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Apple Officially Cancels AirPower
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How to tell if someone hasn't actually tried wireless charging for $100.
And which is best? To launch an inferior product, or realize that there’s no chance to create that product with given specs?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Lame statement. Why should they!
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Why such kidding comment? Does Japan or China have other laws of nature in your point of view?
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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.
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.
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, 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.
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.
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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Eh? They do charge wirelessly and Qi charging mats are sold separately.
No mention of AirPower there so not sure what your point is.
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.