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Dang this Nomad Base Station looks amazing and functionally better than Airpower! Look at the Apple Watch how it stays into place magnetically, better that the Airpower idea which could slip off. And it has 3 coils, it seems to work pretty well with any placement.

Thai isn’t the same as AirPower because there are 2 power sources.
 
Apple is starting to resemble to Google!
Except Google actually ships them at least but then cancels them.

And which is best? To launch an inferior product, or realize that there’s no chance to create that product with given specs?
 
I don't know whether to laugh or to shudder at such an uninformed comment, but nonetheless I'm compelled to ask, you do know it wasn't just going to be a charging mat right? This would've been the first of its kind and left their competitors scratching their heads. Hell maybe it would've won the team who worked on it the freaking Nobel Prize in physics...

.....and yet, left Apple scratching their heads
 
I won’t lie. When I saw this news this morning I was legit like ... wow. I thought Apple solved it since they included it on the AirPods 2 packaging and the release was just around the corner. It’s a shame, but not the end of the world.

I will however be finally purchasing the offical Apple Watch Dock now and I couldn’t care less about wireless charging for my iPhone so nothing will change there.
 
That's why they couldn't sit on it too long. Everyone who owns AirPods with the charging case are wit
I just realized, once the iPhone 11 has power sharing as rumored, AirPower won’t be necessary. Just place your phone on a wireless charging pad and place your AirPods on your phone. You might still need a separate charger for the Apple Watch though.



I got lost in heavy traffic in Orlando once because I believed what Google Maps was telling me and not the road sign that was right in front of me. :)


well at least google map did not take you to an airport runway
 
I've enjoyed the AirPower threads from the beginning. Never seen so many people so upset that they couldn't have something they didn't want.

So, now it's cancelled. There's plenty of affordable wireless chargers out there, as everyone keeps saying. The uniqueness of being able to charge multiple devices without concern about placement was more technically interesting than useful.

And yet we have 50 pages of angst.

Man, how people do love to gloat.
 
I'll just have to but a Huawei or Samsung charging Matt and they charge much faster than I'm sure AirPower would have anyway.
 
Mac Pro might also be cancelled
Lame statement. Why should they!
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I'll just have to but a Huawei or Samsung charging Matt and they charge much faster than I'm sure AirPower would have anyway.
Why such kidding comment? Does Japan or China have other laws of nature in your point of view?
 
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Watching AAPL after hours.....
During regular hours it did fine, dropped about 60¢ after the AirPower news hit, but then recovered and closed higher than before the announcement lol.

Up $1.23 for the day, up further after-hours... by the time after-hours trading ended it was higher than the highest point during the day’s regular trading session.

iow, NBD.
 
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I’m sure another manufacturer will produce an alternative that will be a fraction of the price Apple would have stitched us up for anyway lol. Disappointing of Apple though and amusing at the same time considering this product was announced nearly 2 years ago.
 
During regular hours it did fine, dropped about 60¢ after the AirPower news hit, but then recovered and closed higher than before the announcement lol.

Up $1.23 for the day, up further after-hour... by the time after/hours trading ended it was higher than the highest point during the day’s regular trading session.

iow, NBD.
It's a big deal if companies correct misalignments to eliminate waste of resources. This strengthens Apple. Experts recognized this immediately. Even the consultants on Wall Street ;-)
 
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It's a big deal if companies correct misalignments to eliminate waste of resources. This strengthens Apple. Experts recognized this immediately. Even the consultants on Wall Street ;-)

If it’s waste of resources we want to eliminate, then the Mac Pro ought to be on the chopping board next. It’s a niche product category that will likely sell in small quantities and will never earn enough to recoup the R&D that went into it.
 
