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Apple Officially Cancels AirPower
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Surprisingly, they also work on the hundreds of other Qi wireless charging mats out there
Are you sure those those kinds of wireless chargers will charge with Apple Watch and Airpods too, all at the same time? It only lists phones on the item description page, and I've been burned before.
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I realise it’s sarcasm.. but none were sold. That’s like suing ford for a concept card.
just look for "Qi" as the charging standard and it will work with any other device that support that standard.
The iPhone 8, X, Xs all support Qi. I do not know about watch/airpods, but believe those are Qi as well
Good point. I'm wondering, though, why don't they openly and explicitly declare that, say, Mac Pro isn't a core product anymore? What would they have to lose? An already stagnant user base?
Does Apple want to go the service way? Fine. Just say it. In the last keynote Cook showed a slide with three business areas: hardware, software and services. Surely they started to focus more prominently on services. I really hope they won't ditch completely the other two areas.
Speaking of the Mac Pro, I still think that they will eventually introduce something. Maybe the promised modularity will disappoint some users, anyway we'll get something.
AirPower is probably tricky from an engineering point of view. Yes, it seems a "simple" charging mat. It's a little bit different than the combos already available on the market which have a specific area/base for Apple Watch and separate area for other devices. Maybe Apple struggled to find a viable way to "detect" different devices on the mat and provide them a proper charging accordingly. My speculation, of course, nothing else.
Who knows, maybe one day they will figure out how to have a reliable multidevice wireless charger.
Another think that I don't get it is why are they announcing lately things way before the actual release. Apple TV+ will be available in fall (end of October?). Why did they announce it half year before? Hype, worried to lose potential subscribers? Don't know. Sometimes I feel they are acting like a crowdsourcing project a la Kickstarter or Indiegogo.
Apple should NEVER announce a product they cant deliver on. And then wait over a year to cancel it.
My opinion stands.
It's not just their ability to charge Qi devices, I was looking for a single charging pad that would charge iPhone, Airpods, and Apple Watch all at the same time.
To my knowledge, there is no other product on the market that will do all three together.
As far as we know.. the upcoming Mac Pro still isn’t ready..
Bwahahahahaha! No AirPower guys, but I guess it’s okay for Apple to gaslight their consumer base with dumb million dollar initiatives like AppleTV+ after Amazon’s FIRE STICK has already been doing what their promising for a couple of years already. I bought my Phone/ Watch/ AirPods with the hopes of airpower being a reality ... LET THE CLASS ACTION LAWSUITS BEGIN !!!! Tim Cook is a FAILURE !!!
Release AirPods first and promote wireless charging....Sales start picking up......ok now let’s announce that we’re cancelling AirPower. Apple is failing.
What was going through their heads to not instead just release a normal wireless charger when the first iPhone with it was released. Or even now why don’t they finally bring out just a normal one
there are, but not on a single coil. that was supposed to be Apple's "thing" and why it looks like it fell apart.
any device you find now will just essentially be 3 coils on a single "box". there were a couple linked earlier in the last couple pages. I cannot speak to their quality
It was wrong of them to do that The decision to cancel AirPower would have happened a while back and not announced until signed off by senior management. They should have announced the cancellation of AirPower first and then released AirPods 2 and the wireless case
This may be an unpopular opinion, but I am sort of glad this turned out this way. According to Gruber, the AirPower case wasn’t initially NOT Qi. I imagine they must have been scheduled to be released when AirPower was last year, and they had to change it when they realized it wasn’t going to work. I’m glad my airpods work with any Qi charger, and hopefully the watch goes the same way. The more open standards the better. I’m dreaming of an (unlikely) world where everything is Qi/USB C.
What's your point? So from your statement you're implying Apple engineers didn't understand electric and magnetic field theory. Tim Cook thought he could break the laws of physics? Seems like Apple needs some new engineers.