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.
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.
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.
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.
Or buy two of these mice, so you always have a charged one waiting. (This comment was sponsored by Apple)
Or get a wireless mouse that charges through the mousepad and it works forever while not having wires connect to your mouse.
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?
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.
