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Apple Officially Cancels AirPower
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Yeah. This only matters if you want it to matter. If you don’t want it to matter, it literally doesn’t.
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I would like to see this happen. But I think a snowflake has a better chance of falling in the Mojave desert in the summer.Can you imagine if they released AirPower for real on April Fools Day? That would be so confusing
The electromagnetic radiation emitted by light bulbs in your house are about 10,000 times higher in frequency then any RF domain charging device.
AirhPowah! You'll burn everything!
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Same, bought my Nomad stations (w/the watch charger) literally 20 mins after the AirPower news dropped.
There was no spin to this. The concept is one that nobody has brought to market and maybe for good reason...no other company could figure out how to do an “AirPower”.
I’m waiting to see how far off apple’s vision is considering last quarter was $84b. Maybe their vision is spot on with no tip of the iceberg to be seen.
Totally agree... I think I plugged in my phone for the first time yesterday on one of my desk cradles. I was actually wondering off the other end of that cable was plugged in and was too lazy to look under the desk.
I use wireless chargers my office, home and car. I also have one for travel, but when in the air, if I need a charge I plug it in inside the carry on. Shameless plug for fuse chicken: https://www.amazon.com/Fuse-Chicken...eywords=fuse&qid=1553963755&s=wireless&sr=1-1 it works well.
Anyhow... I'm not bothered by the cancellation of AirPower. I wasn't going to buy one anyhow. Sure, it was poorly handled by Apple and I'm sure they learned from the experience on the marketing side. At the end, if it were released, people would have complained on the price, or that it did not charge fast enough. Seemingly people here just love complaining about something. Also, so many aren't seeing it for what it was, not a simple charging mat. My AirPods charge just fine on my Fuse Chicken travel charger and on my desktop cradles. I'm over it.
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Still no press release on Apple website...The whole "We've canceled Airpower" message was delivered via some "email" to TechCrunch...To me, it sounds like Apple is actually preparing to launch the Airpower on April 1st.
Mark my words.
p.s. if i would be Tim Cook, i would do exactly the same thing
Mark my words.
p.s. if i would be Tim Cook, i would do exactly the same thing
That isn't actually overdramatic for me- I can't speak for others. I used to be so fanboi-esque hyped for every Apple event and announcement. I would sneak watching it or following it at work and go over every detail. Remember "one more thing"? The announcement of the iPad? The announcement of the Macbook Air sliding out of the envelope? Not to mention the original iPhone event. Now I don't even watch them anymore, just look at the news afterward.
The poster I responded to said he would be wary of purchasing Apple devices in the future because of this. Because of this he would have less trust in Apple products moving forward. I said that doesn't make sense because they didn't release this product because it didn't meet their standards. If they aren't releasing a product because it doesn't meet their standards wouldn't that make you feel good about the products that they do release?
Easily millions...probably spent that just in legal fees securing naming rights and patent costs.
Um, no. Even if you use an external patent agent, it costs maybe $10k to obtain a patent. (I charge a lot more than that, but I’m worth it).
I actually took the time to google budding vs butting because my instinct was just to say 'I'm right, what are you talking about'. Apparently it's a regional thing. If I said "butting" in person here, either I'd be told I was wrong or the person would nod politely while thinking 'the idiot can't speak properly/' Nice effort making fun of some for their location with your "mute" attempt to disregard my opinion as moot. Is that really the only argument you can raise, an ad hominem attack based on where someone is from? Classy.
Just as wrong are your opinion that selling well means a product is good. Do your think kraft dinner (sorry, kraft mac and cheese where you come from) is the finest food on the market? McDonalds is your favourite high-end restaurant? Standing-room only on a subway train must be a more pleasant travel experience than riding around in a Bentley or Ferrari. Well by your logic anyway. Of course your logic says that you should insult people based on where they are from.
And you say an opinion that something popular is still bad should be considered moot. So popular is always right. You would have been anti-civil rights in the 60's. Pro-slavery in the 1820's? Hitler's Germany would have loved you. In the 1920's you would have been lining up to prevent women from voting? Because you feel you have to stand up for what you see as popular?
I'd say that idea is more plausible than any argument for the majority of iOS7's UIx elements being a functional improvement over the prior iOS (all green felt, woodgrain, and stitched leather stylistic elements aside).
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I think too many Chinese manufacturers already make similar devices which work for cheap so Apple can not charge a premium as they always do for something that just charges you device.
How about reading your own posts and my replies back in order and then understanding.
I like how you added in the part of my last message that wasn't a reply to you at all. Great job.
Lmao. Your statement sounds like an April fool's joke, but it's friggin' March 30, so it seems to be the harsh truth.
For anyone interested, MKBHD released an explanation of what seems to have happened here.
Long story short, it appears that Apple couldn’t solve the “put your devices anywhere on the mat” problem which sounds trivial, but is a big deal. You’d have to have a ton of coils overlaying each other and figure out what to do with all the heat generated. It would have been an incredible feat of engineering if they pulled it off.
I know there are lots of disappointed people, and Apple does look kinda goofy here, but kudos to them for giving it a shot. I think the real mistake was announcing it too early. And let’s be honest, the writing has been on the wall for a looooong time.
Long story short, it appears that Apple couldn’t solve the “put your devices anywhere on the mat” problem which sounds trivial, but is a big deal. You’d have to have a ton of coils overlaying each other and figure out what to do with all the heat generated. It would have been an incredible feat of engineering if they pulled it off.
I know there are lots of disappointed people, and Apple does look kinda goofy here, but kudos to them for giving it a shot. I think the real mistake was announcing it too early. And let’s be honest, the writing has been on the wall for a looooong time.
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