Apple put the Magic Mouse’s charging port on the bottom again

Apple’s new USB-C-equipped Magic Mouse someway inactive has the charging larboard connected the bottom. While Apple could person utilized the motorboat arsenic an accidental to determination the charging larboard from the underside of the instrumentality — wherever the larboard has remained for astir a decennary contempt other updates to the rodent and being mocked for the determination — the larboard is inactive there.

This new $99 Magic Mouse means that, for the foreseeable future, Apple inactive thinks that the champion mode to complaint your Magic Mouse is by flipping it implicit — making it truthful that you can’t usage it — and plugging it in. Why?

There person been different solutions to the ridiculous Magic Mouse charging situation. For example, my workfellow Wes Davis wrote astir an ergonomic grip for the Magic Mouse 2 that tin charge the rodent via MagSafe. But Apple seemingly didn’t deliberation that it needed to marque a large alteration to wherever the charging larboard is, truthful you’ll erstwhile again person to crook it implicit to get immoderate much juice.