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After No Sign of AirPower at Today's Event Apple Wipes Most Mentions From Website

Gamer9430 said:
Even if it comes out, it’s still horribly over priced (although given the fact that Apple is pushing a $1500 iPhone +$300 in protection for it, people will apparently buy anything...) and they seem to deliberately be avoiding the topic at all costs and removing almost every mention of it on their website.

I liken this to the Apple Watch Walkie-Talkie feature, which was announced at the AW S0 launch, never came to fruition and was shoved under a rug, and now Apple is pushing it as a completely new feature in watchOS 5.
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You know the price of it?
 
NT1440 said:
It’ll be announced in October.

I don’t understand the insane levels of outrage, this is an incredibly complex device that provides functionality that literally nothing else on the market does.
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It’s basically a longer version of current wireless chargers on the market. It’s not complex if the charging tech is already present in the current iPhones.
 
yeah said:
It’s basically a longer version of current wireless chargers on the market. It’s not complex if the charging tech is already present in the current iPhones.
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There is NOTHING on the market that allows you to place a device *anywhere* on a matt for it to charge.

Functionality wise that may not be a big deal to people (it certainly isn’t to me), but from an engineering and technology standpoint it really is a super complex problem that no one else has managed to solve in the year since Apple announced. That alone should tell people how difficult it is to actually do this.
 
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NT1440 said:
There is NOTHING on the market that allows you to place a device *anywhere* on a matt for it to charge.

Functionality wise that may not be a big deal to people (it certainly isn’t to me), but from an engineering and technology standpoint it really is a super complex problem that no one else has managed to solve in the year since Apple announced. That alone should tell people how difficult it is to actually do this.
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I wonder if they have solved the issue, they just aren't releasing it because the problem that needs to be solved is not worth the price of the product. A $50 charging mat from Amazon can have three spots, who cares that you can just toss your iPhone onto the AirPower and they'll charge anywhere on it? Is that worth the premium price?

I would guess that for most it isn't.
 
Airpower is a good example of the unorganised mess that Tim Cook has created.

What the hell is going on at Apple?????
 
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macduke said:
I'm hoping they have restarted the entire project with the goal of delivering true, wireless power over the air without charging mats. For now we can just use third party chargers. What sucks is the people who have been waiting and haven't purchased something else.
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Oh we will get it over the air wireless charging. It will probably be about 10 years after Samsung adds it.
 
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Well that’s embarrassing and really annoying. I’m done waiting for them to make this. Probably never happening too if they’re scrubbing their site of it
 
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Who really needs a maxi-pad charger? I'm waiting for the launch of the iClapper to go with my new MedAlert ("help I fell down and I can't get up") watch bracelet.
 
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It's just plastic with a copper coil inside. There's nothing new or complex about inductive charging.

NT1440 said:
It’ll be announced in October.

I don’t understand the insane levels of outrage, this is an incredibly complex device that provides functionality that literally nothing else on the market does.
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I must admit I was surprised at no mention of this, but personally, I don't use wireless charging for my iPhone 8 anyhow.
 
BlargKing said:
I had a charging mat for my Galaxy S4 in 2015. Im no Apple engineer but surely it cannot be this difficult to make a product of their own based off an already existing technology?
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There is something called "Apple Standards". Sure, to make another product like everyone else is easy. But why would we need Apple, if thats all we want?
 
$150 was an obscene price point for what it does. Chargers can be had on Amazon for $12 that work flawlessly.

Their key tech they were claiming would have been hacked in 3 months for 1/8 the cost and they know it.

Glad it’s dead.
 
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macduke said:
I'm hoping they have restarted the entire project with the goal of delivering true, wireless power over the air without charging mats. For now we can just use third party chargers. What sucks is the people who have been waiting and haven't purchased something else.
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So they needed nothing. Good for the planet.
 
The fact it’s been virtually wiped from the site means it’s most likely a dead product. Sad they couldn’t figure it out even a year after announcing it. Apple needs to stop with that stuff anyway. Too many things have been announced and either don’t ship or ship very late for both hardware and software.
 
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