For many years, I’ve found it pretty easy to just ignore the Magic Mouse—whose sleek design is strangely missing a few parts that Apple, an ergonomically-minded company, must’ve meant to include to support a user’s palm, thumb, and pinky finger. But now that I’m working at a real desk inside a real office at a company that hands out Magic Mice by default, I can no longer look the other way as Apple continues this charade.
When Apple completed the original Magic Mouse design and beamed the final CAD drawings to Shenzhen prior to its 2009 launch, I wonder if the company simply goofed up and forgot to include the file with the parts that stopped customers’ hands from stinging like from bees, or scrunching up into small bear’s claws after a month or two.
