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So you are saying that putting the port in the wrong place made it charge faster?

> Meaning when they ran out they would charge it for a minute and got like a couple hours of use.

That's a minute longer than you should have to wait to keep using your mouse. I can appreciate that they minimized the impact of the poor design, but that doesn't mean it's not a poor design.

> This resulted in them actually using it as a wireless mouse instead of a wired one.

Does that improve functionality at all? It sounds like the same style-over-substance design that's led Apple to sacrifice important functionality for unnecessary size/weight cuts in the last few years.

I have used the mouse, yes— I understand what you're pitching, but I think that ultimately the user can decide whether they want it to be a wireless mouse or a wired mouse, depending on their needs.

Putting it on the bottom did nothing but remove that optionality for the user, and that can be really frustrating.

Unless the reason it charged so quickly was because it connected to the bottom of the mouse, I don't see the justification.

However the lightning charge cable is not necessarily the right thickness, flexibility, or length to be appropriate for use as a wired mouse.