> but they added the charging port at the bottom of the mouse (facepalm)

Reminds me of the 1968 VW Camper Bus. (My dad had one.) You can always tell the 68's because the gas filler was located on the right rear quarter panel. When you were filling up, and opened the sliding door, it would shear off the gas pump.

In '69 they moved it to the other side.

Then, when minivans started having sliding doors on both sides, the problem returned. Pretty sure our minivan won't let us open the driver-side door if the gas door is open.

> Pretty sure our minivan won't let us open the driver-side door if the gas door is open.

My dad's low tech solution was to yell at me to not open the door when he was pumping gas.

Funnily enough that was mine's as well. Didn't stop us from hitting the pump once or twice anyways, though luckily we didn't break anything…

> they added the charging port at the bottom of the mouse (facepalm).

I thought this was incredibly stupid until I actually used one. The battery lasts so long and charges so fast that it's not a problem, to the point that I wouldn't pay so much as a dollar to "fix" it by moving the port to the edge.

I dislike the inconsistency where the corresponding keyboard is a USB keyboard with a cable connected, but the mouse isn't (and physically couldn't be).

The big difference is you don’t drag your keyboard around the table putting a strain on the connector.

Mice seem to have handled that fine for decades?

I reckon it's not so common but... what if you are in the middle of something and your battery dies?

If you 1) don't plug it in at all for several weeks, including 2) ignoring low battery warnings for multiple days near the end, then you're looking at like 15min of making coffee and taking a walk around the building to let it charge enough to finish out the day, if, say, you sat down at your desk in the morning and it was already dead. Or 15min of using your trackpad if you're using it with a Macbook. But it's the kind of thing you'd have to be almost trying to do to have it happen even once a year. The crazy-good battery life and very fast charging are what make it such a non-issue.

If it had an edge plug I'd probably have started off using it plugged in all the time, though, just because I'm so used to battery powered peripherals being so shitty that not plugging them in when there's an opportunity is a bad move. Kinda like how it took a period of adjustment when I started using Macbooks to get used to my laptop being usable long enough on battery power that I didn't need to constantly be looking for power outlets, or carting my power supply everywhere I went.

I don't know if it would be a once-a-year event. That happens more frequently to me with the the Magic Keyboard 2. Thankfully I can connect it and keep working.

No integrated keyboard in my iMac... :)

Not just the mice themselves. For a long time, Macs had an insane mouse pointer acceleration curve. It required long movements in order to move the pointer anywhere beyond the immediate area, and it affected both the trackpad and wired mice.

Back when I switched from Windows to Mac in 2006, I found this perhaps the most disruptive aspect; everything else was pretty standard GUI stuff, but the mouse behaviour was a nightmare. Windows had a different acceleration curve that felt super snappy (at the cost of a loss of precision), whereas on the Mac it was sluggish; it was a chore to get the mouse pointer to move anywhere.

For years I ran various apps that would fix the acceleration, including a tool from SteelSeries. I wasn't alone in being frustrated — forums were full of discussions about this. I'm not sure what happened or when, but I haven't needed that app in a long time. Apple must have changed the acceleration curve — I don't see any other explanation. Perhaps it came with the attempts at unifying the trackpad with iOS gestures, which require a 1:1 correspondence of your movement with what happens on the screen.

I switched to Mac in 2007 and that drove me crazy too. For years I used some app[1] that imitated the Windows acc. curves but even with that it never felt as good as Windows.

Never had that issue with the trackpad though, only with mice.

Not sure when Apple change those, or if I just got used to the Mac curves over the years.

[1] http://triq.net/mac/mouse-acceleration

You can change the acceleration in the preferences. I don't remember if it was there in 2006, but I assume so.

You've always been able to change the speed, but not the acceleration.

You can?

AFAIK you can change the cursor speed (called "tracking speed") but not the acceleration curve.

It was.

It's true. They really have unusable mice. It's strange to have to resort to using Microsoft and Amazon basic mice to get anything done.