Looking for an awkward way to charge your brand new Magic Mouse 2? Why not use an iPhone dock!
Apple unleashed its new Lightning-enabled Magic Mouse earlier this week, featuring a lighter and sturdier form factor, as well as improved “foot design” for a smoother glide.
Despite the fact that it only takes 120 seconds to get a whole day’s worth of charge, a number of users have already criticized Apple for putting the charging port on the underside, with some even calling for the head of whoever designed it.
@tim_cook, whoever designed the way you charge the magic mouse 2 and the apple pencil should be FIRED, immediately.
— tvd (@tvdMD) October 13, 2015
As Mac and iOS app developer Cabel Sasser points out, however, the design means that new peripheral fits onto the existing iPhone Lightning charger, producing a somewhat precarious-looking configuration that Sasser points out he wouldn’t recommend.
I can only imagine the look on poor Jony Ive’s face when he sees this!
Source: Twitter
H/T: Thanks, Sarah!
Luke Dormehl is a U.K.-based journalist and author, with a background working in documentary film for Channel 4 and the BBC. He is the author of The Apple Revolution and The Formula: How Algorithms Solve All Our Problems … and Create More, both published by Penguin/Random House. His tech writing has also appeared in Wired, Fast Company, Techmeme and other publications.
4 responses to “Your iPhone Lightning Dock doubles as a handy Magic Mouse 2 charger”
The reverse actually works well too, on account of the bump where the charger is.
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They really should have designed it to work with that dock. It would have been perfect.
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