It basically saves you having to plug and unplug your phone once a day. I have been using it with my iphone 8+ and it is a nice convenience, but once that really just saves you a couple of seconds a day.
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Apple Officially Cancels AirPower
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You can’t buy an “AirPower clone” for $35. You can buy a device with multiple coils, but it’s not an AirPower device.
No it doesn’t already work. No you cannot buy it on amazon.
There are no existing charger pads that support placing multiple devices anywhere on the pad instead of just in precise predetermined spots.
This. You can buy multiple spaced out coils for a reasonable price. However, if you put the device between two coils it doesn't charge. It would make sense that Apple was trying to interlock coils to get full coverage on the pad.
you can buy the Belkin charger which charges phone and watch with only one cable...that's the closest you can get
That's not usually how Apple does things.
They look at a market and say "How can we make this better?". If they can't, they don't.
Actually no. Closest you can get is probably the nomad charger that can charge three devices including the watch, and looks nice too.
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Except the nomad doesn’t do what the AirPower promised to do, so...
BMW could buy a Chevy and slap their logo on it to. Doesn’t make it an M3.
You’re probably the kind of customer Apple is targeting. Not demanding or knowing other companies offer the same experience and even better for a fraction of the cost. Together with that those other companies don’t lock you in and are trying to keep you by innovating their products so you can experience those benefits out of free will.
I’m happy for you that you’re satisfied but don’t spread the fuzz that Apple is the only company able to integrate their software and services at a level nobody can touch. That’s so 2010.
As you’ve could have noticed there isn’t much going on at Apple since 2012. The software experience has gotten buggy and stagnant and their hardware lineup is expensive and mediocre at best.
There is a reason Apple lost the educational business and pro market and those reasons are described above.
Even a dell or hp have caught up to Apple and are offering better suited laptops these days. Most newly introduced hardware are plagued with defects faulty by design. Thermo throttling, faulty keyboards, bending issues, screen issues and the list goes on. Not something you expect from a “premium” brand.
But as long as you surf the Internet, type with two fingers, you’re fine
My childish comments are many steps above such bon mots as: "Haha haha that’ll teach them, I hope it knocked the share price down too!!”
Yeah! Right on! Knock down the share price! Whoo-hoo! Stick it to ‘em! Yeah! Get your drink on!
You see it as negativity, I see it as realistic. Sure, those iPad Pro’s are nice and the iPhone XS is a nice phone to have. But comparing them on features and price they’re not that competitive anymore.
iOS doesn’t benefit the power the iPad Pro delivers and it’s holding it back to a degree I have to question why you should buy one instead of a laptop. It’s too expensive for surfing the Internet, to fragile to carry around as a mobile device and iOS is too limited to replace a laptop or computer.
“It just works” is from before 2012. Most services offered in the USA don’t work here or are half baked.
I’m not seeing Apple cares or is very hard trying anymore. The hardware that came out a few weeks ago prove it. Same old designs and a new chip here and there. Something that should have happen on a yearly base to stay relevant in the technology space.
Nobody but Apple has access to those numbers but Apple apologised for the keyboard issues on the current gen so that should tell you that its significantly more.
Yep I saw those limitations. But then I thought that would be perfect for apple since they would want their customers to buy another when they get a new phone lol
Kind of funny everyone is calling this a failure. Releasing a subpar product would have been a failure.
You’re probably the kind of customer Apple is targeting. Not demanding or knowing other companies offer the same experience and even better for a fraction of the cost. Together with that those other companies don’t lock you in and are trying to keep you by innovating their products so you can experience those benefits out of free will.
I’m happy for you that you’re satisfied but don’t spread the fuzz that Apple is the only company able to integrate their software and services at a level nobody can touch. That’s so 2010.
As you’ve could have noticed there isn’t much going on at Apple since 2012. The software experience has gotten buggy and stagnant and their hardware lineup is expensive and mediocre at best.
There is a reason Apple lost the educational business and pro market and those reasons are described above.
Even a dell or hp have caught up to Apple and are offering better suited laptops these days. Most newly introduced hardware are plagued with defects faulty by design. Thermo throttling, faulty keyboards, bending issues, screen issues and the list goes on. Not something you expect from a “premium” brand.
But as long as you surf the Internet, type with two fingers, you’re fine
Well, it’s an open secret in this forum how I am using my Apple devices. They work well for me, I guess I have been lucky to have avoided the major scandals (didn’t get a MacBook because my iPad Pro has basically taken over, and no bending issues either), I love my airpods and Apple Watch, and the ecosystem is working great for me.
I suspect the reality is that were I to switch platforms, I would simply be trading one set of issues for another. It’s not as though I don’t have friends or colleagues who use android devices, and they have their share of gripes and complaints as well.
For instance, why am I, the de-facto Apple expert at my workplace, supposed to be one who knows that the S8’s QR code reader is hidden in the internet app, and that you need to switch on a toggle buried deep in the settings section to access it? Or the one to help my colleague figure out where to access the hotspot feature on her S10 and change the network name? Or the one my school’s janitor approaches because he is being billed every month by some shady “service” app that came preinstalled on his android device which he is unaware of. Or that another’s phone went dead by noon because Dropbox was left open in the background doing who knows what.
Better the devil I know and all that.
On a side note, I will admit that I finally got to play around with the Dex feature on my colleague’s S10 (since I have an external monitor at my desk), and it’s cool, I give you that. It will probably end up working a lot worse than the initial impression let on, but it definitely got everyone present at the time impressed, even if none of them are ever going to use it thereafter.