery, newer mice use 2x AA and last around a year or even longer, and they use lasers). Oh and Apple fucked the design up.

[sof006]

They cant really out it anywhere else...

The side..

[LAwLz]

i dont get why people are so bent out of shape.....2 mins for 9 hours.....go take a piss for 2 mins. of all the things to bitch about this is rather trivial

Yeah I know right? My new Lamborghini has this cool feature where once a month instead of the car getting unlocked when I press the key, it completely shuts down and locks itself down for 2 minutes before I can start. I don't get why people make a big deal out of this because it gives me the chance to look at the flowers around the parking lot.

Totally not a bad thing and people are blowing it out of proportion.

/sarcasm

Come on. It's stupid as hell and they could just have put it on the front like any sensible manufacturer does. There really is no excuse for this.

[ClownFace1511]

The side..

If they put it on the side it will interfere with your hand placement.

[LAwLz]

They cant really out it anywhere else...

If they put it on the side it will interfere with your hand placement.

How about at the front? Before you say "there is no room there" please remember that it was Apple that designed it. The only reason it doesn't have room there is because Apple didn't give it enough room at the front, but they could easily have fixed that.

And trust me, interfering with your hand placement is infinitely better than making it completely useless like putting it on the bottom does.

[vXhanz]

Come on. It's stupid as hell and they could just have put it on the front like any sensible manufacturer does. There really is no excuse for this.

 

I agree. I looked at that design and why would I place my charger on the bottom? I can think of how long this would last in my house with kids putting stuff on top of it, and that charger getting broken quickly. 

[Robin88]

The worst mouse in history now with the worst placed charging port in history, for only £60!

It is literally the worst mouse I have ever used, it tracks so slowly as to be totally unusable, even if you jack up the tracking speed to max, If you replace the battery on the MM1 you need to pair the mouse to the mac again, it lasted 3 months with less than 2 hours of use per day, it is god awful to hold in your hand, it doesn't fit any humans hand I know of, and distinguishing left click from right click is impossible, the scrolling is so unreliable that it might as well not be there and now there's this, putting the charging port on the bottom.

As an engineer, this makes me cringe so hard, the lightning connector is absolutely tiny, there is no reason whatsoever that they couldn't have made it go on the front, sure the thickness would have to be increased but so what? 2-4mm of extra thickness would not be noticeable to most people.

Even if it only takes 2 minutes to charge, why should anyone stop working just to charge their mouse? We would demolish Razer or Logitech if they made this design atrocity, so why should Apple get a free pass?

I really do not understand Apple, their whole design philosophy for OS X is that almost no one should ever need to go into the command line to perform any task, and everything should be mouse driven, so why is it that even though it's their most fundamental concept, they cannot make even a half decent mouse? A mouse should be function and form, it's form should fit the hand perfectly, and it's function should be flawless and the Magic Mouse is neither and I do not understand why.

[TheMcSame]

It blows my mind people are defending this.

I dont care if its 2 minutes for 9 hours. if I want to use my computer now, I wanna use it now, not in 2 minutes time.

^^^^

 

1 minute or 10 minutes, I shouldn't have to stop doing whatever I'm doing just because Apple hired some of the dumbest people on the planet.  

 

If they put it on the side it will interfere with your hand placement.

Short period of interfering with your hand placement > Not being able to use it at all.

 

It should've been designed to allow the port to be placed in a proper position in the first place tbh... There's quite literally no defence for this poor design...

[EndlessOyster]

After looking at a little tech news I normally go on reddit.

