Apple Officially Cancels AirPower

[neutrino23]

What a bunch of whiners.

The white iPhone 4 was about a year late.

The G5 laptop never appeared and Steve apologized, sort of.

Did MobileMe ever work well?

Titanium G4 laptop hinges had a lot of failures.

People have very selective memories.

 

[MacOH21]

Better to cancel it than to have it catch on fire .

 

[PJL500]

Apple continues to attempt to put out strange new products when there is a HUGE opening right before their eyes: a decent phone that runs iOS.

 

[davidec]

Oh crikey, a precedent for 'officially cancelling the modular MacPro'. Seems to be following the same trajectory as airpower which obviously they worked out wasn't worth the potential remuneration for the loss of life due to exploding devices.

 

[cmaier]

WHAT IF THIS IS AN ELABORATE EARLY APRIL FOOL'S PRANK BY APPLE TO HIGHLIGHT HOW FAKE NEWS CAN SPREAD AND PROMOTING THEIR HUMAN CURATED APPLE NEWS+.

That would be brilliant.

Then they release them on April 1, someone's has a defect and bursts into flames, and they are sued into oblivion because they knew about the problem (a joke? sure it was!) Hilarity all around!

 

[Gogeta-Blue]

what , wait until I tell my friend
what a shock

now more than ever I'm sure apple lost it's direction
wow

 

[Rodolforq]

What if it was scrapped for a “true” wireless charger, if apple wanted to be innovative again they would strike gold if they achieved it.

 

[cmaier]

what , wait until I tell my friend
what a shock

now more than ever I'm sure apple lost it's direction
wow

I am really looking forward to when you tell your friend. Be sure to let us know how that goes.

 

[varun14]

Samsung says hi.

 

[s54]

Plot twist: Dan Riccio was a paid actor look-alike.

 

[cmaier]

What if it was scrapped for a “true” wireless charger, if apple wanted to be innovative again they would strike gold if they achieved it.

That would be a hell of a lot more difficult than airpower.

 

[TMRJIJ]

What a bunch of whiners.

The white iPhone 4 was about a year late.

The G5 laptop never appeared and Steve apologized, sort of.

Did MobileMe ever work well?

Titanium G4 laptop hinges had a lot of failures.

People have very selective memories.

You mean that G5 Laptop was real?!

FIND IT WHATEVER WAS LEFT OF IT, SHUT UP, AND TAKE MY MONEY!!!!!

 

[tennisproha]

This is why you don’t release products as a working beta.

 

[Khedron]

This is an April fools joke-- if they knew this today, they knew it a month ago and wouldn't advertise it on the AirPods 2 box. They know how thirsty the tech media is for this.

On Monday prepare to hear "April Fools!"-- AirPower is shipping TODAY!

That's not how April Fools works.

 

[thevault]

What’s next? Apple cancelling the 2019 Mac Pro?

Adequate engineering could have caught overheating issues before AirPower was even announced.

If it is canceled or released in 2020 .........I'm done.

 

[rmoliv]

Tim CROOK should be FIRED over this flop.

 

[cmaier]

This is why you don’t release products as a working beta.

to be fair, they announced iphone before they actually had it working, too.

 

[Bazooka-joe]

Its not something i will lose sleep over but in 2017; quote

"This is not possible with current standards, but our team knows how to do this"
- Phil Schiller, talking about AirPower

Obviously he was talking a pile of crap because they didn't know how to do it.

 

[Martius]

Be happy, you saved $199. You can take your wife / husband out to a nice dinner, visit theater & buy some other wireless charger = for the same price.

 

[Rob_2811]

Better to cancel it than to have it catch on fire .

Even better to know that products, you know, work before announcing them to the world.

 

[Soul72]

Probably I can be wrong, but why in all places where the news is reported there isn't a single link to an official Apple communication?
All only write Apple officially cancelled, without mentioning any link to the Apple source

 

[jgbr]

Giving up isn’t the Apple jobs way. Oh I forgot it’s now the Apple cook way.

 

[cmaier]

Tim CROOK should be FIRED over this flop.

BZZZT. Sorry, sir. You lose 200 points for the stupid "tim crook" nonsense that is not close to original and so played out that we all want to gouge our eyes out rather than seeing it yet one more time.

 

[rockarollr]

Wow, what's wrong with Apple?

Tim Cook. That’s what’s wrong with Apple.

 

[cmaier]

Probably I can be wrong, but why in all places where the news is reported there isn't a single link to an official Apple communication?
All only write Apple officially cancelled, without mentioning any link to the Apple source

It was an email from apple to news sources. They didn't post it on their website or anything.