IKEA are clearly mocking Apple's late adoption of wireless charging, just like they were mocking those cringe worthy Apple promo videos with Ive talking to a non-existent person to his right, when they made their IKEA paper manual video. Of course they are well aware that the followers will queue up to buy the "Apple inspired" charging products.
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IKEA Launches New Apple-Inspired Ad Campaign for Qi Charging Furniture
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IKEA are clearly mocking Apple's late adoption of wireless charging, just like they were mocking those cringe worthy Apple promo videos with Ive talking to a non-existent person to his right, when they made their IKEA paper manual video. Of course they are well aware that the followers will queue up to buy the "Apple inspired" charging products.
not meaning to break up the ever present android/apple bashing, but um... has anyone tried to buy the lamp today? I was interested in the one with the shade and it seems to not only be sold out, but not available on line, and IKEA's web site says inventory is out and may not be replenished.. LOL..
so yeah, good marketing IKEA. get me interested in a product I can't buy.
Oh wait, they should have called it iLamp X
It's possible these products were made in limited amounts, to test demand. IKEA likely had no idea Apple were introducing a Qi enabled iPhone and sales of these pieces have soared. Don't think it'll take IKEA long to replenish stocks though, they'll want to take advantage of this massive influx of wireless charging devices.
[doublepost=1506108552][/doublepost]A thought I just had: has the Apple Watch always been Qi compliant?
Hmm, nope. Android Pay launched about a year after Apple Pay.
It's still hilarious to me that people accuse Apple of copying others, while Google and Samsung named their competing payment services "Android Pay" and "Samsung Pay".
As a swede I clearly have no problem with "Scandinavian modern". I don't like the "use & then dump"-quality of many of ikeas products. On the cheap LED lamps you can't even replace the bulb, just throw away the whole lamp when it stops working! (I know the LED bulbs have a long lifespan, but the cheap build and low quality of the buttons will kill it early anyway.)
All manufacturers should really build better stuff, but I know that's not what builds "growth" for the economy...
Clever ads, though. ACNE knows their craft.
All manufacturers should really build better stuff, but I know that's not what builds "growth" for the economy...
Clever ads, though. ACNE knows their craft.
You're right! But we need five million different emojis, a force touch that is impossible to use, a personal assistant that can't get anything right, and a million other gimmicks nobody over the age of 25 uses. But focusing on charging, something you do every single day is a huge waist of effort!!!!
As usual, Apple often isn't the first with new technology, but often is the one that makes it really attractive and mainstream.
IKEA did a great job with this ad promotion. One thing about IKEA furniture I like is that anyone (students, low income families, etc.) can get decent looking new furniture for cheap instead of having to buy old, ugly, stinky, used stuff as their only option.
IKEA did a great job with this ad promotion. One thing about IKEA furniture I like is that anyone (students, low income families, etc.) can get decent looking new furniture for cheap instead of having to buy old, ugly, stinky, used stuff as their only option.
Woops my bad. It was called google wallet before and did all what apple pay did. Google wallet came out in 2011. Long before apple pay. So yes, Apple copied Google.
Apple Pay does more than Google Wallet since it uses tokenization instead of storing and using your actual credit card number.
I hope that gives a boost to Qi. My 2013 Nexus 5 has it, and I love it. However, very few cost effective phones have Qi. And I wonder why, because the technology is rather cheap and simple.
With Apple supporting Qi I hope that many of the around $200 phones will jump on it.
At least the Watch 1 Charger charges the Moto360 watch which is Qi compliant.
https://www.reddit.com/r/moto360/comments/33uvp1/apple_watch_charger_works_with_moto_360_but_not/
Good lord. Samsung has been doing wireless for a while now. How much did Apple Pay IKEA for this nonsense?
It's just an evolution of names. Currently they're all copying each other, in order that there is a common nomenclature for consumers to understand.
For example, Google came out with "Google Wallet", Samsung came out with "Samsung Wallet"... then Apple came out with their own "Apple Wallet". Should Apple have avoided using the same term? Of course not.
As for "Pay", there have been plenty of previous electronic payment trademarks with "Pay" as part of their name. Heck, "Loop Pay" (the magnetic swipe mode that Samsung bought) is just one example of a "Pay" name that was publicly used before "Apple Pay". Should Apple have avoided using "Pay" simply because it had been used before? Of course not.
Even the old Google Wallet used a virtual (token) card number instead of your real card number.
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IKEA have had wireless charging enabled furniture for like a year. It's just they have a wider audience for it now.
I am seeing a similar situation in Singapore. My local idea store lists all the wireless chargers as “out of stock”.
They have had them for sale for at least a couple of years now, these are not new products in their inventory.
They also have standalone NORDMÄRKE Qi pads for $20 apiece, or $60 for one that has 3 charging targets.