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This Engineer Created The Best Version of the Apple Magic Mouse

gizmodo.com This Engineer Created The Best Version of the Apple Magic Mouse

Maybe this will make the Magic Mouse a little more usable.

An engineer hacked Apple’s infamous Magic Mouse to make it more user-friendly, ergonomic, and overall less annoying. Ivan Kuleshov is the said engineer, and he has also hacked the Apple Mac Mini in the past to be powered over Ethernet.

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So he took a magic mouse amd turned it into a regular mouse?
- Because it cannot be used while charging, so remedied that oversight/built-in ridiculousness.
  
  Definitely the latter. It wasn't an oversight, because I guarantee you plenty of engineers were telling management how stupid that was. They did the same stupid bullshit with the Apple Pencil.
  
  Stupid? Hold my beer while we put the charging port right on the bottom plate, so it doesn’t interrupt those clean beautiful lines while it lays on its side like a bloated dolphin.
  
  I’ve been bitten by this. I’ve gotten a battery warning in the AM at the start of a day and had my mouse die in the early afternoon. It’s annoying that I can’t just charge it while working so I had to dig around for another mouse and use that while it charged. I hate that I have to check the charge on it and then forget after a while because it does last a long time. So it’ll die on me and I’ll get good about checking charge for a few days and then forget for a while and boom it happens again. If Apple sold this config I would definitely replace my current mouse with a better design.
  
  Logitech had the foresight to put a little light on their devices that lets you know when the battery is low. But I guess that would ruin the sleek form factor.
  
  Which is not that useful for a device I don't really look at, and is covered by my hand when in use. I can continue using my trackball while it is charging, though.
  
  It is covered by your hand because it has bad ergonomics.
  Good mouses have plenty of space for lights.
  
  it was never once an issue
  Every Apple thread has at least one of those replies.
  
  It's not an oversight, it's a willful decision from Apple.
  "We decided using our devices while charging ruins the magic of it all being wireless, etc. so we made the unilateral decision to stop you from doing that even if you don't give a fuck (like a normal human) about it being wireless all the time, always. This is the way we already decided you need to use Apple products so that it feels 'futuristic' and all other opinions are objectively wrong."
  Apple is no better than Microsoft, they both love making decisions for you.
- no, it's still a shitty mouse. You can't hold one button down and click the other (imaging trying to aim/shoot a rifle in CoD)
  Last time I touched a magic mouse, it couldn't register which finger was clicking if you just let your fingers rest naturally on the mouse. i.e. you had to lift the opposite finger off the mouse to click left/right. Have they fixed that?
- Pretty much, but considering Apple's proprietary hardware, I'd call that quite the accomplishment.

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