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

[goobot]

And AirPower was the only thing I was looking forward to.

 

[richmondhill]

Meanwhile, today at a local Chinese mall in Toronto.....

 

[Sevanw]

Meanwhile at Samsung for 2yrs now...

 

[zorinlynx]

I don't get it; other companies have been creating inductive charging mats for years now that work with last year's and presumably this year's iPhones. Why is Apple having so much trouble?

This really should have been out from day one; it's a bit embarrassing!
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Meanwhile at Samsung for 2yrs now...

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Won't the iPhone 8 and newer charge on that too?

It blows my mind that Apple hasn't gotten theirs out the door yet. This isn't even super-advanced tech.

 

[geoff5093]

I knew it was baloney. An induction mat is too simple.

RF based charging is what they’re actually working on. Mark my words.

Not gonna happen. Way too inefficient

 

[clauzzz203]

What a joke leadership

 

[psingh01]

Vapor Power

 

[geoff5093]

AirPower is clearly a lot more ambitious than what they let on and have run into issues delivering on their goals. Any third rate manufacturer in China can build a Qi charging mat. Apple is very likely going for true wireless charging here. They hint at it given that none of the devices require precise placement on the mat. It probably charges within a certain radius of the mat. This generation would be short range, future iterations would charge at larger distances.

The clue is also in the name "Air" "Power". This is very likely meant to be the first generation of a true wireless power standard and they haven't perfected it just yet. They gotta get the standard right before releasing the first product because every future iteration will be built on what they release first.

That's a great idea, but the phones don't support that. They use Qi which is a standard that relies on the current gen mat technology. When they showed AirPower last year, they showed you having your devices lying flat on it anyways.

 

[JohnDoe98]

Sad. They really should only announce products when they have a working prototype that is ready for mass production. If it has serious issues to work out like it overheating or whatever other obstacle they ran into, they shouldn’t have announced it. Everyone knows that old saying, under promise over deliver, with the new Apple it is the opposite. Let’s just hope the new ECG feature of the series 4 doesn’t turn into another AirPower saga.

 

[IG88]

I know people don't like the "Steve wouldn't have done this" but damn, the 'Pre Tim Cook' Apple didn't announce things over a year before they're actually available for anyone to buy.

Apple did not mention the AirPower at all on stage, despite the fact that it's now been an entire year since the device was announced in September 2017 alongside the iPhone X.

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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.

Yep. And there still isn't...not by Apple either. Vaporware. Poof.

 

[Labeno]

Anyone miss the Apple that used to announce products with the phrase "Available today" at the end.

That was the Steve Jobs era. He knew how to make customers happy. Remember that he added MagSafe to laptops, and Tim took it away. Tim is primary focused on pleasing share holders, which hurts customers. Steve was focused on customers which generated excellent profit and had the side effect of also pleasing shared holders.

 

[Someyoungguy]

They said 2018. So, I don't think it's "safe" to assume anything other than it's not out yet as of 9/12/18.

Removed almost all traces from website. It’s dead.

 

[Tommy c]

Rumors has it will be announce along with the mini mac and new Ipad Pro later on this afternoon.

This afternoon? There was another event?

 

[AppleHaterLover]

Vapor Power

sounds like an excellent vacuum cleaner
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This afternoon? There was another event?

he’s so excited he teleported to October

 

[Tommy c]

sounds like an excellent vacuum cleaner
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he’s so excited he teleported to October

LOL, I'm waiting to see what happens with the MBA. I just got one last month. Hopefully I can sell it for most of what I paid for the new one supposedly coming out.

 

[Baymowe335]

Removed almost all traces from website. It’s dead.

We’ll see, won’t we? I would bet it’s still coming.

 

[macman312]

Why don’t they just release a statement saying it needs more work. They did that with the airpods.

 

[AppleHaterLover]

Why don’t they just release a statement saying it needs more work. They did that with the airpods.

because they would lose billions of dollars in market value in a second.

 

[JohnnyQuest]

It's really quite frustrating, because I've held out on going fully wireless with charging because of AirPower. I want something that can charge all my devices that I use daily at once, and this seemed so SO promising.

 

[NT1440]

because they would lose billions of dollars in market value in a second.

From a charging matt, really? Come on.

 

[macduke]

So they needed nothing. Good for the planet.

There isn’t a lot that any of us actually need. For instance, your comment wasn’t needed, and yet here we are.

 

[szw-mapple fan]

Meanwhile at Samsung for 2yrs now...

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If Apple wanted to make something similar to that they would have released it by now. The AirPower mat wanted to be position agnostic, which is obviously harder to achieve. I haven't seen anything like it on the market yet.

 

[WatchFromAfar]

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.

Someone has beaten them to it:

https://www.androidcentral.com/fcc-just-approved-first-over-air-charging-system

I know that's android central but the content doesn't lie.

 

[laszlo182]

Meanwhile at Samsung for 2yrs now...

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That’s just 2 charging pads combined into one stand..you have to carefully place devices on specific place on it to charge and one pad = one device. Not the case with AirPower, one big pad = 3 devices, no need to align carefully. This hasn’t been made yet.

 

[Tech198]

So, either Apple will surprise us all with with the biggest secret they could ever keep (next to the AppleCar), or it won't be done this year. I guess this is there is no mention anywhere, means we won't even see it this year.

Otherwise they would have mentioned it at the end of the event.