Could it be that they may have found a unfixable serious bug (maybe in some extreme corner cases)?
Apple Cancels AirPower Product
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#192Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Yea turning everything into a subscription is the hot stuff now, even if it makes no sense to be a subscription. My git client, password manager, have all become subscriptions! Why??
yeah, I'm never paying monthly for my password manager. Thankfully 1Password let me roll back, but I need to find a new way forward at some point.
The funny thing is I'd probably be fine paying more every year or so than I would with a monthly fee.
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#193It 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…
No matter what Apple does, people will be pissed off at something . Contrary to your point: A. They announced the cancellation a week later, you still have time to return your AirPods 2. B. If they had gone with substandard product, then you will still complain, why didn't Apple cancel this product a long time ago!? Why did they release this piece of shit? We will have #AirPowerGate storm on Twitter, armchair special…
Announce cancellation of AirPower before selling a new product that would have used it, rather than after.
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#194The whole AirPower saga is a weird event in product development. AirPower compatibility was highlighted as a feature in the packaging of the just-released AirPods 2 : https://twitter.com/itsnicolenguyen/status/11106569269650636... There has to be something that caused this abrupt cancellation.
You are assuming that Apple has great cross-team communication. By many reports, they do not: I've heard that one team does not know what another team is working on, much less the status of that project.
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#195It 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…
Apple has a 1-week (or is it 2 weeks?) unconditional return policy. It actually disservices them to announce it after since they may now get a bunch of open box returns. Additionally your edit doesn’t hold because apple sells iPhones without an official wireless charger either. The AirPods can also be charged with a wire, not to mention any compatible qi charger. If you’re going to call out apple for making the charg…
Apple has much less consumer friendly return policies in many non-US markets. Take Hong Kong for example: "All products purchased at Apple Store in Hong Kong cannot be returned or exchanged. Exceptions for exchange will be allowed for defective products only." https://www.apple.com/hk/shop/help/exchange_return
I'd have a hard time arguing that the AirPods are defective because the non-bundled mat on the box didn't ship.
Re: Apple Cancels AirPower Product
#196It 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…
Apple has a 1-week (or is it 2 weeks?) unconditional return policy. It actually disservices them to announce it after since they may now get a bunch of open box returns. Additionally your edit doesn’t hold because apple sells iPhones without an official wireless charger either. The AirPods can also be charged with a wire, not to mention any compatible qi charger. If you’re going to call out apple for making the charg…
> Apple has a 1-week (or is it 2 weeks?) unconditional return policy. It actually disservices them to announce it after since they may now get a bunch of open box returns.
Yeah, but how many people are actually going to go through the hassle of returning them?
Re: Apple Cancels AirPower Product
#197It 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…
It is a slimy move to wait a week after the wireless charging Airpods were released before announcing this.
Slimey? Really? Slimey is opening a factory along side a river and then dumping the waste chemicals in the river while touting the number of jobs added to the local economy.
In Apple's case, they announced a product early, turns out they couldn't deliver on it. No harm, no foul... okay maybe reputational foul, but nothing of real consequence.
The lather the Apple tech pundit crowd has worked itself up over the Airpower nonsense (you can't call it anything more than that at this point) is bewildering. If Apple would have delivered I probably would have bought it, my stuff still charges the legacy way, I'll probably buy more Apple stuff in the future, the world moves on.
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#198What 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?
Apple charging mat was unique because it allowed multiple devices with arbitrary placement. I did not see any other similar charging mats. I'm using Xiaomi charger and it's barely producing any heat with iPhone 8, definitely not something that could run into overheating issues.
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#199Will they cancel the Macbook Pro?
No, they'll continue beta testing new versions of the same junk on people willing to spend $2K for the privilege. Keeping my 2014 until they figure it all out.
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#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I know that they had issues with the 2016 and 2017 models. I owned one.
But those issues were fixed in the 2018 one. Which is why they haven't needed to extend the warranty at all.