it’s always the same comments rehashing the same old complaint when the real reason they designed it that way was to make you, the reader, mad
that’s right they hate you specifically
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True, that's why I think Steve Jobs deserved to die of ligma
Who the hell is Steve Jobs?
My balls
Wait
Ha gottem
Tim Apple's father
Some kind of mind goblin.
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You charge it like that for 15 minutes, and then you get a month of battery life. Odd design choice tho
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
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This must be a joke. That can't actually be how they designed it right?
They really didn't want you using it as a wired mouse. Because aesthetics.
So that when other people see that you're using the mouse wirelessly, because apple cares about how others perceive your product that you bought, not you.
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It's 100% true
Yeah it's real. My parents have one.
The gen 1 mouse had removable batteries connected to a door on the bottom.
The gen 2 mouse went with a rechargable battery, but they didn't want to retool the factories making the top shell, so they couldn't put the charging port anywhere other than the bottom part they were redesigning.
Just charge the mouse overnight when you're not using it. Also the charge cable disables the sensor so you can't fix this "design feature" by modifying the mouse. Why not buy the desktop trackpad if you really need an input device when your mouse is charging?
Why should I buy two devices to do the same job, where a single device from any other sane manufacturer would function 100% of the time? Especially after paying a premium for the branded device?
Pay more to get problems others don't have, then pay even more on top to solve those problems...
You don't become a trillion dollar company by selling people things they need. The strategy is to induce demand.
Apple designs products so that when broken it requires a repair that costs 50-75% the cost of the device if repaired by Apple. If you're paying that much to fix it you might as well just buy a new one.
The apple vision pro is glued together, the outer shell and internal lenses have highly scratchable plastic on the outside. Want to fix it, over a thousand. They can't just remove some screws replace the broken part. This is a deliberate design decision.
It's not about making good products, it's about money. If you decide buy a trackpad for when your mouse is charging, apple make bank.
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Charge the mouse over night 😂
The magic mouse is just shit with crappy ergonomics and user-hostile design like most of their hardware. It's just pretty to look at.
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Wow, you're super early to the party.
They must have thought that people would buy two to have one while the other charged
Why is this in /funny??
Because it's hilariously bad design.
Lemmy only knows how to be upset, so even "jokes" need to be upsetting
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Have been using that mouse for almost a decade and this literally never has been an issue.
If you really somehow manage to drain the battery to zero you can just plug it in for 5 minutes and it will work for the rest of the day. Fully charged it lasts for months.
Complaining about the design it is a purley manufactured issue by people that never used one.
So because of a dumb design decision that they could have easily avoided if they designed a good product, you lose 5 minutes of your time waiting on your peripheral to charge.
You could just have bought a decent mouse and never had that issue, with no drawbacks in any other way, shape or form.
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Even if we put the charging issue aside for a minute (it's still stupid) the mouse flipped upside down (and the mere fact that you are constantly reminded of it) looks objectively much worse than if there were a charging port visible on the upper side.
Still better than the Mighty Mouse.
And while we’re at it, the razer deathadder v2 x hyperspeed is hot garbage and disconnects so often in 2.4g mode, I just went back to a wired mouse.
All Razer products are garbage. They're a marketing company that makes computer hardware, just like Apple.
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I made the mistake of buying a Razer Kiyo Pro webcam. Never again will I buy anything from Razer. Every time it's connected, it puts an installer on my hard drive unprompted and then tries to install its crapware. I've never seen a piece of hardware that puts an exe on your hard drive without user consent.
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I think it's probably totally usable once it finishes charging and you unplug the cord.
Meh. Would make a lot more sense to have the cord plugged in a way that a user can use it while charging
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This has ruined my week - the mere thought that people actually brought this drives me insane.
I'm assuming it can hold a charge long enough that you can just charge it while you're sleeping, and this won't interrupt your work. On the other hand, if they had placed the socket in the front, you could work while you charge.
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