[scyzoryk_xyz]

Fair point.

I do think that they have a team in place to make these decisions and the experience you’re describing was thoroughly tested and designed already.

One thing they’re frequently berated for is an emphasis on visual aesthetics. But I think that’s a misunderstanding - they design for function, and the aesthetic pleasure comes from that function.

I suspect they will find a way to make these match the visual look that these leaks suggest, without abandoning what you’re talking about. Probably with some tapered edge shape or something like that.

[keepingscore]

Was this team on holiday when they designed the mouse to have it's charging port on the bottom?

[bnj]

I have to wonder if that design came about because Apple didn’t want people to leave the mouse plugged in all the time. It’s the kind of reasoned institutional blunder that I feel like I encounter in my work life fairly often out of momentum and groupthink.

[kgermino]

I suspect the conversation was closer to “make it rechargeable, but don’t change anything else.”

You obviously can make an Apple style mouse that plugged in sensibly, but that would require changing the case and internal layout. The way they did it the new battery and charge port fit in the space left by the old AA’s.

[fastball]

They definitely have not been designing for function over form, at least while Jony Ive was there without Jobs to curtail his worst impulses.