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Because pedantry is king at hn. Design was not the most important aspect of the magic mouse, _aesthetics_ was. A key difference in this conversation. Aesthetic
by cco 4y ago
Because pedantry is king at hn. Design was not the most important aspect of the magic mouse, _aesthetics_ was. A key difference in this conversation.
Aesthetically the mouse is great, very beautiful, especially for the time it came out.
The design of the mouse is amazing in several ways, but very lacking in others, specifically ergonomics and charging. In fact, had they made the mouse larger, in all dimensions, they could have solved two birds with one stone. The mouse is too small to comfortable use for most people, making it larger would fit the human hand better and decrease the amount of contortion your hand has to do to use it. And with this extra height they could have put a charging port on the front! Win win on the design side of things!
There are several products you can buy that help with this, I have both wings and a palm bump added to my magic mouse that makes it much more comfortable. I tried to take one apart once to explore making a new case for it that addresses some of these concerns, but I ended up breaking it.
I think that final bit really is the crux, the scrolling and gesture support is so good I'm sufficiently motivated to try and solve the problems with the mouse. A beautifully flawed product.
- cromka 4y ago> Design was not the most important aspect of the magic mouse, _aesthetics_ was. A key difference in this conversation. On point. People too often confuse aesthetics with design.
- rob74 4y agoThanks for pointing that out! I'm not a native speaker, and around here (Germany) the loan word "design" refers only to designing the aesthetic side of things. Again what learned (https://www.nicolabartlett.de/again-what-learned/ https://www.nicolabartlett.de/again-what-learned/)...
- cromka 4y agoAnd thanks for the article. Funny it ends the very recent, diplomatically infamous "liver sausage" :)
- 8ytecoder 4y agoThat’s astute. Also the exact reasons I use the magic trackpad instead of the magic mouse.
- bobkazamakis 4y ago> Because pedantry is king at hn. Design was not the most important aspect of the magic mouse, _aesthetics_ was. A key difference in this conversation. Be as pedantic as you want, but aesthetics is an aspect of design, not exclusive to it.
- bigmealbigmeal 4y agoThe comment doesn't assert that aesthetics is separate from design. If I say "the world was not the most important aspect of the policy, _USA_ was", then that does not imply that USA is not part of the world.