Mophie Working on AirPower Replacement Able to Wirelessly Charge Multiple Devices Regardless of Position

[aandre]

Lol good luck. If Apple couldn't do it with the best and brightest engineers in the world and a nearly infinite R&D budget, these guys can't either... That being said, if they did pull it off (and that might just be the biggest "if" ever proposed in human history) then it would sure make Apple look foolish. I mean how embarrassing if they couldn't do it but some third-party accessory maker DID??

Mophie has a history developing charging accessories. That's all they do. And they've been doing it for at least 15 years. Remember what Bernard Arnault said when Steve Jobs asked him for advice on retail.

 

[RecentlyConverted]

Lol good luck. If Apple couldn't do it with the best and brightest engineers in the world and a nearly infinite R&D budget, these guys can't either... That being said, if they did pull it off (and that might just be the biggest "if" ever proposed in human history) then it would sure make Apple look foolish. I mean how embarrassing if they couldn't do it but some third-party accessory maker DID??

Plenty of small companies do what Apple can’t or didn’t do. Why do you think they buy so many companies?

 

[Rudi T]

Do they have to make these things flat or could they make them bowl shaped maybe better and look nicer ?

 

[brinary001]

You could also make a similar argument on project Titan, Apple’s failed attempt at self driving cars. Surely if Apple can’t do it then no one can right...oh wait, Tesla did it because they know what they are focused on, cars. Apple is a computer and software company. They are not a car company or an expert in wireless charging.

There's no evidence Project Titan has been killed. Or evidence that it ever even existed for that matter.
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How are they going to charge the proprietary watch? oh, they won’t. Just CES attention seeking.

Haha yeah that's what I thought too. Seemed like they just wanted an attention-grabbing headline to get people talking about them. And yeah there's no way they can incorporate the same "drop it anywhere and it'll charge" type of functionality for the watch. It'll need its own dedicated puck which kinda defeats the purpose altogether :/
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lol. There are a lot of things that Apple is not capable of doing, while others can.

Yeah but this...ain't it
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No third party could do this because they don’t have full access to iOS WatchOS and AirPod firmware.
Apple weren’t proposing a place anywhere charging pad. They wanted it to detect WHAT was being charged and pass all that information to the iPhones display, They wanted it to meet a set power efficiency limit.

Yup. Thank you. I knew this but failed to articulate it in my original comment. You're right, without access that Apple will never in a million years grant them, it could never be the same vision unfortunately.
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Mophie has a history developing charging accessories. That's all they do. And they've been doing it for at least 15 years. Remember what Bernard Arnault said when Steve Jobs asked him for advice on retail.

Actually no I don't! What did he say?
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Plenty of small companies do what Apple can’t or didn’t do. Why do you think they buy so many companies?

Your reply has made the most sense of all of them. I did not think about that. I suppose if we hear about Apple acquiring Mophie, we can assume they made some kind of a breakthrough? I'm not holding my breath personally, but it's possible!

 

[sidewinder3000]

Lol good luck. If Apple couldn't do it with the best and brightest engineers in the world and a nearly infinite R&D budget, these guys can't either... That being said, if they did pull it off (and that might just be the biggest "if" ever proposed in human history) then it would sure make Apple look foolish. I mean how embarrassing if they couldn't do it but some third-party accessory maker DID??

I agree that if Apple couldn’t do it a few years ago, nobody could. But tech advances so rapidly, I wouldn’t be surprised if someone was able to achieve what Apple was striving for 3 years later. And it won’t be embarrassing. It will be inevitable.
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I’d say that’s like the last reason why the Airpower was ‘killed’. It was reportedly rumored multiple times that Apple was having issues during the R&D phase with the Airpower with overlapping/overheating coils. If that was true, then they couldn’t successfully manufacture the Airpower for what it was originally intended to be in the first place. There’s no doubt there is a huge market for wireless chargers, now that smart phones are boasting this as a feature.

Another sticking point was that the only way to prevent the heating up was to make it too thick for Apple’s design aesthetic standards.

 

[Pakaku]

Do they have to make these things flat or could they make them bowl shaped maybe better and look nicer ?

I'd assume it needs to be flat in order for the devices to not slide around or fall off, and I'd assume the charging coils work best when flat

Beyond that, aesthetics are just how they wrap the charging coils up

 

[IlluminatedSage]

much ado about hype PR from Mophie. Courant already makes this, it’s premium, but awesome

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[zonemster]

I’m going to let everyone here on a little secret, apple AirPower mat worked just fine with iPhone or AirPods, you could place them anywhere and anyhow, and it worked just fine, the problem was with the watch, when charging it was setting off secondary coils, next to the device, which in fact made the mat heat up more then usual, and after extensive tests these stoped working in a proper way. However, the project is not scraped, as a matter of fact, there are extensive tastings on a new way of achieving this, plus 2021 most likely will bring in long range wireless charging, be patient.

 

[Tech198]

If this thing is limited, then Apple users will be snuffed. What's the point of other companies if they will head in the same limited direction as Apple?

 

[Jeaz]

I've got a charging pad from Hard Cider Labs that has overlapping coils and you can place your phone pretty much anywhere on it, like the AirPower was planned to. So it can definitely be done.

 

[Tech198]

aka.. charge iphone, Android phone on the same mat.

 

[PostApple2016BrainWash]

The real AirPower will charge your iPhone wirelessly over the air.

 

[podlasek]

Does anyone really know WHY Apple pulled the plug? Rumors swirled about overlapping coils, etc.. But was there something else?

Maybe Apple was trying to do more than just a mat charger for multiple devices? Higher power, fast charger

Or did they come to the conclusion that there really wasn't anything that would differentiate the product from the rest of the market and relegate it to the bit bucket?

We may never know unless some exiting engineer talks about it in some future interview?

 

[4487549]

Lol good luck. If Apple couldn't do it with the best and brightest engineers in the world and a nearly infinite R&D budget, these guys can't either... That being said, if they did pull it off (and that might just be the biggest "if" ever proposed in human history) then it would sure make Apple look foolish. I mean how embarrassing if they couldn't do it but some third-party accessory maker DID??

I have a bunch of dongles that say otherwise.