I use a Logitech MX Master 3S mouse. It’s fine. It has a ton of buttons, and I use them all. I prefer the experience of using the Apple Magic Mouse in every way– that touch surface is incredible, and works great on Macs. The problem is that the Magic Mouse’s low profile and click feel rapidly gives me RSI pains. Just a couple of hours with that mouse and my right index finger and hand hurts.

I don’t really think there’s anything wrong with the charging port being on the bottom. The meme is funny, I guess, but tired. Plugging in for like 5 minutes gives you hours of use. It just doesn’t matter.

What does matter is the Magic Mouse is, and has been, quite uncomfortable for a long time. They’re there AirPods without silicone of Mac peripherals– they might work ok for a majority, or even large majority of customers, but there’s a sizable portion of the population who will just never be able to use it.

Bad design is not a charging port on the bottom that’s used for tens of minutes every 4 months. There are far greater sins committed by the Magic Mouse, which is a shame, because it’s otherwise quite brilliant and unparalleled.

Nick Heer on Siri:

As a reminder, Apple says users can ask Siri…

…to text a contact by using only their first name.

…for directions to locations using the place name.

…to play music by artist, album, or song.

…to start and stop timers.

…to convert from one set of units to another.

…to translate from one language to another.

…about Apple’s product features and documentation, new in iOS 18.1.

…all kinds of other stuff.

It continues to do none of these things reliably or predictably.

I don’t think Siri is very good, and I would have said I barely use it until I read this list. Because actually, I use Siri to do all of these things (well, except Apple Product features… but my “all kinds of stuff” include lots of home controls and starting specific workouts on my Watch). The only one that I find unreliable is playing Music, which I am quite sympathetic to because my tastes are not mainstream and the names of things are super weird. I wish that would get better.

But by my score, 6/7 of the use cases that exists pre-18.1 that Nick says cannot be done “reliably or predictably” work 100% of the time. The remaining use case, playing music, is a bit of a crap shoot. It’s also the least useful of all of these features (unless you’re still trying to make HomePods happen).

So maybe I do use Siri and maybe it’s fine?