Agreed, they're my favorite keyboards and the trackpads in general (including the Magic Trackpad, which has weaned me off mice altogether) are fantastic. Mice are definitely one area where it seems like the accusations of going with form over function actually hold some water. I'm not sure why this one particular peripheral (especially one that has been so central to their products) has gotten so little love over the years.
For example, I actually loved the Mighty Mouse. However, it only takes one attempt to use the weird squeeze buttons on the sides (one on each side, and they have to be pressed simultaneously for it to do anything) to pretty clearly see that those side buttons were an ergonomic nightmare. The means of triggering a right-click were also pretty insane- you had to make sure that you weren't touching any part of the left side of the mouse when you clicked it. I get the engineering tradeoffs that required it to be implemented in this way, but it was really nonintuitive and wasn't documented anywhere as far as I could tell. Lots of people just did ctrl-click for right clicking instead of using the mouse, it was such a hassle.
The only saving grace there is that right clicking isn't nearly as fundamental to most Mac UIs as it is on other platforms. It's surprising how many people use Macs every day and don't even know that there is a right click, even though I can't imagine using OS X without it. I pretty much just ctrl-click these days when not using a trackpad or a third-party mouse.
For example, I actually loved the Mighty Mouse. However, it only takes one attempt to use the weird squeeze buttons on the sides (one on each side, and they have to be pressed simultaneously for it to do anything) to pretty clearly see that those side buttons were an ergonomic nightmare. The means of triggering a right-click were also pretty insane- you had to make sure that you weren't touching any part of the left side of the mouse when you clicked it. I get the engineering tradeoffs that required it to be implemented in this way, but it was really nonintuitive and wasn't documented anywhere as far as I could tell. Lots of people just did ctrl-click for right clicking instead of using the mouse, it was such a hassle.
The only saving grace there is that right clicking isn't nearly as fundamental to most Mac UIs as it is on other platforms. It's surprising how many people use Macs every day and don't even know that there is a right click, even though I can't imagine using OS X without it. I pretty much just ctrl-click these days when not using a trackpad or a third-party mouse.