Now we have to deal with battery degradation. AAs can be replaced; Sealed-in Lithium Ion batteries degrade over time.
A very Apple move, to change to hardware with more planned obsolescence.
A very Apple move, to change to hardware with more planned obsolescence.
It's not apple that's implementing planned obsolescence. It's the entire industry, and it's defacto obsolescence. Or would you still expect to be using your microsoft ball mouse from 1999 today?
The design goals of these two devices are different. Of course, it's perfectly fine for different devices to have different design goals. In fact, they should!
So not the entire industry.
As a side note I have a working Microsoft optical mouse from 1999 that was used for 7 years and is still fine.
It works flawlessly, and has all the features I want and nothing more. Mouse wheel with click and detents, back/forward buttons and left/right buttons.
I have a fancier mouse at home with a similar feature set and even though it cost 4x as much, sometimes my work mouse feels better.
When it runs low, you either plug the mouse in to charge from USB (also switches data over to the slightly more reliable wired connection), or you swap in a fresh battery and toss the dead one in a separate charger.
If your AA battery has too much permanent wear, get a new one. No warranty voiding necessary.