The newly updated Apple Magic Mouse now has a USB-C charging port, but it's still on the bottom -- and that still doesn't matter.
Since 2015, you've charged the Magic Mouse through a port on its base
It's nine years since the Magic Mouse was first redesigned to be rechargeable instead of having removable batteries. And at the time, Apple's design and attention to detail were commended -- for the sound of the mouse.
From that day to this, though, the Magic Mouse design has been criticized and mocked for how apparently appalling it is that the charging port is on the bottom. It is seemingly an existential threat to mankind that you have to turn the mouse over for a minute.
Because that's the thing. It's a minute. If the mouse battery is so low that you cannot use it, just sticking that cable into the port for a minute or two will get it going again.
Go have a coffee and when you're back, the mouse will have been charged up enough to use for at least, at the very least, the rest of the day. Then leave it charging overnight and you can forget all of this for at least a month.
And that's the other thing. A month. The charge lasts for at least a month.
It does of course depend on how much you use the Magic Mouse. So maybe you are a very heavy user of it, maybe your work is genuinely so time-critical that you literally cannot spare two minutes to charge the mouse up.
If that's the case, the port on the bottom could be genuinely bad and inconvenient -- except for one thing.
The Magic Mouse battery does not die suddenly or quietly. If you are complaining that it's died just when you were on an absolutely crucial job, it's your fault for ignoring all the low battery warnings you have been getting for days and days.
Having that charging point on the bottom is not Apple's disastrously bad design, it's trivial. Keeping it on the bottom after changing the port is a shrug -- and USB-C might even speed up charging
Now, the iMac hockey-puck mouse, that really was Apple design at its worst.