That’s not the point. It looks completely ridiculous coming from a world-renowned designer and company (or anyone, really). It might be excusable if it were a case of “form over function“, but it’s not even that. It’s Apple going to great lengths to avoid putting the charging port in the most obvious place possible, lest someone try to use it as a wired mouse.

That and sticking the Apple Pencil into the iPad’s Lightning port are two of the most baffling design decisions to come out of Apple in recent memory. Well, I take that back, I completely understand why they did the Apple Pencil that way. It’s because doing it the right way would require redesigning the iPad, so ehhh, just stick it in the Lightning port. Another brilliant design by Ive and company!