• buckykat [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
        34·
        2 months ago

        The closest I can get to an explanation is that someone at Apple lives in perpetual A E S T H E T I C terror of someone somewhere leaving their mouse plugged in all the time

    • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      13·
      2 months ago

      The Cult of Steve Jobs only intensified after his death, and he made bad design decisions too but his (described by his own employees) “Reality Distortion Field” demanded it with no corrections.

    • thetaT [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      12·
      2 months ago

      honestly it’s not THAT bad a decision. you need to plug the mouse in for like only a minute to get a month of battery life. you aren’t going to be in a situation where you need to use the mouse when it’s charging.

      still, screw apple though

      • MamaVomit [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        15·
        2 months ago

        When the battery dies it just becomes e-waste — if you could charge and use it at the same time, then it could at least still be useful as a wired mouse for many more years.

        • Feinsteins_Ghost [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
          6·
          2 months ago

          If it has pass thru charging, yes. Otherwise, it’s just ewaste.

          Unless the mouse body is sealed like ultrasound welds, it’s openable and the battery is a replaceable commodity. Thirty seconds on temu, then 15 min w a soldering iron and mouse is back in business.

          Unless they serialized the mouse. Then you’re looking at pulling the battery, pulling whatever chip identifies it, and sweating it on to the new one. I want to say there’s no way they’d serialize a mouse battery but it is apple after all so who even knows.