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This is a good write up, but as I was reading it I started to realize the brilliant marketing behind it, and potentially why I buy some Apple products. I wouldn't buy the mouse because Apple made it sound perfect. I would buy the mouse because this article makes me see how much effort Apple puts into making their products the best they can be. Whether or not they are actually the best products is almost irrelevant after eliciting that emotion.

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Yeah, half way reading it I started wondering if it is genuine article or really skilfully written ad. Either way it is not bad reading I just tend to be careful when emotions try to influence tech decisions -- in this case what would I buy next decision.

The entire article is a marketing piece. The mouse is just a diversion.

For what it's worth, on my old Apple mouse, the battery lid frequently falls off. It's so annoying that I don't use it any more. This is an issue that has apparently been fixed as well.

> This is an issue that has apparently been fixed as well.

Well, they fixed it by just not including a removable battery (and it's lid).

Exactly.

And once you've convinced yourself the mouse is better - how can it be worse ? i.e. placebo.

IME the (alkaline) apple bluetooth mouse really is awful, and I really wanted to like the apple mouse (I really want to like anything I over-pay that much for). I ended up buying a $20 logitech bluetooth mouse because the apple mouse disconnected sporadically from my macbook when the batteries got below ~20%, and also refused to play well with non-mac machines.

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