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Apple Officially Cancels AirPower

Acidsplat said:
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Haaaa! This made me LOL...literally. This meme is the gift that keeps on giving.
 
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Baymowe335 said:
Yeah, you’re still not making sense. Why cancel AirPower now? They could have waited a lot longer than a week after AirPods 2 release of their goal was to dupe you.

You’re speculating. We know Apple cancelled it within the return window, so NO ONE is being forced to keep AirPods with wireless charging if the presumption the consumer had was that AirPower would be available.

Furthermore, preorders for AirPods 2 in a week window are quite literally nothing in terms of revenue impact for Apple, who did $266B in revenue in 2018.
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The AirPods are back ordered as well so many people could cancel their orders as they haven’t shipped yet.
 
If people want to sue Apple because they supposedly bought the wireless AirPods with the full intension of combining it with the AirPower, then all Apple has to do is put out a statement saying the return window has been lengthened for those "victimized" purchasers.
END OF STORY!
 
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The hand wringing over this is hilarious. :rolleyes:

I think the idea to have a simple mat which could charge multiple devices without the user needing to worry about precise placement is "neat", but that it didn't work out to be so easily accomplished with the current state of the technology doesn't really make me think that Apple made a big mistake, and I'm glad they didn't put out a product that had crappy quality.

They definitely have egg on their face from taking the risk to announce it way back in the Fall of 2017 and not be able to announce they were officially canceling until 18 months later... but it's not that big of a deal. I think the Mac Pro still hobbling along from a 2013 design is a lot more troubling to me, personally.
 
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ErikGrim said:
1698 posts! People sure are passionate about a bloody charging mat!

But seriously, this sucks. I hate QI chargers and their finicky placement requirements and this seemed to be aiming to solve this - multi charging would just be a bonus.
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I don’t think it’s about the mat. I think it’s about the fact Apple announced something that wasn’t even completely designed and safely built. That’s what makes them look bad.
 
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Abazigal said:
This video perhaps best explains what I have been trying to say all along. Specifically at T=3 min.
Apple is slow to update their desktops because that's the furthest from what they feel a computer ought to be.

The same design-led process which let to Apple creating the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, AirPods and (currently working on) AR glasses. Even the much-maligned Apple Watch band is an example of Apple "getting it". While it doesn't improve the functionality of your apple watch, it helps improve the aesthetics, which in turn leads to more people being willing to buy one.

When you focus only on technology in a vacuum, you get smartphones with hardware keyboards, netbooks, circular smartwatches and folding phones.

The reason why Apple hasn't done any of the above, and are instead focusing on creating what they are, is design.

Apple Glasses vs foldable phones is the latest example of Apple's design culture leading to an entirely different product than what engineering-led companies are doing.

If you don't like or want the vision of technology that Apple is promising, then the best option is probably to get out of the Apple ecosystem now. Apple is never going to stop being Apple, and that means not listening to their customers and continuing to give them what Apple thinks they want, rather than they say they want.

For better and for worse.
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The movie don't hold up to what it is trying to explain.

Of course the iPhone will replace the iPod and Apple kept the iPod till the transition was done even invested in new iPods. The result: people got a better alternative

Apple isn't paying much attention to it's iPad (iOS isn't ready by far to replace MacOS and is an incapable system outside phones) and Apple has neglecting their whole computer offerings for years (the updated iMacs are incremental and should happen yearly). So you can certainly say they didn't bring a better solution or alternative for the Mac. Instead milking it dry (not a way to handel out of caring deeply for your customers).

All the things they killed in the animation were done by giving customers a better alternative. It's called evolution. All the neglect and things Apple killed since 2012 have to do to push out the largest bills to your customers and came to fruition out of greed.
 
Couldn't agree more. They tried to offer a product that, while not new, would be top in its category, but the technology simply wasn't available. Their vision just couldn't be met with what is possible at this time and they called it off. That's not a bad thing, why make a product that you wanted to make a better version of just to get it to market.

Their customers expect them to be a tad better and they couldn't be in this case so they scrapped it. They have a vision and they are sticking to it. Nothing to complain about really. Just a shame it didn't work out. Though they could have come to the realization earlier and used that time for other improvements and releases, but I guess they fought for as long as they could.
 
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Best prank ever; MacRumors posts article about Apple launching the AirPower mat, shipping today.

Tomorrow, pulls the story in jest and trolls the internet.

MacRumors takes a bow.

Curtain.
 
Peperino said:
Comparing a car to a computer is ridiculous and shows you understand nothing about computers.



Airpods are ugly, and look like you have a pair of antennas coming out of your years. They do not isolate sound, sound quality was average and they were overpriced (as anyting Apple these days).
The Jabra got much better reviews, better sound quality and better sound isolation.
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Clearly AirPods are a failure

https://mashable.com/article/airpods-60-percent-wireless-earbuds-global-market-share/#ajY3SYqrniqZ
 
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Peperino said:
Comparing a car to a computer is ridiculous and shows you understand nothing about computers.
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I've probably been using computers longer than you've been alive. I was programming my Commodore 64 when I was 12 in 1982. I've been a graphic designer and art director for 25 years, so I know a bit about good design, as well.

Just because you disagree with me doesn't mean you have to leap to "you understand nothing about computers." Grow up.
 
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mudflap said:
I've probably been using computers longer than you've been alive. I was programming my Commodore 64 when I was 12 in 1982. I've been a graphic designer and art director for 25 years, so I know a bit about good design, as well.

Just because you disagree with me doesn't mean you have to leap to "you understand nothing about computers." Grow up.
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We are the same age, except I had a spectrum. Bless people that think computers started with mice :)
 
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Rogifan said:
Ken Segall (who used to work with Apple marketing in the late 90s/early 2000s) has scathing words for Tim Cook.

https://kensegall.com/2019/04/01/airpower-a-fiasco-beyond-imagination/
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“Never in history has Apple announced a product, gone silent about it for 18 months, and then killed it before it ever shipped.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copland_(operating_system)
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mudflap said:
I've probably been using computers longer than you've been alive. I was programming my Commodore 64 when I was 12 in 1982. I've been a graphic designer and art director for 25 years, so I know a bit about good design, as well.

Just because you disagree with me doesn't mean you have to leap to "you understand nothing about computers." Grow up.
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TRS-80 model I, age 8. First computer I owned was a TI-99/4A.

Those were the good old days, am i right?
 
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cmaier said:
TRS-80 model I, age 8. First computer I owned was a TI-99/4A.

Those were the good old days, am i right?
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That's awesome! I forgot I had a Timex Sinclair before the C64 but it was mostly useless. I do miss those days. I miss my Amigas. The Amiga 4000 could emulate a Mac that ran faster than the actual real Mac. I do not however miss the overheating C64 power supply. Before I could afford a floppy drive I would spend all day typing in code from a magazine for a game, and then it would overheat and I'd lose everything -- hours and hours of work. LOL
 
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mudflap said:
That's awesome! I forgot I had a Timex Sinclair before the C64 but it was mostly useless. I do miss those days. I miss my Amigas. The Amiga 4000 could emulate a Mac that ran faster than the actual real Mac. I do not however miss the overheating C64 power supply. Before I could afford a floppy drive I would spend all day typing in code from a magazine for a game, and then it would overheat and I'd lose everything -- hours and hours of work. LOL
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I remember that our district went with TRS-80’s and the district my mom worked at used PETs (and later VIC 20’s). She brought me to work one day and left me in the room with the PETs and I was baffled by the “weird” keyboard and slightly-different behavior of the commodore machines :)

Our district later went with Apple ][‘s, which I loved but our family couldn’t afford.
 
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