> there is no substitute for the multi-touch gestures and insanely fast scrolling you can do on this mouse
Oh there so is!
Used Magic Mouse for several years then switched to Logitech MX Master 3 because of bluetooth unreliability on the new mac mini and OH GOD WHY DIDN'T I DO THIS YEARS AGO. It's so much better ergonomically it's ridiculous. Like, are designers at Apple barred from using any third party mice? Do they not realise just how much their design sucks and how much better the alternatives are?
I used to think gestures were neat but you know what works better? BUTTONS! It's so much faster and more reliable to go back and forth in documents and web pages using buttons. The right mouse button is there, physically, unmistakably, never accidentally "pressed" when I had the negligence to touch the surface slightly to the right of its imaginary centerline. Nothing is scrolled if I move my finger a tiny bit during a simple click. The battery lasts MONTHS and gets charged in well under an hour. And yes you can use it while it is charging. Scrolling is fine now, smooth and with proper inertia but you have to install their app for it to work properly. The only case where it kind of breaks a little is on some web pages that hijack scroll with javascript and do weird thing with it designed specifically for Apple's mice.
Another reason to do this is support for keyboards with meme gifs and other pictures like kimoji. The way they work is by copying images to clipboard and expecting the user to paste manually. This can be streamlined in apps by checking clipboard contents every once in a while and if it changed to image when the input was in focus assuming the user intended to "type" an image or gif.
Oh there so is!
Used Magic Mouse for several years then switched to Logitech MX Master 3 because of bluetooth unreliability on the new mac mini and OH GOD WHY DIDN'T I DO THIS YEARS AGO. It's so much better ergonomically it's ridiculous. Like, are designers at Apple barred from using any third party mice? Do they not realise just how much their design sucks and how much better the alternatives are?
I used to think gestures were neat but you know what works better? BUTTONS! It's so much faster and more reliable to go back and forth in documents and web pages using buttons. The right mouse button is there, physically, unmistakably, never accidentally "pressed" when I had the negligence to touch the surface slightly to the right of its imaginary centerline. Nothing is scrolled if I move my finger a tiny bit during a simple click. The battery lasts MONTHS and gets charged in well under an hour. And yes you can use it while it is charging. Scrolling is fine now, smooth and with proper inertia but you have to install their app for it to work properly. The only case where it kind of breaks a little is on some web pages that hijack scroll with javascript and do weird thing with it designed specifically for Apple's mice.