It’s an apple Magic Mouse and its new battery backup.

A mouse that can only charge if placed upside down, or in rare 3rd party charging carriages. Apple making things nice, neat and simple as they usually do.

iPhone 15 pro USB C charging a Apple Magic mouse (lightning port located on the bottom).

Doesn't look like any sort of fruit I've seen!

Its belly baking in the hot sun

I have been using LogiTech mice since 1994 and I don't intend to stop until I'm dead.

If LogiTech goes bankrupt, I will spend the rest of my life buying used mice.

I like the idea of magic mouse gestures but I'll never use it because of gestures vaguely at Apple

That makes it very hard to adapt to when you’re coming off of other mice

"You unworthy peasant, you should be grateful that our products even work under your dirty, uncouth hands!" - Apple, probably

The design hasn’t changed since it was AA batteries; it was not designed with the rechargeable battery pack in mind.

The worst you can say really is that it was a lazy upgrade, which is totally valid.

My guess is they didn’t want to redesign the top surface for aesthetics or charitably, perhaps technical reasons to do with the combo touch / click area at the front, and the front is the only place you’d want a port.

I thought it was to force people to use it as a wireless mouse and not just leave it plugged in all the time. Or so someone said. Still annoying but not really on the level of "we're trying to force you to buy two".

This mouse was released when Apple favored a clean design over everything else. While i don't agree with that decision, it lasts for days with just a couple of minutes of charging. Getting people to buy it twice just for that reason had nothing to do with it, who in their right mind would do that?

Yes

Not only is it on the underside, when it's plugged in the sensor stops working. You literally can't use it plugged in.