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Bad News regarding AirPower
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Not only does it charge your phone, it also makes espresso! Meet, the iSpresso!
Sad but they gotta keep positivity flowing if possible to keep they Trillion dollar status.
Im not interested in the air power pad, however i would like a wireless charging case for the airpods
But when they released it, it worked fine. Is there some reason it had to be announced on a certain day? Could they not have waited and announced it when things were more certain and still released it when they did?
What if Apple just created 3 separate stands or tables for 3 devices rather than a single surface area to charge 3 things at once? That would make it easier to implement.
And is already done. My understanding is that they want you to be able to put stuff down freeform.
Because Apple wants you to be able to put any three devices which all can be an iPhone, Apple Watch and AirPods case anywhere on the mat, which is something that hasn't been done before by any manufacturer (and for good reason). In some leaks about the AirPower development that surfaced earlier this year, it was said that Apple had to incorporate more than 20 different charging coils into the interior of he AirPower case, all somehow cleverly intermingled so that every area is covered for both the iPhones (which use Qi) and the Apple Watches (which have their own proprietary charging method) as opposed to the 1-2 charging coils that most Qi chargers have. If other manufacturers have done something similar, then point me to another wireless charger that has >20 (or even just >10) charging coils inside please.
Now Apple can do a lot, but they can't make products that don't obey physics, even if the thinness of many of their products suggest that they would love to. Wireless chargers do by nature create a lot of heat – if you look through what problems people have with bad Qi chargers, one of the most common complaints is that they get too hot, which can not just become uncomfortable (since you still need to be able to touch the mat and pick up the device) but potentially also a dangerous and a fire hazard.
Now with AirPower, not all of the >20 charging coils would have been used all the time, the idea was that the AirPower mat cleverly detects on which areas of the mat a device is placed and to provide current to only those coils that are below the coil of the respective device. But even then, that might require a lot of these coils to be active at a time when you place three different devices on it. Chances are Apple just underestimated the heat generation or overestimated their solutions of heat dissipation and had already most of the device finished outside of that; but when they realized that they couldn't really get a hold of these issues during their months of testing, they had to pull it (at least for now, in the worst case forever).
The reason why Apple doesn't like to talk about it at all (and won't even confirm the abandonment of the product, which you'd expect they would do eventually if they can't get it out at all) is that they might not really know themselves where to go with it. They have put R&D resources into it for more than a year now and acquired (at least) one other company to get this done, so abandoning the project would make all that wasted and might make Apple miss out on what could otherwise be a lucrative new market. So chances are Apple doesn't want to abandon it. But they probably also don't have a working product right now, and might have to go far back in the development process to find solutions to these issues (maybe make the mat significantly thicker than intended to provide room for more cooling solutions?), but that means a release sometime in 2019 at the earliest.
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They're certainly the richest company, with more R&D money at their disposal, guilty of this.
I don’t think that’s the point. Apple marketed a product far too early during the September 2017 Keynote stated from Phil Schiller “To look for it in 2018” and then had _no_ information about it whatsoever or promotion/marketing after that. Now that the Airpower has been completely removed from their website, there’s basically no history that It will ever exist again. Point is, if there was R&D that still needed to be concluded, perhaps they needed to wait it somewhat longer either ensure this product was ready to be announced or not at all. I don’t believe Apple owes any one an explanation to anybody about the Airpower, but clearly this product was not ready for the market based on technical specifications/difficulties.
I wasn't really interested in it anyway.
The 'flat' design didn't appeal & I have no plans to buy a watch.
All I need is one iPhone wireless charge stand for overnight charging (doesn't even need to be fast charge...in fact, I'm concerned about fast-chargers damaging the battery, so would prefer standard charge).
The 'flat' design didn't appeal & I have no plans to buy a watch.
All I need is one iPhone wireless charge stand for overnight charging (doesn't even need to be fast charge...in fact, I'm concerned about fast-chargers damaging the battery, so would prefer standard charge).