<div class="bbcode_center" style="text-align:center;"><i><span style="font-size:16px;">It is a truth universally acknowledged, that the comfort of a Logitech shape, is inversely proportional to the R&D put into its making.</span></i></div>

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It is to my belief that the reason for this law to have persisted without fail, is because Logitech makes descriptive rather than prescriptive interpretations of user behavior.<br><br>

They fail to realize that the grip is merely a reaction to whatever shape the hand comes into contact with, a process of finding one equilibrium point for the hand, amongst the range of stable positions.<br><br>

Instead of recognizing the grip as the hand "making do" with the shape, they hail the resulting grip as some archetypal form, an ideal around which all shapes must strive to elicit -- the Vitruvian mouse.<br><br>

The hand likes to have many stable positions, to have leniency in its grip afforded by the shape; and Logitech, upon observing one optimal position that occur most frequently, decides that the hand must never deviate from this grip, that all other possibilities must be eliminated.<br><br>

And so you end up with the G302, where they take the G100s and carve away every part that the hand relies on for stability; a Gömböc for the hand, unstable in all but one strict position.<br><br>

You can see this misguided thought process in their user study, as Chris Pate mentioned previously, where they "observed" that grips can be split into 1-3-1 or 1-2-2 grips. From this innocuous observation, they make the naive interpretation of "everybody's grip is different, we must accommodate these grips which we observe with definiteness", not considering the obvious possibility that some might be applying one grip over another, out of adaptation rather than out of preference.<br><br>

Perhaps Logitech sees designing a good mouse shape as a protein-folding problem or something, no wonder they have not yet managed to come up with a design that is superior to nature's approach.<br><br><div class="quote-container" data-huddler-embed="/t/1622890/are-mouse-manufacturers-aliens/0_100#post_25835002" data-huddler-embed-placeholder="false"><span>Quote:</span>

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