Well, he can get an EV out of the door. Still waiting for Tim Cook to manage it with hundreds of billions to fund it.
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Apple Officially Cancels AirPower
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Well, he can get an EV out of the door. Still waiting for Tim Cook to manage it with hundreds of billions to fund it.
LOL! [I laugh because your idea may come to be true. (Of course, with Subscription Vending Machines only accepting the titanium AppleCard)]
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Ahhhh.... It must be afternoon in Singapore. This, because ADF East is now in full force.
[Wearables ... wearables ... wearables... nothing else matters]
Sure, everybody can take two Qi charging mats and glue/stitch them together. It's the arbitrary placement + being also able to charge the Apple Watch (which standard Qi charging mats cannot) that Apple tried and failed to implement (and so everybody else did so far).
Wow, a company whose entire business model is built around selling cars managed to do precisely that - ship a car. Never mind that it’s still unable to meet demand and the CEO seems increasingly erratic of late.
Apple’s working on self-driving vehicles, not just electric vehicles. In addition, Apple’s end game is likely the autonomous ride-sharing, not the sale of vehicles in itself. Last I checked, Tesla is no closer to achieving this goal despite having made such a huge deal of it for so many years.
No doubt Elon Musk is the visionary that a young upstart like Tesla needs right now, but I don’t want him anywhere near Apple.
An ironic condemnation, considering that AirPower was designed to complement iPhones and wearables, and I am not defending airpower here.
It doesn’t take a genius to see where Apple’s priorities are right now. Mobile, wearables, health, AR. Apple has moved on in keeping with the times and maybe it’s time you all did as well.
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Yeah it's odd
The wireless duo I have for S10 plus can fully charge in 1 hour, 40. Basically as fast as the the cable
Ok you've got literally no evidence of this at all, nothing to indicate that Apple is working on anything that is superior to the autonomous functionality that Tesla is already shipping.
Again, nothing to suggest that anything revolutionary is coming in that space from Apple, much like everything else they've shipped under Cook.
There comes a whole lot more together building electric smart cars than clueing parts together from other vendors and put an
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And getting the highest margins with the minimal efforts.
Interesting times at Apple lately, products being announced with vague details and products being canceled.
This and really can the “Tim cook has to step back” shouting stop please? Reminds me a bit of the “lock her up” culture a certain president has been forming in a certain country. Cmon it’s not his fault that physics forbid that it could work. It was his fault that they announced it, but I’m sure that the engineers back then were enthusiastic about it and wanted to prove that they can pull it off if they go the extra mile. Humans fail, sometimes it happens. I’m super sad about it because i really wanted AirPower
And I’m sure if they couldn’t pull it off, we will never see a product like that, at least not with current inductive charging tech. I ordered the nomad one which is an ok Solution for charging both the phone and the AirPods, but I really wanted an option to charge the Apple Watch OCCASIONALLY on my desk too. Just for updates and music transfers. Because in my bedroom where the Apple Watch charger resides the WiFi is poor and music transfers are too slow.
There comes a whole lot more together building electric smart cars than clueing parts together from other vendors and put an
What Apple needs right now is Eisenhower, not Churchill. Apple is no longer the scrappy young upstart with nothing to lose, and what it needs most now is stability, not a loose cannon who can’t even be trusted to moderate his own twitter presence online. And I happen to like what Apple is doing right now. It makes perfect sense to leverage on Apple’s strong mobile presence to enter adjacent markets whose success is predicated on precisely that. I just wish more of their services like Apple news were available in Singapore. I would sign up for it for sure.
Apple is busy suing the owner (Qualcomm) of the Quickcharge technology Samsung uses to protect their profit margins.
Yeah, been waiting for this to
we were hearing a lot about it in the Alternative section for a while, now it turns out they can't even make a decent wireless charger 
Then don’t announce it, unfinished, more than a year ahead of time. This was a completely avoidable, public embarrassment for the company and its entire leadership/executive team.
“Steve would be LIVID.” — Yeah. I said it. In fact, I’ve said it to myself a few times recently.
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When Apple announced AirPower they thought it was something they could sell for $150-$200.
Companies like RAVPower are selling excellent wireless fast-chargers for $25-$30.
AirPower was a good idea that wasn’t worth bringing to market due to the competition & cost. Very embarrassing for Apple all the same though. Let’s hope they don’t do the same with the Mac Pro...
Well Qualcomm are far from innocent in that situation but it gives you an insight into where Apples priorities lie.
The 5w charger in the box is an insult for a £/$1000 + phone really, even without the Qualcomm tech they could include the charger to make faster charging work out of the box but they care too much about their margins. They would rather you paid extra for it.
So you don’t think the technology of a pulse engine could be translated into an a/c current alternator, if you will? You’d need a charging block, yes?
You sound like a terrible person.
Against the advice of their engineers:
But late last year, with the product absent from the most recent iPhone launch, noted Apple insider Jon Gruber wrote: "There are engineers who looked at AirPower’s design and said it could never work, thermally, and now those same engineers have that 'told you so' smug look on their faces."
AirPower. Butterfly Keyboards. iPad Pro's bending. Continued delays with the Mac Pro. The initial issues with the MBP's overheating and throttling.
Something is affecting Apple negatively when it comes to their hardware design. Maybe it's as simple as things are becoming incredibly complicate and crap like this will happen. But, if top leadership is too distracted by the pivot to services then they may be ignoring valuable input from their engineers.
You literally said EXACTLY that...
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Wireless power engineers are not the same people that would have worked on keyboards. Like a plumber being asked to fix your electrics.
It better reduce the cost of the Apple Watch now!
Because you are literally paying Apple for tech and a feature you will NEVER be able to use, all because of Apple!
They have actually screwed up bad here, a sensible company would firstly NEVER have shown a product so far ahead of any potential launch, and they should never have stuck, now useless waste of money, charging tech into other devices.
The only caveat here is if the coil in the watch is the same one as used by its little charging pick anyway. I do hope so.. wireless AirPod charging case seems pointless now though?
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I would say firstly it’s form over function, and secondly they are pulling far far too many resources into things like the Apple car or iPhone or Now services.
But Apple hardware has always had issues. So it’s nothing new really, only the massive price increases are. Generally though they work.
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Cool, I walked into the Apple store on Tuesday and drooled all over the new IPad Pro! And asked questions to the staff about it that were answered and it is one great device. I didn’t insult them or proclaim Samsung was better..
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