Apple couldn't engineer a wireless charger, 5 years after everyone and their grandma already did. The customers still have to resort to unverified and sometimes shady products from third parties. This coming from a company that preaches about power delivery safety over USB-C, lightning, etc. This is not good.
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Apple Officially Cancels AirPower
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They put it on the box because they were done last October. What we got is old stock.
Wow, what's wrong with Apple?
IMO, they are spending too much time focusing on things they should not to. (cars, ATV+, Card, etc)
IMO, they are spending too much time focusing on things they should not to. (cars, ATV+, Card, etc)
At least they admit it - and we don't have to guess anymore.
It wasn't a mess at all- complicated engineering projects like this start and fail all the time, inside every company. The ONE single Mistake AAPL made was announcing it prematurely. After that, it was all the press and consumers and blogs running rampant. And now we see why Apple does NOT normally announce projects before they're ready.
Lesson 1 on why you shouldn't announce products that aren't tested and ready to go. At least people will finally shut up about it. It's a stupid charging pad, I never got the hype to begin with.
What was the last thing they announced and canceled without a release? G5 MBP?
So they are going to be selling AirPods with a mention of AirPower on the packaging this time in 2020 and the product was first announced in 2017.... LOL
Cmon they tried. If Apple couldn’t make it work you know it was pretty hard
And I’d just decided to get some AirPods this weekend and wasn’t going to justify the extra £40 for the wireless case. Wonder if people will swap their wireless for the non-wireless after this announcement.
I wonder what this Kickstarter is able to do but Apple can't https://www.kickstarter.com/project...lds-1st-6-coils-wireless-chargi?ref=user_menu
Perhaps they use different technologies.
Perhaps they use different technologies.
I do find the timing after the Airpods launch to be … sketchy. I think a lot of people would have abandoned the wireless charging case if they knew the Airpower was not going to come.
Don’t fell into this trap people .
This is a set up for April Fools .
This is a set up for April Fools .
I really wonder what the difficulty was. Knowing Apple this likely would've retailed for near $100 and they still couldn't get it to meet their standards? My no name $18 Qi charger worked flawlessly for nearly 2yrs and has great build quality.
I mean, it was already in mass production. The mind boggles at what catastrophic problem they must've found at the mass production stage. It's one thing to create a working solution in the design lab, one with multiple coils placed in a way with absolutely no margin for error to produce the desired effect. Mass producing it, how can that even be achieved at a profitable price point if QA failure results in a product that lights on fire? Hugely disappointing in any case.
This is what I call Friday news dump - this will be forgotten by next week.
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Flat charging pads may be fine for items that can sit flat on a desk or bedside table that don’t require any interaction, but with today’s and likely upcoming iPhones that use FaceTime for unlocking, the flat pad makes no sense. This thing also looked bad, cheap, and wasn’t something I had any desire to have sitting out at home or work. And I can only imagine what Apple thought they’d be able to sell it for.
Good riddance I say.
Good riddance I say.
What went so wrong back and forth to where they thought they were in “the end zone” printing pictures of AirPower on AirPods gen2 retail box? That’s what I wonder