iPhone XS and XS Max User Guides Reference AirPower, Suggesting Apple Still Plans to Release It

[Tech198]

"It's not clear why Apple left the reference to the AirPower in the iPhone XS and XS Max manuals, but it perhaps suggests that the company planned to ship the charging accessory alongside the new iPhones."

Maybe Apple ran into technical issues only *after* the manual was printed and no one told them to change/too late?

That would be acceptable... Tim :"This is all too hard..lets just ship the bloody things off", but still if attention to detail was needed.....

 

[FFR]

I think people are missing the point. Without a wirelss mat of Apples's design they will REMOVE wireless charging as it stands now in the next iteration of iPhones.

Then re-introduce it when they get their act together with their own version (not compatable with anything else)

Ok so your claiming that Apple will remove wireless charging next year...sure they will.


I think your thinking about Samsung, when they removed the sd card on the s6 and put it back in the s7.

 

[rikscha]

Ready to shell out £199 for something I don’t need that much.

 

[username:]

AirPower has dissipated into Vapor!

 

[femike]

This is quite sloppy on Apple's part. Departmental managers are not communicating with each other. Even if bad timing results in this, cutting it this fine should not be allowed. I think it is yet another sign of Apple's change in management in general.

 

[44267547]

The Fact that Apple removed the Airpower from their website says just about everything you need to know. There is no certain future right now if it will ever be reintroduced or not. Apple likely doesn’t even know what’s going to happen, unless they are certain it won’t be a future Apple product. Lesson learned, they announced it _way_ too early for something that was not deemed thoroughly tested through the engineering process.

 

[recoil80]

All it suggests to me is that the manual was printed before the decision to delay or cancel it was made.

I think is not cancelled and they're going to release it. Maybe not in 2018 but in early 2019.
Even if the manual was printed before the keynote it didn't happen months ago. I think they didn't mention AirPower on stage because it would have been embarrassing to talk about it after exactly one year and don't have a precise release date to announce. They don't need to talk about it anymore on stage, even during an October event. A press release will be more than enough, so I guess we won't hear about AirPower as long as it isn't ready to ship

 

[djcerla]

Years on a Apple rumors site and still people don’t understand Apple’s modus operandi.

Of course Apple will release the AirPower and of course they would have destroyed all the boxes with its name and printed new one if the product was scrapped.

 

[gelie]

Does anyone know if the new Xs/Xs Max supports 10 Watt wireless charging?

 

[MoreRumors?]

All it suggests to me is that the manual was printed before the decision to delay or cancel it was made.

Yeah, and since Apple wants to be green it would be a waste to throw them away anyway. Maybe they will revise after the existing supply of user guides are exhausted.

I think it is just a matter of time when Apple solve the problem with the AirPower. They will expect the AirPower to be a big seller for them and don't want to be left out and to see other companies make money off their products.

 

[ghost187]

Remember initially there were rumors that Apple will have a truly wireless charger that charges from 30 feet!

I obviously didn’t believe it but it was posted so many times that I had my hopes up, now this AirPower isn’t even being released

 

[skycorgan]

The thing that sticks out to me here is the fact they treat wireless charging as the default method. Using a lightning cable is an afterthought in the statement.

Preparing everyone subliminally for the portless iPhone 11 in which everything will connect and charge wirelessly. Probably why they didn’t bother upgrading the charging bricks to USB C this year, there will probably be a basic wireless charger in the box next year to charge your now port free iPhone.

 

[joelhinch]

What will be telling is, if the manuals in 4-6 weeks time (new shipments/prints) or the XR's manual, are still the same.

 

[TheShadowKnows!]

You missed the small print!

It says:
"This page was left intentionally non-blank"
/s

 

[max.ine]

The thing that sticks out to me here is the fact they treat wireless charging as the default method. Using a lightning cable is an afterthought in the statement.

Preparing everyone subliminally for the portless iPhone 11 in which everything will connect and charge wirelessly. Probably why they didn’t bother upgrading the charging bricks to USB C this year, there will probably be a basic wireless charger in the box next year to charge your now port free iPhone.

100% agree. This sounds like a non-S year thing.

 

[code-m]

The manuals alone don’t prove anything to me, but Apple updating the AirPower management code in the 12.1 beta does. Why touch the coding in a beta if you want to just forget about the product? Why not just remove the code about it entirely?

I don’t believe they’ve completely washed their hands on this product yet.

It’s seems Apple engineers ran into some challenges and will be unable to meet the 2018 scheduled release, hence by removing mention on its website their can release when ready. I believe their were hopeful and prematurely announced a release, by removing mention on the site people will not hassle them on a specific date, i.e. iMac Pro that was released at the 11th hour.

 

[Smartass]

So you buy a phone for more than 1000$, and Apple doesnt even bother in replacing the user guide with apropriate version? apple was known for paying attention to the smallest details, this only proves how that has changed in recent years.

 

[scrapesleon]

I’m not going to buy the AirPower even if it does see the light of day had too many problems and delay

 

[coolkid93]

Honestly if it does or doesn’t I can careless anymore about it honestly. A lot of other options out there

 

[scottinlexky]

enjoy your new phones, my 6s is still chugging along as I invest that $1200 into my mutual funds. I'll grab one of these next cycle.

 

[konqerror]

Never mind, got manuals confused

 

[Analog Kid]

24 coils is a basic engineering problem

I don’t think I’d call it basic... Most antenna arrays are designed as electric far field, not magnetic near field. Complex near fields are notoriously hard to model.

 

[cmaier]

I don’t think I’d call it basic... Most antenna arrays are designed as electric far field, not magnetic near field. Complex near fields are notoriously hard to model.

By basic I meant “well known and understood,” not “easy to solve.”

 

[Analog Kid]

By basic I meant “well known and understood,” not “easy to solve.”

I don't disagree with your definition, but I don't think they're really that different in practice.

Maxwell's equations are well known, however I'd say they aren't "well understood" in this situation. Any analysis of complex geometries in the near field require numerical methods to solve and involve 4th and 6th order terms so they shift radically with only small changes in geometry-- which I'd argue means they defy intuition especially in a dynamic environment (multiple devices randomly placed in the field).

The definition I'd use of a "basic engineering problem" is one where the steps to completion are well defined to the point that a schedule can be created. In this case there are neither good tools for insight nor knowledgable engineers capable of putting that kind of schedule together-- so I'd say this is still research.

I suppose we could continue arguing what "basic" or "understood" means, or where the line is between research and engineering problems, but my point was that Apple has both the means and the motivation to solve what I'd consider a "basic engineering problem". If they can't figure it out after a year, then it's obvious they didn't know what steps to take to complete the design which means they moved it from lab to keynote before the research was done.

It happens.

 

[WatchFromAfar]

Ok so your claiming that Apple will remove wireless charging next year...sure they will.


I think your thinking about Samsung, when they removed the sd card on the s6 and put it back in the s7.

Yes, yes I am.