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Apple Cancels AirPower Product

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Post by hombre_fatal »

ihuman wrote: post #113
griffordson wrote: post #105

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I would love to have something that competes with YouTube TV but respects privacy and doesn't funnel even more data to Google. The other live TV services all have absurdly arbitrary DVR limits. Not that Apple's streaming service will compete with YouTube TV, but I wish it would. Also, YouTube TV doesn't work all that great on Apple TV and I'd hope Apple could get that right too.

If you want to watch live TV without tracking for a one-time cost (but with no DVR), you could just get an OTA tv receiver and antenna.

Need to do more than that: https://www.consumerreports.org/privacy/how-to-turn-off-smar...

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Post by [deleted] »

Cyph0n wrote: post #167
bdcravens wrote: post #140

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Can't speak to what's available in your country, but I've never had issues returning opened stuff (Best Buy, Microcenter, etc) as long as it's in new condition and in the original box, with receipt (most stores have a 14 day return period)

Heh, that’s almost unheard of in the Middle East for example. You have to fight tooth and nail to even get basic warranty. Not sure about the rest of the world, but I would say that the US is an outlier when it comes to return policies.

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Post by threeseed »

Hamuko wrote: post #121
Bud wrote: post #114

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But not on purpose. In this case, after a sustained engineering effort, Apple finally and reluctantly concluded that they could not build this particular product up to their standard, so they decided to just not build it at all, instead. We should applaud that. That's how things should work.

>But not on purpose. You could argue that after three models with butterfly keyboards, it's pretty purposeful. It's not like no one pointed it out to them.

I had a 2016 MacBook Pro which absolutely had a lot of issues with the butterfly keyboard. It was clearly a bad product. But they definitely fixed the issues with the 2018 one.

There definitely isn't the same level of complains on the internet about it.

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Post by Hamuko »

threeseed wrote: post #177
Hamuko wrote: post #49

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That's nothing for Apple. They have released $2000 laptops that don't work well.

My 2018 MacBook Pro works great. No issues with the hardware at all and I love the TouchBar. What exactly is wrong with them ?

The keyboards. My 2016 MacBook Pro has had issues with several of the keys.

Apple has extended the warranty on the keyboard to four years, but it's not like they will actually give you a working keyboard design, but rather switch out the keyboard for the same design.

They're also being sued for the keyboard issues.

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Post by dwighttk »

beams_of_light wrote: post #155
fetus8 wrote: post #47

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I mean, it's abundantly clear where their priorities are right now...and that's Services. I suppose Services make more money and please the stockholders, but damn if it ain't disappointing to their user-base.

Everyone's trying to get away from their niches, and into anything involving MRR or ad revenue with software & services. It's a sad state of affairs.

after a while it's hard to grow your niche... gotta jump into some other place you think you can grow... like cancer.

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Post by FabHK »

deepakhj wrote: post #92
slg wrote: post #4

It is a slimy move to wait a week after the wireless charging Airpods were released before announcing this. You can't tell me that Apple didn't know this was coming. What percentage of people who have bought new Airpods in the last week wouldn't have made that purchase if they knew AirPower was never going to be released? EDIT: Several people are responding that other manufactures make wireless chargers, so what is t…

14 day return policy.

Depending on jurisdiction. In Hong Kong (probably because of scalpers that sold to gray market in China etc.) there used to be a 30% restocking fee, and now no returns whatsoever, full stop.

Re: Apple Cancels AirPower Product

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Post by Hamuko »

gfosco wrote: post #179
Hamuko wrote: post #156

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How many people are very few people? There's 35,000 signatures on a petition to recall the keyboards. There's two class-action lawsuits. There's how many different online writings about the issue?

You can get signatures and file suits for almost anything, that's pretty meaningless. If it wasn't an insignificant percentage, they would've done something about it.

So your basis for the "very few people" is Apple's inaction?

Re: Apple Cancels AirPower Product

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Post by int_19h »

mikestew wrote: post #84
tunesmith wrote: post #57

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What's the downside of Qi chargers? (Assuming they didn't figure out some hardware problem that Apple couldn't figure out.)

I'll state up front that my experience with Qi is from about five years ago with a Samsung Note 3 with a Samsung induction charging case. But I found it to be fiddly enough (have to hit the sweet spot on between the charger and the coils on the case/phone) to be just barely more convenient than plugging in. My impression of what AirPower was supposed to do was allow me to just throw my shit on the nightstand charging…

I have the official wireless charging stand for Pixel 3, and FWIW, it doesn't seem to have problems charging it even if the phone is visibly tilted and off-center on the stand.

But perhaps that's exactly why it's a stand and not a mat - there are only so many ways to put a phone on it such that it stays there.

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Post by eappleby »

What is the implication for all the other wireless charging mats on the market? Are charging mats by other manufacturers smaller than the mat that Apple wanted to introduce so the other mats won't run into overheating issues, or is it likely that the other mats will also run into overheating issues, but their standards are lower than Apple's so they are ok with it?

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Post by vbezhenar »

chrischen wrote: post #169
notatoad wrote: post #101

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I'm guessing the unexpected hype was what caused the "cancellation", and AirPower isn't really any more cancelled than it was yesterday. I'm imagining some engineering teem at Apple telling their bosses "yeah, it's almost ready" and the bosses believing them without really caring, because it's just a silly accessory and no big deal, right? And then since the AirPods 2 announcemen, the internet has been rabid with ant…

Or maybe it was working but then yesterday one burst into flames during testing which was the final straw. They don’t want to pull a Samsungs now do they?

Why did they cancel the product rather than delay it? If they are cancelling the product, either the issues are unfixable and it means that something is very wrong with their engineering, because they are expected to understand whether the product is possible a little bit earlier than some months before production. Or managers are just acting impulsively which is as wrong.
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