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@nikitonsky Yeah, Apple apparently finally updated their Magic Mouse to use USB-C, but still kept the plug on the bottom of the mouse for recharging?

They've got some braindead hardware designers.

29 October at 18:15 | Wall-to-wall | Open on rap.social
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Jacob

@teajaygrey would you put the port on the top?

30 October at 13:55 | Open on mastodon.social
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@jazaval I'd probably put the USB-C port in the "front" so it would look and act like a wired mouse when charging?

(image of another mouse with a cable protruding out of what I would consider the "front" for illustrative purposes)
30 October at 16:43 | Open on rap.social
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@jazaval Apple just always has to be unnecessarily "different" apparently (I am harping on how their ads seemed to admonish the adverbial form in English, so instead of "Think Differently" their ads read "Think Different").

I knew Bill English (the inventor of the mouse) personally. He more or less pioneered the field of ergonomics.

As @hyc reminded someone else on the FediVerse recently, the mouse was not the be all end all of pointing devices here:
mastodon.social/@hyc/113386894

Yet, for the time (the 1960s) the mouse was more or less an improvement on the light pen. People's arms would often drain of blood/go numb using light pens.

What is maybe not discussed much is, Bill English/SRI didn't just try the mouse. They experimented with a variety of pointing devices. One was even knee based (the idea being you could point using your knee/legs and free up both hands for typing and chording [they had a chorded keyset in addition to QWERTY keyboards which was favored for many NLS [oNLine System] applications).

They experimented with mice with 5 buttons, mice with no buttons. Via usability studies they eventually settled on a mouse with three buttons as being the most pragmatic with a good balance of ease of use and offering some more sophisticated functionality without being overwhelming to users.

Steve Jobs?

He threw out ALL of that prior research and insisted on one button mice with the Macintosh.

More likely: he was unaware of that research and was just trying to make the thing as simple as possible because of his reality distortion field?

@jazaval Apple just always has to be unnecessarily "different" apparently (I am harping on how their ads seemed to admonish the adverbial form in English, so instead of "Think Differently" their ads read "Think Different").

I knew Bill English (the inventor of the mouse) personally. He more or less pioneered the field of ergonomics.

30 October at 16:52 | Open on rap.social
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