For those that don’t want to click on this mostly contentless article, it’s the MX Master 3.<p>I also have one and I can confirm that it’s a hell of a mouse. I would recommend it for nearly every type of intensive computer work: web browser stuff, CAD, software development, spreadsheets, editing tasks, anything really. I’ve had people try to convince me to switch before and I never believed it’d make a difference until eventually a friend (mechanical engineer) just gave me hers and now I can’t live without it.<p>Tip, if you don’t want to use the Logitech bloatware the apps LinearMouse and Mac Mouse Fix are both open source and help you get some of the advanced functionality back.
When I worked at Apple, I didn't use the Apple mouse either. I used a USB gaming mouse that fit my hand a bit better. I wasn't the only one, and it wasn't weird in the office. Most people didn't use Apple monitors either, I believe mine was an LG, though I don't remember for sure.<p>I think there's this perception that Apple is this authoritarian company that will execute you for using any competitors' product, but that really wasn't the case. When COVID hit, I bought a giant Samsung TV to use as a monitor, expensed it, and it was approved within the same day. For the first six months I was there, I used an Android, and it worked fine enough for that, even for 2FA stuff.<p>I don't really blame Tim Cook for using a different brand of mouse. It doesn't even imply that it's bad, just not the one he uses.<p>I will complain about my time at Apple all the time, but this is not something that I thought they were bad about.
I thought this was debunked last year? [0]<p>> Soon after, The Verge's Wes Davis attempted to replicate using every Apple product in a single day. During that day, Davis said he mostly used the MX Master 3, but sometimes switched to a Magic Mouse or Magic Trackpad.<p>> In other words, it was Davis who said he himself used a Logitech mouse, not Cook.<p>As usual though, rebuttals/acquittals/etc never get as much traction as the original bs or accusations...<p>[0] <a href="https://www.macrumors.com/2024/11/17/tim-cook-didnt-say-that/" rel="nofollow">https://www.macrumors.com/2024/11/17/tim-cook-didnt-say-that...</a>
Given that Apple was the first home computer maker to offer mice, it's odd how they've lagged behind pretty much ever since. e.g. For a brief while they sold perfectly round "puck" mice that you had to look at to orient every time you grasped them (These are the worst mice I've ever used.). If you didn't grasp them <i>just</i> right, X and Y would become a nausea-inducing mix of XY and YX. It also took Apple decades to finally admit that, yes, at least <i>some</i> users would like more than one button on their mouse. Who else honestly thought that they'd have moved the charging port on their current mice by now?<p>It's been the same since the 90's. If you buy a mac, the first thing you should do is replace the mouse.
(2024) Verge story <i>Tim Cook says he uses every Apple product every day — how does that work?</i> (<a href="https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/22/24276142/tim-cook-wsj-interview-every-apple-product-every-day" rel="nofollow">https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/22/24276142/tim-cook-wsj-in...</a>)<p>> I mostly use a Logitech MX Master 3 but sometimes switch to a Magic Mouse or Magic Trackpad for funsies.<p>Which references a WSJ story, but either that was edited, or the link is wrong <a href="https://www.wsj.com/style/tim-cook-interview-apple-intelligence-vision-pro-48c59018" rel="nofollow">https://www.wsj.com/style/tim-cook-interview-apple-intellige...</a> <a href="https://archive.is/3TwLu" rel="nofollow">https://archive.is/3TwLu</a>
People love to dunk on the USB port being on the bottom.<p>The USB port isn’t the issue: you plug in your mouse, go make a cup of coffee or go get your lunch and your mouse is fine in a few minutes.<p>The bigger issue is that it’s not a very nice to use mouse. Apple mice haven’t been good in a while.<p>Magic Trackpad on the other hand is fantastic.
I don't think the Apple Mouse is intended to compete with any power-user mouse like The Logitech MX 3 or any gaming mouse from Razer, Logitech, whoever.<p>It's meant to compete with the junky little thing you get with your PC that's wired, with who-knows-what DPI and 3 buttons at best. It's meant to be something that slips into your laptop bag and doesn't add *any* more bulk than the laptop itself.<p>So, editorialized, "of course" he's not going to be using an entry level mouse for power user usage.<p>That doesn't change the reality of how good or bad Apple's mouse is because it's not being sold to a power user. From what I've seen, power users tend to use that magic track pad thing, if they're Apple power users using Apple things.
Like keyboards and monitors I think Apple has long since been ok with most folks not using Apple devices for those uses.<p>If you want some stylish things there ya go. More specific features, yeah go get that.
I can't stop the magic mouse from vertical scrolling in GIMP, which zooms the view insanely in and out when the command key is down, or which blasts my fine tracing job to hell at times.<p>I can't stop horizontal scrolling when I absolutely don't want it. I tried all the mouse settings and probed the mysteries of GIMP key remapping (it still may be there)<p>Excellent resolution, but sometimes freaky to use.<p>I really don't want to pay for software to fix all this.<p>I got an MX keys keyboard because Apple doesn't sell a lighted one except in laptops.
Am I the only one in the world who absolutely loves the Magic Mouse. Aside from gaming it's just so comfortable, scrolling is a dream with inertia no one else has figured out how to mimic, and the gestures are natural.<p>Plus horizontally scrolling on long lines of code (or terminal output) is unbeatable.
This is extremely shameless AI-generated blogspam? The post literally links to three more slight variations of the same post under "Similar Posts":<p>- Is Apple’s mouse so bad that even Tim Cook prefers using a different brand ? (sic, can't even get spaces right in the title)<p>- Apple’s mouse is so bad that Tim Cook prefers using a different brand for work.<p>- Apple’s Own Mouse Falls Short, Even Tim Cook Opts for Another Brand<p>Shit editing elsewhere gives it away too, like literally missing the very first character in the first paragraph.<p>While the topic is somewhat interesting, this kind of garbage site should be flagged and killed.<p>Edit: Turns out the whole premise is blatantly false in the first place, according to the top comment of an earlier submission of the same blogspam (flagged):<p>> This is apparently a misattribution: <a href="https://www.macrumors.com/2024/11/17/tim-cook-didnt-say-that/" rel="nofollow">https://www.macrumors.com/2024/11/17/tim-cook-didnt-say-that...</a><p>> > The Wall Street Journal last month published an interview with Cook, in which he said he uses every Apple product every day. Soon after, The Verge's Wes Davis attempted to replicate using every Apple product in a single day. During that day, Davis said he mostly used the MX Master 3, but sometimes switched to a Magic Mouse or Magic Trackpad.<p>> > In other words, it was Davis who said he himself used a Logitech mouse, not Cook.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42168280">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42168280</a>
Why is this fake news blogspam here? Its source was retracted, its text is AI slop, the embedded video is AI slop, the related articles are all AI variations of the same “news” trying to game SEO.<p>No, Tim Cook doesn’t use a Logitech at work. This is a misinterpretation of an article from last November:
<a href="https://www.macrumors.com/2024/11/17/tim-cook-didnt-say-that" rel="nofollow">https://www.macrumors.com/2024/11/17/tim-cook-didnt-say-that</a>...
I have plenty of reasons to be annoyed at Apple, but this is NOT one of them. A mouse is a tactile and highly personal choice and F this article for trying to demonize Tim Apple and his preferred input device.
Probably AI slop, numerous similar things on the same non-topic on the same site. "In a recent Wall Street Journal Interview"... which one? Does it exist? Probably not. No link. Nonsense. Flagging.