You don't get it:
Apple mouse: sit down to work, dang! mouse battery is flat: lay it on its back and wait for 2 minutes to give it a partial charge before you can get on with your work. Next day/day after: sit down to work, dang! mouse is flat... rinse and repeat...
When my touchpad gives a low battery warning, I can still use it that day, and charge when I leave for home
Then there's the pencil - the charging position is an accident waiting to happen because Mechanics 101 - the slightest knock puts a huge strain on the connector. Again - great for a quickie top-up but if you want to give it a proper charge (e.g. while you're not using your iPad because it is also on charge) you need a fiddly little adaptor which should have been built into the pen lid (so then there's only be one fiddly bit to lose). However, it gets worse: Apple gave zero thought to storing the Pencil when not in use (let alone the cap or adapter) - there isn't even a loop on the smart keyboard accessory and there's no clip on the Pencil so it won't stay in a loop.
Did you even research about the Pencil and charging in the ipad port ?
you would have know that the connector can swivel around, and would take extreme bending to break
on youtube you can
always check what it takes to break Apple products, it's a business
And I use the Pencil just like a normal pen, with an iPad cover with a slot for the pencil, when I used it naked, I carry the pencil in hand...just...like ...a... normal... pen
When I was still using analog paper, my notepad was also in a cover with my analog pen.
And a tip, keep the "fiddly little" adapter attached to your charging cable, problem solved.
Is the Pencil or the mouse unusable because of this? Of course not, but these aren't just non-name imported cheap peripherals - they are premium products from a company that likes to crow about its design chops and create onanistic $300 coffee-table books about how magical their creations are. Apple used to be brilliant about balancing form and function. Now, attention to detail and nice touches (even glowing apple logos, start-up chimes, gently pulsing power LEDs, Magsafe, the little cable-storage ears on power supplies) are being thrown under the bus.
Rant ?
#1 annoying feature of my new iMac: is it on? is it asleep? is it awake but with the screen blank? is it maybe locked up? Who knows...
Are you kidding me, disable sleep, or press the spacebar, wow what a hassle
(equal first: why did making the full-sized keyboard wireless require reducing the key travel and the slope of the near-perfect previous wired keyboard?
Welcome to the new Apple keyboard,
you send me your wireless wimpy keyboard, and I send you the wired with massive travel, I have