Form Over Function, a Rant

I like the Apple bluetooth keyboard. I am probably one of the few people you'll meet who actually likes the ergonomics the Apple Magic Mouse (I have since it was originally introduced years ago). But put the two of them together on my desk and it's a disaster. The edge of the keyboard is exactly the height of the metal portion of the mouse, so they're constantly colliding, and as you can see from the picture above, it happens so often that the anodized coating has worn off the corner of the keyboard. Because, you know, Apple couldn't have made the keyboard a millimeter or two thicker…it would've offended Jony Ive's aesthetic, after all.

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