Well, the wireless Mac Pro is totally going to be cancelled, mark my words
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Apple Officially Cancels AirPower
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Well, the wireless Mac Pro is totally going to be cancelled, mark my words
I'm pissed they waited until AFTER the AirPods wireless charging were launched. I purchased the Wireless charging case with my AirPods specifically for the future AirPower functionality. I have almost no interest in buying some 3rd party wireless charger.
I doubt anyone lost their job. They clearly couldn’t get it to work the way they wanted too.
My AirPods didn’t have the AirPower on it. Could of been a mistake with the first batch.
This literally made me laugh out loud. Not because I’m some hater who wants Apple to fail, but just because of the absurdity. Of all the amazing things Apple has created, how is a wireless charging plate what stumps them?
People who purchased them are well within their return period should they decide they don't want them now.
Samsung will now make it to prove they are capable of whatever Apple isn’t (just like under display finger prints sensor).
Maybe they can go back to the old Apple where they under-promised and over-delivered? That was much more exciting and impressive.
Schiller should have his wages docked for announcing it.
Schiller should have his wages docked for announcing it.
Wow. Just wow! Why am I not shocked? lol
This will go down as the biggest fudge-up in Apple history. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think that Apple has ever released products with picture/schematics/layout (on the box) of another product that never made it into production or has been entirely canceled.
Is this a first?
This will go down as the biggest fudge-up in Apple history. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think that Apple has ever released products with picture/schematics/layout (on the box) of another product that never made it into production or has been entirely canceled.
Is this a first?
It would be very hard to argue that anyone suffered any damage since everyone is still within the 14 day return window.
On the bottom of the box it doesn't say "works with Airpower mat and Qi-certified chargers"?
You can expect the same news for the Mac Pro too. We just don't know how to build a box.
What was to say that the image was Apple AirPower? There are plenty of charging matts that look like AirPower, eg...
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https://www.ebay.co.uk/ulk/itm/163612861870
That’s probably the most bizarre thing about the cancellation. That charger on the AP2 box is clearly the AirPower.
Apple's influence reaches far and wide. There are probably vendors previously involved with AirPower that are laying people off as we speak, based on this announcement. If it were a prank, it would potentially be at the expense of some people's livelihoods, and that would be pretty awful.
It was a dead end product, would never have made them money. Apple is a platform company, they make money from the hard work of others.
Yeah, just like them killing AirPorts... right at a time when we need quality secure networking, with Bluetooth/ZigBee/WiFi mesh capabilities to make all this ‘Home’ stuff actually work. Instead, nope...
That's true. But it comes off as very shady that they waited until after the AirPods release to announce the cancellation.