I am not worried about it coming out or not, I do not use a lay flat charger for my phone as in that orientation it is not useful for me
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AirPower Misses Promised 2018 Launch, But Might Not Be Canceled
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Why would one want wireless charging in an iPad? I literally can't think of any good reason..
I care, simply because it means I can have 1 thing plugged in instead of 3, both for home and travel. That being said, I'm sure Apple will price me out of the market.
Welcome to Tim Cook’s Apple. Announcing products years in advance but fail to have it materialize.
Ok this would be a story if there was some actual news. Where’s the news here?
Wireless charging on an iPad makes little sense, it would take close to 24hr just to fully charge it.
It does seem kind of odd that a company with unlimited financial resources and access to some of the cleverest minds on the planet would be scuppered by a charging mat.
They simply should not have announced this product so early. I can understand, with their attention to detail, how they might take much longer to develop this type of product than most people would imagine--but why they would choose to announce it before it was proven ready to be produced simply baffles me. It's not like the case of the modular Mac Pro, where they really had no choice but to throw the pros a bone. Nobody would have thought twice if they never released their own wireless charging pad.
That’s because Tim doesn’t have the balls to fire the wrong people for the job
Yeah. At the time it was announced there were not many, if any, chargers that charged the Apple Watch and phone at the same time. Now there are a lot more options, and definitely a lot more that are not $199. The product really doesn't have a place in the market with the price they were originally wanting.
I bought one from Ali, about *$140 cheaper than this thing will be, don't really care for a mat which charges more than one device nor one that's flat on a surface, I got one for my desk, a mat is useless on a desk.
*Think this Airpower mat will be close to/minimum $160
*Think this Airpower mat will be close to/minimum $160
Wasn't one of the other things about it that you could place your devices anywhere on the mat to charge? Current mats have specific points you have to align your device to if you want them to charge. Maybe I'm wrong.
It's more fun than that, the apple consumer considers it a "premium" feature lol.
Money bet is "shes dead Jim"..I think the bigger engineering issue is the coil layout required and what the user experience would be for Apple products. It's not very Apply to have to perfectly line things up for an optimal experience.
And, well nobody wants it to catch on fire.
And, well nobody wants it to catch on fire.
One pad to charge them all! Unless you own an official Apple Watch with a Sport Loop band. Then you'll need to get a third party one, because the Sport Loop band won't fit it.
What features can you add to a charging mat? HomeKit integration? Push Notifications?
Was there demand for yet another mobile phone when Motorola, Erickson, and Nokia (colloquially referred to as MEN, in the wireless industry) dominated the market in 2006?
I'm looking forward to seeing AirPower come out. I am looking for a charger to charge my phone and also my AW S4. So far, none of the 4 chargers I've tried off Amazon that are cheaper can do it. They're all junkYou actually want a wireless pad? But are waiting for a premium one.... you know there are premium charging pads out there if just want to throw $$$ away. They All do the same thing . You can pay a lot more than an Apple lightening cable if you want “premium”
I’m not sure. I have an iPhone 6S and don’t intend to upgrade at these ridiculous prices nowadays. So, whenever I do, I’ll be in the market for a wireless charger. I’m sure lots of people are holding out. And true Apple fans will still buy it when it’s released.
But it doesn’t really matter. It’s just a charger and market share isn’t relevant. I find the HomePod and Apple entering the smart home a far bigger failure of 2018. If Alexa and Google Assistant become the defacto standard every third party device supports, then Apple has already lost.
i think you may have quoted the wrong dude but ill answer u anyway. id just fit it on there the same way i fit kim k's big booty on my lap. aka very carefully. harder. better. faster. stronger.