I Hacked the Magic Mouse
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I Hacked the Magic Mouse
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#2i think i recall reading somewhere that apple designed the mouse in the way they did in order to prevent people just leaving the mouse on charge 24/7 and hence not using its wireless capability while negatively affecting the battery.
i’m not saying i agree with apple’s decision, but i find the perspective interesting.
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#3As a hobby project: cool. But as a solution to a problem, how about not supporting companies that make ridiculously overpriced products with hugely deficient functional designs? Apple consistently makes products that work worse than their competitors', for quadruple the price, but, hey, I guess they "look nice".
...which is subjective, personally I think Apple products look absolutely atrocious, with half of screen real estate of their software attributed to padding, and all their product's surfaces the blandest possible solid colors imaginable. So when a product not only functions worse, is several times the price, but also looks bad, what's left?
Re: I Hacked the Magic Mouse
#4i think i recall reading somewhere that apple designed the mouse in the way they did in order to prevent people just leaving the mouse on charge 24/7 and hence not using its wireless capability while negatively affecting the battery. i’m not saying i agree with apple’s decision, but i find the perspective interesting.
Im not sure about that as both the Magic Trackpad and Magic Keyboard both have the charging ports on their backs.
Re: I Hacked the Magic Mouse
#5As a hobby project: cool. But as a solution to a problem, how about not supporting companies that make ridiculously overpriced products with hugely deficient functional designs? Apple consistently makes products that work worse than their competitors', for quadruple the price, but, hey, I guess they "look nice". ...which is subjective, personally I think Apple products look absolutely atrocious, with half of screen r…
> with half of screen real estate of their software attributed to padding
Padding is incredibly important for readable text content. For example, WCAG recommends that blocks of text be no more than 80 Latin glyphs wide.
https://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/visual-audio-cont...
Re: I Hacked the Magic Mouse
#6i think i recall reading somewhere that apple designed the mouse in the way they did in order to prevent people just leaving the mouse on charge 24/7 and hence not using its wireless capability while negatively affecting the battery. i’m not saying i agree with apple’s decision, but i find the perspective interesting.
It would be quite simple for the firmware to handle such use cases as that with some battery management.
They just want to control exactly how you use their products
Re: I Hacked the Magic Mouse
#7i think i recall reading somewhere that apple designed the mouse in the way they did in order to prevent people just leaving the mouse on charge 24/7 and hence not using its wireless capability while negatively affecting the battery. i’m not saying i agree with apple’s decision, but i find the perspective interesting.
Nah, it was a pure aesthetically oriented decision from John Ive. The ergonomics could be a lot better too.
Re: I Hacked the Magic Mouse
#8i think i recall reading somewhere that apple designed the mouse in the way they did in order to prevent people just leaving the mouse on charge 24/7 and hence not using its wireless capability while negatively affecting the battery. i’m not saying i agree with apple’s decision, but i find the perspective interesting.
A more plausible explanation was that the cable strain of not using a specialty cable was also an issue. Look at where the cable attaches to the mouse on a conventional mouse - it's usually very reinforced internally or extenernally
Re: I Hacked the Magic Mouse
#9i think i recall reading somewhere that apple designed the mouse in the way they did in order to prevent people just leaving the mouse on charge 24/7 and hence not using its wireless capability while negatively affecting the battery. i’m not saying i agree with apple’s decision, but i find the perspective interesting.
Use AA batteries.
Re: I Hacked the Magic Mouse
#10As a hobby project: cool. But as a solution to a problem, how about not supporting companies that make ridiculously overpriced products with hugely deficient functional designs? Apple consistently makes products that work worse than their competitors', for quadruple the price, but, hey, I guess they "look nice". ...which is subjective, personally I think Apple products look absolutely atrocious, with half of screen r…
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