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
Apple Cancels AirPower Product
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#32The 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.
It’s not weird at all.
AirPower is a feature that helps sell those AirPods amongst early adopters who would buy AirPods within the first couple of weeks.
If you want to kill AirPower, waiting a bit to grab those sales makes sense. You don’t have much to lose and revenue to gain.
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#33Instead 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’t pre announce stuff, under promise and over deliver? I just hope they don’t also cancel whatever it is they are doing with the Mac Pro.
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#34Should Apple stop announcing products before they're sure they can ship them?
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#35It 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…
The new AirPods can be charged on Qi chargers, that are available on Amazon for $10. No one bought wireless charging AirPods because of AirPower.
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#36Will these devices charge on a normal Qi charging pad?
Not the apple watch. That was the draw of it.
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#37Are there any official announcements about this? It seems odd for Apple’s leadership team to make statements about unreleased products to reporters like that without any other context.
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#38It 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'd be a slimier move to release a $200 charging pad that doesn't work well.
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#39For anyone interested in the challenges of true wireless charging (i.e., actual wireless, not induction-based), I highly recommend this blog from Paul Reynolds, who formerly led engineering at ubeam: https://liesandstartuppr.blogspot.com
Could you explain how charging without cables, via induction, is not wireless? I can't click that link at work (uncategorized by proxy).
When most people think "wireless", they probably associate it with things like wireless phones, wireless headphones, wireless speakers, etc. Things that can be carried around freely and their usability isn't restricted by not being connected to a wire.
Imagine if to use "wireless" headphones, you had to hold them within 1 cm of an induction loop that transmitted the audio, otherwise they just played static. I wouldn't really consider those to be wireless in the same sense as a set of AirPods.
At least that's the impression I got when I read "true wireless" in GP's comment.
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#40From the article: “This is a very, very rare public mis-step for Apple.” Not a mis-step at all.