Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Apple Cancels AirPower Product

techcrunch.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

261–270 of 500 posts

Re: Apple Cancels AirPower Product

#261

Post by ctdonath »

ksec wrote: post #202
minimaxir wrote: post #2

The 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.

>There has to be something that caused this abrupt cancellation. They could have sold a Wireless Charger just like others with their mark up. Instead we got nothing. Also admitting MacBook Pro Keyboard Failure. I believe there is something happening to Hardware Engineering in general.

Were it "just like others with their markup", why would people pay more for the same thing?

Re: Apple Cancels AirPower Product

#262

Post by scarejunba »

tambourine_man wrote: post #33

Instead of reliable WiFi routers and induction chargers, Mac Pros and you know, laptop keyboards that you can actually type on… We get a credit card, news and streaming service that no one wants or understands. I really don’t get Apple's priorities recently. Which is a shame, since few companies step to the chalange of serving the expensive high quality tech stuff market. And what happened to the company that wouldn’…

No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.

Re: Apple Cancels AirPower Product

#263

Post by beager »

Sounds like a production issue to me, and they're taking an opportunity to throw shade on the existing induction-charge market in anticipation of fixing issues and launching something bigger later.

"Doesn't meet our standards" sounds like "we have something vastly superior to Qi charging but it isn't quite ready yet" which will get eaten up by Apple stans.

Re: Apple Cancels AirPower Product

#265

Post by urda »

GeekyBear wrote: post #67

Apparently, even the Chinese supply chain thought this product was going to go into production, according to Ming-Chi Kuo, whose sources inside Apple's supply chain are impeccable. However, good for Apple. They need to be more willing to say this product isn't good enough, and stop listening to those who say they are too secretive. They had a good thing going when they didn't comment on products under development (or…

Agreed. I much rather have a company like Apple just flat out say "we can't make this work to our standards, to our customer standards, and we're not comfortable with releasing this product this way."

Versus say Google who'll just never mention it again or launch a broken version only to kill it off within two years.

Re: Apple Cancels AirPower Product

#266

Post by hinkley »

tomatotomato37 wrote: post #31

Why does this thing need to be so thin you have to cancel it over heating issues!? It's the perfect shape and size to mount a heat sink on the bottom; no one's going to give up apple products forever because there's an extra centimeter of aluminum on the bottom of their phone charger

Where are you moving the heat by putting aluminum on the bottom? Into the surface it's on? That won't be very conductive.

Also heat issues with a power supply means losses. Thermodynamics might be keeping them from hitting numbers they wanted to reach. It's quite easy for an executive with some clout and bad listening skills to insist on a feature set that violates the laws of physics. I've worked on a few of those projects.

Re: Apple Cancels AirPower Product

#269

Post by hinkley »

jandrese wrote: post #72
sgjohnson wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All the Apple devices that support wireless charging use Qi.

Well, they kind of have to since it's the only standard that that has products you can actually buy. It's great that they avoided fragmenting the market. Even if AirPower was great at this point it's way late to the market, and compatibility would be a constant headache for years. I'm ok with Apple throwing in the towel here and just using the damn standard.

Apple can show up late to a market and steal market share. Or at least they used to know how to do that...

Re: Apple Cancels AirPower Product

#270

Post by [deleted] »

brandur wrote: post #131
bangonkeyboard wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The new AirPods boxes were printed in 2018: https://twitter.com/horwitz/status/1110977803183374341

But even if we take copyright year to be the same as the printing year, Apple would almost certainly have just made a new box if they'd known well in advance they were going to cancel AirPower. This still shows an unusual level of disorganization on their part, which is surprising enough that I'm willing to believe a sudden decision was made. There's a good chance that we'll see this somewhat proven in that Apple wil…

[deleted]
Post reply on HN