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Apple Officially Cancels AirPower
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I don’t have time to read all 46 pages of responses... this may have been said.. I’m guessing I’ll be waking up to class action lawsuit headlines sometime next week as well as members of Congress calling for an official inquiry.
They could at least release an Apple made wireless charging device to keep it all in the family. What the hell...
They could at least release an Apple made wireless charging device to keep it all in the family. What the hell...
Other companies were able to make a charging mat... Wasn't Apple able to challenge physics?
I think Apple uses a glass back chassis since iPhone8 in order to support AirPower. It is much more easier to break and lower the touch feeling of the device. Now AirPower is canceled. It is really a 'good' user experience.
The worse is how this has only been talked after they released the Wireless charging Earpods. Smells like lawsuit.
Yes, because the content programmers and software devs working on those projects were formerly EEs working on AirPower?
Ahhh yes! As an old man I remembered when Panasonic announced the M2 game console that was supposed to be more powerful than the Nintendo 64 and all I heard about that console is the sound of crickets. I'm still waiting to hear when this console will be released lol!
No, they really didn't.Can't buyers sue Apple? I mean, it could be a case of misleading advertising or something, some people purchasedproducts because of this upcoming product...
And if they did, it wasn't reasonable for them to do so.
Can we PLEASE get a new CEO now? Tim Cook just isn't cutting the mustard here. This is beyond embarrassing.
Another stupid comment. The entire reason their execution failed in this case was because they were being too innovative and trying to do something nobody has done before.
If everything they did was easy, then that would show they might not be being innovative. Hell, iPhone didn't work when Steve demonstrated it.
Sounds like Apple wanted to make the pad have infinite x y charging ability using something like 20-30 coils. That way, you wouldn't have to worry about centering your device on the pad. That just sounds so impossible.
Would it be the ultimate Aprils Fools umm... power move to suddenly, announce on Aprils 1st that this announcement was just a joke.
Not if they want to win.
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It’s a shame the forum rules prevent a deserved response to this.
wait.... so.... qi charging, which has been around for years, and is eloquently done by literally hundreds of manufacturers - they couldnt get that right?
i dont want to read a lot into this, but its hard not to see this as a colossal failure and speaks a lot about just how far theyve fallen as a hardware company.
i dont want to read a lot into this, but its hard not to see this as a colossal failure and speaks a lot about just how far theyve fallen as a hardware company.
Sigh.
As has been pointed out dozens of times in this thread, they were not trying to simply do qi charging. They were trying to do something literally nobody has succeeded in doing, which is creating a pad where you do not have to line up the devices in a specific location on the pad.
