I can imagine customers using the wireless mouse with the cable attached is something that would grind Steve's gears as well. Preventing the situation with a flipped tortoise design is a Steve thing to do.
You say this as if it's absolutely typical of Steve Jobs. I read it and think exactly the opposite. Jobs was certainly a stickler for aesthetics, but also for usability. I've read numerous accounts of him lashing out when he found a workflow noticeably frustrating.
What decisions made during Jobs's tenure would you consider comparable to the Magic Mouse's charging port?
* The mouse supports fast charging - 2mins on the charger gives you all day use.
* A full charge will give you more than 2mo of battery life - nearly 3.
* In 24 months, you will have to put it on the charger between 6 and 8 times TOTAL.
With that context, the design makes perfect sense for a wireless mouse.
I tried a wireless keyboard once and every 10 minutes it would hang and repeat the last key I pressed for 10 seconds. How much better is the situation today?
I started using Apple wireless peripherals over a decade ago and haven’t experienced anything like what you describe once. I remember PC peripherals doing that kind of thing in the 90s though, back before everything switched to Bluetooth and everything used proprietary IR dongles etc.
Their keyboards got progressively worse as well.
Another great example was the iBooks that soaked up skin oils and became gross and disgusting.
During Jobs's tenure? The 2010-era Apple Bluetooth Keyboard is actually my favorite keyboard to type on. I'm currently using one I tracked down on eBay after my original finally broke.
> Another great example was the iBooks that soaked up skin oils and became gross and disgusting.
That's a long term problem. It's not the same type of general workflow issue that Jobs was really good at identifying.
Ugh. I absolutely hated that keyboard. Felt like tapping on a slab of granite all day long.