LOL... what the hell is going on over there? Let's make a bunch of wireless products and leave it up to third parties to figure out how to charge them.
You mean, let's make a bunch of wireless products and leave it up to third parties to figure out how to provide a WiFi network? Or let's make a bunch of computers without monitors and leave it up to third parties to figure out how to transform the signal out of a (video) port into a visible image on a monitor?
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Incredible. The biggest tech company in the world can't build a charging mat.
Incredible, commenter on a tech website cannot distinguish between a standard Qi charging mat and a charging mat that allow arbitrary placement of multiple devices on the same charging mat.

Or: Incredible, commenter thinks he can trick people into believing that Apple was unable to create a standard Qi charging mat.
 
A Twitter Ad from yesterday, looks like no one warned marketing..
 

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Those multi device charging stations are cheap crap. You're comparing apples and oranges.
That work perfectly well charging multiple devices at the same time. So if they work they ain't crap, and are you saying you would prefer to pay more? Wow, no wonder apple has so much money with you as a customer.
 
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Incredible, commenter on a tech website cannot distinguish between a standard Qi charging mat and a charging mat that allow arbitrary placement of multiple devices on the same charging mat.

Or: Incredible, commenter thinks he can trick people into believing that Apple was unable to create a standard Qi charging mat.

Incredible....neither could Apple
 
I have to disagree.

Apple’s design-led culture, while not perfect, is what made it so successful in the first place.

Even with decades of experience building products and integrating hardware, software, and services, you can still decide to make a smartphone with a hardware keyboard, netbook, circular smartwatch, or a foldable phone.

The reason why Apple has not made any of these, and instead created iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, AirPods, and is now working of Glasses, is design.

Design is the magic ingredience, with Apple designers calling the shots, and searching for and having technology made to serve the product experience, not engineers excited about about new hot tech and trying to turn it into a product. Apple Glasses vs. foldable phones is the latest example of Apple's design culture leading to an entirely different product than what engineering-led companies are doing.

Of course, this can at times lead to Apple fumbling sometimes with products like antannaegate, the trash can Mac Pro, 2016 MBPs and now AirPower, when existing technology just isn’t good enough to meet Apple’s desired vision. But by and large, it has led to more hits than misses for Apple.

It *only* seems like form over function to the uninitiated.

In my experience Apple consists of 2 areas that partly contradict each other, and that's a good thing.

On the one hand there are the internationally active recruiters for innovation (new technology, market transformation e.g. MP3, mobile devices, GUI, App Store, Health, Press Publisher, HEVC). All of these areas were first entered by Apple worldwide and then brainless copied by the competition within 1 to 3 years.

On the other hand, Apple recognized decades ago that functional design is important to lower barriers to market entry in order to generate customer acceptance and thus a willingness to spend money. Design and UI must be simple and self-descriptive, this has largely been retained, even after the death of Steve Jobs. And this is exactly what makes Apple so successful. Since design is also copied, this is actually just packaging, the value of which has always been very competently maintained and innovated by Apple (e.g. unibody manufacturing). The tech core is much far essential for Apple IMO.
 
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No, the point is there were lots of engineers working on AirPower. They couldn’t make it work.

If there were no new content acquisition, TV/games subscription services, no new credit card—it would change nothing. The engineers still wouldn’t have been able to make it work.

Maybe explaining it another way would help. The AirPower engineers had one priority. The highest of priorities. Making AirPower work. That’s 100% of their time, attention, effort and thinking. The content folks? Similar, but different: Putting together deals for great content. The credit card group? One priority. Their highest priority? A successful credit card offering that will absolutely mint cash. It’s going to be a veritable cash cow. And one guess what the gaming subscription groups #1 priority is.

Looking at it another way: Apple has over 130,000 employees. They spend over $1.2 billion each month, every month on R&D. There are quite sufficient resources to work on many projects at once. The last thing we need is the emoji artist doing QA, working on the Mac Pro or designing an induced coil-current offset control feedback circuit.

Totally disagree, Apple has lost focus and become disjointed with all their new ventures and it has clearly had an effect on their hardware design in regards to both innovation and quality.
 
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