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Report Claims AirPower 'Doomed to Failure' Unless Apple Can Resolve Multiple Ongoing Engineering Issues
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and by 100% reliable you mean a non-apple cable
In my house, it's the 3rd party cables that fail and it's the Apple cables that endure.
Maybe its issues with the wireless AirPod cases too and there was no point to pushing ahead. Or how would they get the Apple Watch to sit on the pad too?
How are they handling it wrong?
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Some bands it'd be fine but with bands like the Mailanese Loop, you can't open it up to lay it flat. You'd have to unhook the band from the watch itself each time.
Well, you could all have bought a 3 port Qi charger at IKEA years ago for a fraction of Apples price 
https://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/10308315/
It also contains a usb output so you can charge your iPad by cable at the same time as 3 Qi devices are charging.
https://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/10308315/
It also contains a usb output so you can charge your iPad by cable at the same time as 3 Qi devices are charging.
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It already saw the light of day. They announced it, that is part of the problem. Better that they didn't even show the video last year, but they wanted to keep people from buying other wireless chargers when they thought theirs would be ready. A year late and $150 short at this point.
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That doesn't work with the watch, nor do we have a wireless case for AirPods, but I've already bought third party chargers over waiting for this vaporware.Well, you could all have bought a 3 port Qi charger at IKEA years ago for a fraction of Apples price
https://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/10308315/
Well, you could all have bought a 3 port Qi charger at IKEA years ago for a fraction of Apples price
apple hasn't announced a price yet so you can't say if this is a 'fraction' of anything at this point
Even standard Qi chargers are about 85% efficient. Finer tuned chargers with higher wattages can get into the high 90s.
The iPhone was announced (and demo'd) while it still only worked for just a few minutes at a time, six months before it finally went on sale.
Of course, Jobs was also still around to kick butts
Qi Charging is not that high. Qi peaks at 65% efficiency. I know the article you are quoting and pulling that 90% number from. It isn't a practical reference for what people are getting for real-world results. Even Texas Instruments states that you need to supply 2A @ 5V to a Qi transmitter circuit to reliably charge a device wireless @ 1A 5V.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/qi-more-efficient-than-rezence,29501.html
http://www.ti.com/lit/ug/slvuaj7/slvuaj7.pdf
On page 15 they claim the circuit shouldn't pull more than 1.7A while supplying 1A to the load. That is a 58% efficiency and it is working as expected.
Apple like to announce new categories very early
They announced the first generation of iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, homepod and others way too early to 'block' competition. Only the first generation, then they go to regular (order next week /next month) cycle
This one clearly wasn't thought through
But...but...it’s September. Why not give Apple the benefit of the doubt over what unnamed sources are saying? I mean, wasn’t the Apple Watch Series 4 screen only supposed to be 15% larger than the Series 3 screen?
Huh? iPhone, they had working devices shown at the launch event. iPad there were working devices shown at the launch event. Apple watch there were devices shown at the launch/reveal event.
HomePod was shown to the press I believe in the hands-on area after the event, but AirPower has been absent in all physical forms
Now that wireless charging pads are the new "feature" on new lamps and clocks as well as the new freebie at trade shows I do not care about the Apple product. Sone everyone will have these chargers all over the house and car. Apple... don't bother... Airports were a better products to work on... bad call Apple management.
This exactly sums up the Apple I have learned to hate (will maybe hate is too strong, but none-the-less) its why Macs are screwed up (too small to house real power), its why the watch is now too big (tried to stuff too much into it and made it larger, when it was already too big), its why I went out and bought an SE in the last few days (phones are too large so they can release technology that is neat, but dubious). A charger is a charger, who cares, within reason, about how big it is.
What we have here is a failure to communicate, or a failure of common sense.
The problem with all this was the premature announcement.
It is OK if You experiment with new technology, put resources in it, and in the end, You admit that it fails.
This happened with Apple before, also with Steve Jobs.
The BIG issue is, that they designed the final look and already presented the product. You must not do that until You are a 100% sure, that it works.
This is another perfect example for Tim Cook as a failed CEO. HE doesn't have the strategic thinking. He could have been super secretive about wireless charging, and when the day comes: POW! Surprise! Everyone freaks out.
Instead, everybody is disappointed and things of Apple as a loser bozo company.
Tim Cook needs to know, who works for him, who is able to come up with a breakthrough. He needs to push people to the limit, freak out, fire a few, get furious, get them to compete each other. Instead, he sits down at a presentation at the design department, munches on his power bar and says: "Fine, lets push the release date a few months further, now, who wants to join me on a visit to a water slide park? Lets have fun!"
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Real innovation would be: I plug the phone to a cable and my 5% full battery gets to 90% within 60 seconds. That would be a breakthrough. The company is headless, heading to wrong directions...
It is OK if You experiment with new technology, put resources in it, and in the end, You admit that it fails.
This happened with Apple before, also with Steve Jobs.
The BIG issue is, that they designed the final look and already presented the product. You must not do that until You are a 100% sure, that it works.
This is another perfect example for Tim Cook as a failed CEO. HE doesn't have the strategic thinking. He could have been super secretive about wireless charging, and when the day comes: POW! Surprise! Everyone freaks out.
Instead, everybody is disappointed and things of Apple as a loser bozo company.
Tim Cook needs to know, who works for him, who is able to come up with a breakthrough. He needs to push people to the limit, freak out, fire a few, get furious, get them to compete each other. Instead, he sits down at a presentation at the design department, munches on his power bar and says: "Fine, lets push the release date a few months further, now, who wants to join me on a visit to a water slide park? Lets have fun!"
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Real innovation would be: I plug the phone to a cable and my 5% full battery gets to 90% within 60 seconds. That would be a breakthrough. The company is headless, heading to wrong directions...
Hardly. One product That never launches is _not_ the demise of Tim Cook and certainly does not deem him a failure, especially given the success of Apples growth over the last five or six years under his tenure. Not to mention, the Airpower may not have been a success as Apple intended to be, but you can’t Correlate a product to the magnitude of Tim Cook‘s Position as a CEO as a ‘failure’. Two things are not mutually exclusive in your argument.