[ShadowCaptain]

its 2 minutes a year basically, im sure you can stand to put your mouse on its side for 2 minutes a year instead of having to buy tons of AA batteries

 

i dont get why people are so bent out of shape.....2 mins for 9 hours.....go take a piss for 2 mins.  of all the things to bitch about this is rather trivial

 

 

Dude its apple people love bitching and complaining no matter how trivial the issue is

 

honestly it makes me sick

[Warcony]

its 2 minutes a year basically, im sure you can stand to put your mouse on its side for 2 minutes a year instead of having to buy tons of AA batteries

Dude its apple people love bitching and complaining no matter how trivial the issue is

honestly it makes me sick

I agree, it's not a huge deal, but it's definitely not up to apple design standards. This is Samsung at Best

[LAwLz]

its 2 minutes a year basically, im sure you can stand to put your mouse on its side for 2 minutes a year instead of having to buy tons of AA batteries

 

 

Dude its apple people love bitching and complaining no matter how trivial the issue is

 

honestly it makes me sick

It's not "this or use AA batteries". Apple could have just put the charging port at the front like any sane designer would do.

And "it's just 2 minutes" is a really poor and stupid excuse for a problem that shouldn't exist at all.

[ShadowCaptain]

It's not "this or use AA batteries". Apple could have just put the charging port at the front like any sane designer would do.

And "it's just 2 minutes" is a really poor and stupid excuse for a problem that shouldn't exist at all.

 

I agree and disagree, they didnt want to change the design of the top piece, and a charging port is ugly, but they could have put it on the side so you can use it while its charging and it would not really ruin the aesthetics

 

but personally I have no issue plugging it in for 10 minutes, and using it for a month or whatever

 

 

Its quite un-elegant for Apple but I guess they did not want to change the design or ruin the aesthetics

 

smacks of lazy design, but its not TOO offensive

[Pony080905]

Why not have a mouse with a wireless charging thing on the bottom and a mouse pad that can charge it

[PlayStation 2]

I was gonna call "clickbait" but yeah, this is stupid as hell

[Dabombinable]

It's not "this or use AA batteries". Apple could have just put the charging port at the front like any sane designer would do.

And "it's just 2 minutes" is a really poor and stupid excuse for a problem that shouldn't exist at all.

It wouldn't be as big a deal if the mouse had a battery life that was rated in days instead of hours. Then when your finished you'd simply sit it on its dock and leave it over night.

[jaggysnake57]

seriously, a study reveals that 87% of android devices are insecure and it gets 2 pages apple put the charging port on the bottom of a mouse and the fourm looses its mind.......fan boy much

[AlTech]

This, the mac pro, some of the iPhone changes, and macbook non pro, and other various things has convinced me that apple is doomed. I have NO respect for their product design anymore. If they ruin the MBP I will be very mad

They did. they currently have no laptop running skylake.

 

Macbookairs are use Broadwell

13 inch Mac Book Pro Non Retina (why u exist?) Ivy bridge

13 inch Retina Pro using broadwell

15 inch Retina pro using Haswell Refresh

Macbook 2015 using broadwell

[AlTech]

Why not have a mouse with a wireless charging thing on the bottom and a mouse pad that can charge it

EXACTLY! This is why people need to get together at one point and collaborate! People with brains and logic talk to people with money and then we have a good product!

[Dabombinable]

seriously, a study reveals that 87% of android devices are insecure and it gets 2 pages apple put the charging port on the bottom of a mouse and the fourm looses its mind.......fan boy much

^misses the point. And those using the term 'fanboy' willy nilly 99% of the time are effectively 'the pot calling the kettle black". People acknowledged that Android is secure and even discussed why it is insecure.

[aneil1998]

Either way you take it, It will still sell. No matter if it is retarded or not. Apple has the fanboys(and girls) to do whatever the fuck they want

[Dabombinable]

Either way you take it, It will still sell. No matter if it is retarded or not. Apple has the fanboys(and girls) to do whatever the fuck they want

#Applecult, and there are a lot of fans that support that point of view-just look at the lines for example and how long people wait in them to get the next iPhone churned out by Apple.

[Eroda]

where is the docking station your mouse is obviously supposed to sit on? that is an additional $129 dollars, then next gen has wireless charging with the charger costing an additional $189

[Biased Opinion]

I dont see why anyone would bother with the magic mouse going forward. I have one and I paid for it and even in osx the gestures are not that big a deal and i would rather just use my death adder. On my macbook pro apple is still king of trackpads and that is more than enough.