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It was just a Qi charger. The concept demonstrated nothing else aside charge a few devices all at once.

Apple couldn't make it work. Meanwhile various Chinese companies have had devices that can charge multiple devices on the market for a while now. Yes, they are not as elegant, but Apple's design was impossible to bring to market.
You’re purposely oversimplifying it to minimize the planned benefits. This was never going to teleport you to the moon, but for a wireless charger, it was a significant improvement to what exists today.

AGAIN, the Chinese companies have charging mats with multiple spots. That wasn’t AirPower. Chinese manufacturers also don’t have the same hardware standards, software integration, or functionality.
 
It was just a Qi charger. The concept demonstrated nothing else aside charge a few devices all at once.

Apple couldn't make it work. Meanwhile various Chinese companies have had devices that can charge multiple devices on the market for a while now. Yes, they are not as elegant, but Apple's design was impossible to bring to market.
In one sentence AirPower was just a Qi charger, in another sentence Apple couldn’t make it work. So either Apple couldn’t make a simple Qi charger work or you really realize what AirPower was and for reasons of your own downplayed the functionality.
 
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My NOMAD phone/watch hub just arrived. Love it. The Xs Max needs to hang off the charging pad just a hair or lay completely across the front to charge but it works-and the phone makes a noise when its charging so that's usable. I like the LEDs on the front to let me know the watch is charging. Overall a well built product and minimal user adjustment necessary. Perfect overnight charger!
 
Charging my Apple Watch on a flat pad where I couldn’t see the screen wouldn’t have appealed if I’m honest. Paying £150 just for the ability to be able to drop my phone anywhere on a pad also doesn’t really excite me. It would have been a lot of development for something which in all intense and purposes sounded a bit dull. Oh well it doesn’t exist anyway now so it’s not a concept that can really be defended at this point.
 
In one sentence AirPower was just a Qi charger, in another sentence Apple couldn’t make it work. So either Apple couldn’t make a simple Qi charger work or you really realize what AirPower was and for reasons of your own downplayed the functionality.

There was no functionality as it Apple couldn't make it work.
 
What your are saying logically doesn’t follow since u don’t know if AirPower didn’t work or didn’t meet exceedingly high standards. There is a difference.

It didn't work. Apple stated they couldn't manufacture the thing. This was due to the fact that it heated up and became dangerous. It didn't meet Apple's "high standards" because burning people's homes to the ground isn't good for their reputation.
 
It didn't work. Apple stated they couldn't manufacture the thing. This was due to the fact that it heated up and became dangerous. It didn't meet Apple's "high standards" because burning people's homes to the ground isn't good for their reputation.
It must have worked to some extent in their labs. They probably weren’t able to scale it up for mass production.
 
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It didn't work. Apple stated they couldn't manufacture the thing. This was due to the fact that it heated up and became dangerous. It didn't meet Apple's "high standards" because burning people's homes to the ground isn't good for their reputation.
What apple said was it didn’t meet their high quality. Therefore one doesn’t know if it was working or not. My guess it was working and therefore it was an innovative product that didn’t see the light of day.
 
It must have worked to some extent in their labs. They probably weren’t able to scale it up for mass production.

I highly doubt it’s a scaling issue. That would be a very funny and nonsensical issue for Apple if it were true

It was most likely that it didn’t work as they thought or hoped it would, i.e how they marketed it wouldn’t have met customer expectations
 
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I highly doubt it’s a scaling issue. That would be a very funny and nonsensical issue for Apple if it were true

It was most likely that it didn’t work as they thought or hoped it would, i.e how they marketed it wouldn’t have met customer expectations
They must have had something working to have the confidence to talk about it at the keynote. I doubt it was vapourware. You can’t really talk about a concept there has to to some substance to it.
 
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They must have had something working to have the confidence to talk about it at the keynote. I doubt it was vapourware. You can’t really talk about a concept there has to to some substance to it.

You can talk about anything you want at a keynote.

I personally think they had a working prototype but didn’t go thru the rigorous testing processes to ensure it met their standards. They probably felt confident their proof of concept at the time would carry over to production pretty easily
 
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It didn't work. Apple stated they couldn't manufacture the thing. This was due to the fact that it heated up and became dangerous. It didn't meet Apple's "high standards" because burning people's homes to the ground isn't good for their reputation.
You don’t need to make crap up, it just makes you look like someone that likes to post Apple-hate, and makes up foolish statements.

You don’t know it heated up, you don’t know it was dangerous. As to standards, not burning down the house is the lowest standard one might imagine.

An example of a high standard would be being able to actually place it anywhere and have it charge, as advertised. Who knows, maybe there were dead spots and to Apple, it wasn’t acceptable to have to move the phone 1/4” to have it charge. Other companies would have shipped it anyway, and just put an extra sentence in the owners manual “If your devices fails to charge, move it slightly from its current position.” Sorry, not good enough for Apple.

Yup, they shouldn’t have pre-announced and they’re going to get raked over the coals for having done so... that’s to be expected; have at it and have fun. But don’t play dumb and try to pretend Apple was just trying to do what “various Chinese companies” have already done. Those Chinese companies make low-tech, specific placement chargers, not a random placement charger—and you know it.

Claiming “AirPower didn't offer anything new when it was announced aside from being able to charge multiple devices at the same time” is nearly the same trolling-level crappost as your “iPhones don’t do anything different from Androids but cost 5 times more” post.
 
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What your are saying logically doesn’t follow since u don’t know if AirPower didn’t work or didn’t meet exceedingly high standards. There is a difference.
You make an excellent point. We don’t know why Apple cancelled AirPower. We might never know (although I’d really, really love to find out!). If I recall correctly there were working demo models on view at the September 2017 event. In some way the hoped-for production model didn’t meet Apple’s expectations and we might never get to see it...however, I still hold out some (very slim) hope that it might reappear in some form in the not-too-distant future....
 
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Due to our high standards unfortunately air power can't meet it. They are talking as if AirPower is another company and they failed to meet Apple's request lol
 
It didn't work. Apple stated they couldn't manufacture the thing. This was due to the fact that it heated up and became dangerous. It didn't meet Apple's "high standards" because burning people's homes to the ground isn't good for their reputation.
Why you acting like you know what happened?
 
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It had to happen! The AirPower lookalikes are coming. Just read about AirUnleashed. Looks very like AirPower but much simpler. Still, it comes with a serious price! Interesting to see if many people like it enough to buy it in sufficient quantities to make it profitable.
 
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It's funny that when Apple releases a product and it has defects or does not work as expected they are ridiculed for not taking more time in making a better product. I am very impressed that Apple had the courage to scrap a project they publically acknowledged existed but knew they could not create the product to a high standard expected for an Apple product. I appreciate them not putting out the product that would underperform. THANK YOU APPLE>
 
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