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Apple Officially Cancels AirPower
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Yeah no. You haven't. You've seen frauds that pretend.
Probably a great amount. Software team had to code everything into iOS and hardware team has been working on this for probably 2 years and it’s all scrapped. Very recently too as many publications said it’s in production. Hell it even shows on airpod 2 boxes, although those also say 2018 on them.
This is a clever way to do it.
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I was looking forward to this like crazy, this is one of the first times i've been this pissed at Apple. C'mon tim, at least an alternative or recommendation!!!!!
Not to get all conspiracy theorist on this, but TechCrunch is the only news outlet reporting this and they are reporting that Apple made the announcement through email sent to THEM. That seems like a really strange way for Apple to announce this.
The difference between Apple and Samsung is that Samsung actually shipped products that explode to their customers.
Shows how much you or the average poster knows. Those AirPods boxes were manufactured as far back as September. Newer ones have no such picture or reference.
Hahahahahaha this is seriously hilarious. Now we can officially stop bringing this damn topic up. I'm so happy with my Nomad Base Station Apple Watch Edition.
Negative. This is an embarrassment for them. They aren’t going to just let that sit all weekend for a “joke”
Meh, I guess something like that makes sense. I am not a big fan of the design of it though.
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That's if you make assumptions about what they actually said...
"After much effort, we've concluded AirPower will not achieve our high standards and we have cancelled the project."
"high standards" is so nebulous as to be meaningless. It could mean anything from a technical aspect to their inability to contract with a vendor to produce them at their price point.
This is Qi charger we're talking about... not exactly rocket-science.
The majority of the people here don’t actually seemed to understand that AirPower was not a charging mat that only has three stationery coils, each for one product to be placed specifically at where the coil is. You were supposed to be able to charge it no matter which part of the Airpower mat you placed your device on.
Not really. Would you want this blasted all over to all media sites? There’s a reason they dump it on Friday. It’s out of the news on Monday. Classic PR tactic.
It's just a freaking charging matt!! Which isn't essential for ANYTHING! And lol to everyone, who is talking about returning Airpods 2 because of that. 