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Or get a normal mouse you can use while charging for 15 mins and then have a month of battery. Or charge for 2hrs while using and have six months of battery.
Or buy two of these mice, so you always have a charged one waiting. (This comment was sponsored by Apple)
Had me in the first half
Or get a wired mouse and it works forever
Or get a wireless mouse that charges through the mousepad and it works forever while not having wires connect to your mouse.
Or charge the mouse pad with a tesla coil to charge your wireless mouse so your mouse pad stays charged forever.
This is twenty twenty, everything is air gapped or you’re not relevant. Don’t look in my room.
Dragging the mouse cord across the desk is annoying though, and mouse bungees don't fix the problem entirely
What kind of heavy cable does your mouse use that you even notice it is attached?
If you use low mouse sensitivity it's very annoying
At my desk, I agree. From my sofa, not so much
Yeah same, $4 from kmart
A $4 mouse sucks tho.
People would leave them plugged in damaging the port.
It’s a design to prevent stupid people damaging their products than having to deal with warranty claims that they can’t just tell you “you’re a fucking moron, unplug it to use it and it won’t get damaged”.
Or you could have a port that's not garbage like every wired mouse with a removable cable...
Any port would be damaged by constantly moving something while connected…… it’s why you hardwire them if you don’t want them being damaged.
And yet, the wired mouse I've been using for 4+ years with a removable micro usb cable; is perfectly fine. No damage to the port which still holds the cable perfectly.
(I'd post the mouse model but it's not in font of me rn to check)
Someone doesn’t know what failure rates are….
If you haven’t experienced it, no one else possibly could….
Fucking lol.
Here we go:
ROG P501 Gladius Mouse.
Micro usb, recessed ~3/8" into the device with keyways and a sliding lock moulded into the cable+socket to prevent the cable being accidentally removed or any force being applied to the actual usb within
It also leaves enough space to use most micro usb cables if you manage to lose/break the two high-quality sleeved cables it comes with.(7 of the 8 I have on hand fit).
Unless you're using it as a mace, you'll be pretty hard pressed to wear this out with regular use. You'll wear out the buttons/switches first.
Apple can do far better than what they offer. They just don't bother.
Do you work for the apple social media team or something?
Not true at all, lots of wireless mice with durable optional cables.
I have a Logitech MX Master with the charging port in the front. It looks like this. I can plug it in and use it just like a wired mouse while it charges. It's great.
Stop making excuses for Apple. They're a megacorp, they don't care about you. They overcharge users for gimmicks and compatibility lock-in every chance they get.
If that were the case, every other computer peripheral manufacturer would use a similar design or face similar warranty claim issues. Which they don't. So nah, that ain't it, chief.
Other manufacturers don’t care as much about quality so they just deal with the claims.
It’s like comparing a bently to a Honda, no one cares if a Honda gets a warranty claim, but to Bentley, it’s huge.
They don't, though. I don't think I've ever had a USB port wear out from use on any peripheral with a removable cable, so if Apple is facing those kinds of issues, it's not because of stupid users, it's because Apple cheaped out on the build quality of the USB port.
As for Bentley versus Honda reliability, Honda's warranty claim rate is apparently about 2%. I can't find actual warranty claim statistics for Bentley specifically, only for VW as a whole, but according to this, 93% of Bentley owners have to take their car in for unscheduled repairs every year. Which is pretty insane. So yeah. Luxury brands are expensive because their primary purpose is to show off wealth, not because they're any better than mass-produced consumer stuff. Often quite the opposite. Who knew.
Here’s the thing about that though. The one thing the Magic Mouse does really well, is smooth scrolling. Apple makes it so no other mouse can do that since they control the software. So despite all the other issues it has, if you want their buttery smooth scrolling you have to use the Magic Mouse. And Apple shills will refuse to go without it, thus Apple makes bank off their otherwise shitty mouse.
The only solution to this is a sea change where people stop buying apple products purely out of brand loyalty, which will probably never happen because they do make enough genuinely good products to keep people from losing faith, like the M1/2/3 laptops.
Actually, there is software for OSX to do that, works quite well.
https://mos.caldis.me/