I can’t assist however smile because the web erupts with anger. The rationale this time? Apple has switched its Mac equipment from Lightning to USB-C… and declined to take this chance to relocate the charging port on the Magic Mouse.
I wish to think about that Tim Cook dinner and the gang have been sitting in a gathering and somebody mentioned, “Can’t we simply troll everybody and hold the charging port in precisely the identical place?” Whereupon Cook dinner nodded his head in settlement and mentioned in his delicate Alabama tones, “I believe they’re going to like it.”
Don’t get me mistaken, the Magic Mouse’s charging port is maybe the silliest tech product choice since Philips tried to launch AmBX, a system that turned your desk right into a maelstrom of cords, followers, audio system, and lights. However Apple selected to not right this error, and I can’t assist however discover this slightly charming. The corporate that strives for perfection and high quality merely shrugs on the world’s worst-placed charging port and tells us to recover from it.
Unsurprisingly, this has not proved well-liked, and the web is filled with tech writers calling Apple’s choice into query. Tom Warren from The Verge wails “Whyyyyyy” on Twitter (now X). Marques Brownlee introduced the transfer utilizing the phrases “I’ve unhealthy information.“
So what’s the pondering? Is it actually an try to troll us? My guess is that Apple considers charging ports to be a crucial evil and one thing that must be as invisible as attainable. The very fact is {that a} absolutely charged Magic Mouse lasts a few month, and simply 10 minutes of charging will provide you with days of use. Is it so troublesome to cost the mouse when it’s not in use?
For that matter, if Apple redesigned the Magic Mouse and put the charging port in plain sight, there’s a good probability that the web would now be stuffed with loud complaints that “They ruined the look!” How does that saying go once more? Damned should you do, damned should you don’t.
And there you might have Apple’s greatest downside. It doesn’t matter what the corporate does, somebody will at all times complain. {That a} product doesn’t characteristic absolutely the newest options, or that the position of the charging port disturbs their aesthetic sense and now requires years of remedy to work by the trauma.
What number of firms have created the right product that everybody likes? I can’t consider a single one. We will’t agree on something. If Alexander Fleming found penicillin within the Web period, somebody could be pounding away on their keyboard proper now, complaining concerning the style.
However it’s time for me to wind up this column. I can’t work anymore, you see. I’ve to cost my Magic Mouse.