For its next trick, Apple is reportedly preparing a Magic Mouse redesign

Apple is moving connected a redesigned successor to the Magic Mouse, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman successful today’s Power On newsletter. This caller rodent would code complaints immoderate users person had, including that pesky charging port.

Gurman writes that Apple’s plan squad has created prototypes of the rodent successful caller months with an oculus toward creating “something that amended fits the modern era.” He doesn’t get into immoderate specifics — the radical inactive hasn’t settled connected a plan — but to accidental that the rodent volition code the charging larboard determination and different “longstanding complaints.” It’s astatine slightest 12 to 18 months distant from release, according to Gurman.

How tin Apple hole a rodent that’s objectively perfect? I’m kidding; aft 15 years of mostly the aforesaid design, the Magic Mouse has plentifulness of country for improvement, adjacent with its caller USB-C revision for the M4 iMac release. Everyone is different, but my wishlist includes adding immoderate mechanical controls, addressing ergonomics (my manus ever cramps aft a while), and not having to spear the mouse’s underbelly to complaint it.

But adjacent if Apple moves the port, I’m inactive a small grumpy erstwhile I person to excavation retired a cablegram to plug successful the MX Master 3 that serves arsenic my regular driver. There are amended ways, similar the Logitech mouse that charges wirelessly via a mousepad that my colleague, Sean Hollister, hasn’t had to intentionally complaint for 2 years. I added MagSafe-style wireless charging by dropping my Magic Mouse into the wireless-charging equivalent of an ergonomic work manufacture sneaker — it ain’t pretty, and I inactive can’t usage it portion it’s charging, but it gets the occupation done. I’d stake Apple tin bash thing better.