The Magic Mouse's charging port always gets memed on but to be honest that's the least offensive thing about it, since the battery goes for months between charges. The real problem is that it has some of the worst ergonomics of any input device on the market today for absolutely no reason besides aesthetics. If they moved the charging port it would still be a terrible mouse.
Agreed. I would call Apple's Magic Mouse the worst mouse of all time if it didn't have the cool feature of working as both a trackpad and a mouse. Haven't really seen that elsewhere
Even excluding the puck mouse, I'm sure there are worse mice than the Magic Mouse. It's still not a great product though. Technically it might be pretty clever, but the only way that can parse QA is if Apple exclusively hires testers with really small hands.
It doesn't matter that there's a trackpad on the top, because you can't use it. You'll need to curl your fingers to an uncomfortable degree and there's to little traction beneath the mouse to prevent it from slipping when using the trackpad functionality.
My guess is that the Magic Mouse needs to be close to 50% larger, certainly taller.
The Magic Trackpad however... I hope they never stop making those. That is the best input device anyone ever made. It's large, stable, precise and just a joy to use.
The Apple Desktop Bus Mouse II was pretty bad, worse than these. It frequently got dirty and wasn't ergonomic.
The Sun optical mice managed to be both annoying and clever - they didn't get too dirty but the effect was often the same, skipping around when they should have been smooth.
I was a fan of the Logitech TrackMan marble. (I preferred the one with the thumb wheel).
It’s a kind of nice feature, but I’ve been a solid magic trackpad user instead since they first introduced the whole magic keyboard/trackpad/mouse set of accessories.
The author said their aim was to "be nondestructive to this Apple mouse", and would it truly be an Apple mouse if it didn't have at least one questionable design decision?
But, in all seriousness, I'm impressed that they were able to do this non-destructively.
> would it truly be an Apple mouse if it didn't have at least one questionable design decision?
I don’t know if you consider a single button a questionable decision, but the ADB II mouse was as close to perfect as the technology was able to support when it was released.
their classic mice weren't horrible, but from the puck on the original imacs (so like 98ish?) and everything after has been absolutely horrible on ergonomics.
It's super clear that they don't view the traditional mouse as the intended interface to their system and expect you to use the trackpad.