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Apple Cancels AirPower Product

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Re: Apple Cancels AirPower Product

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Post by penagwin »

Swizec wrote: post #22
unethical_ban wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you explain how charging without cables, via induction, is not wireless? I can't click that link at work (uncategorized by proxy).

It’s wireless but not touchless. Some (many?) people conflate “wireless” and “over-the-air” charging. You can do OTA charging but that’s a tesla coil and not very safe.

Induction doesn't require any contact what so ever. It works through cases, and will work even if you hold your device over the charger with air in between.

Now induction certainly has it's own set of compromises, orientation being a big one, not to mention many implementations don't have great ranges. But yes, induction itself is "contactless" and is OTA.

Re: Apple Cancels AirPower Product

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Post by deepakhj »

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.

Re: Apple Cancels AirPower Product

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Post by [deleted] »

sgjohnson wrote: post #42
Animats wrote: post #26

This is a good thing. There were three competing wireless charging schemes. They got together and agreed on Qi as the charging mat standard.[1] Then Apple had to go off in their own incompatible direction. This delayed charging mat deployment in hotels and such. With Apple's scheme out of the picture, everybody can go with Qi. [1] https://www.wirelesspowerconsortium.com/

All the Apple devices that support wireless charging use Qi.

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Re: Apple Cancels AirPower Product

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Post by FPGAhacker »

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.

I’m guessing patents.

Re: Apple Cancels AirPower Product

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Post by vbezhenar »

rjknight wrote: post #46
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…

On the other hand, announcing it now means that anyone who really would have changed their minds still can. Apple will almost certainly accept returns, even in countries which don't provide statutory rights to return unwanted goods within a certain time period. Announcing it a month from now, or later, would make such returns impossible. It does seem like this is the very latest date such an announcement could have b…

What do you mean by "Apple will accept returns"? There's no Apple Store in my country and I'm not sure that ordinary shops would accept returns, especially after box was opened.

Re: Apple Cancels AirPower Product

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Post by phinnaeus »

thamer wrote: post #35
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…

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.

> No one

I did. I don't want to add another cable to my nightstand, I wanted to replace my Apple Watch puck with Airpower and gain the ability to charge my headphones there too, and then if I ever get a wireless charging iPhone be able to get rid of the lightning cable as well. I don't mind trading the lightning cable between my phone and Airpods, but I imagined I wouldn't have to for long with the AirPower releasing seeming so imminent.

I feel like a sucker today.

Re: Apple Cancels AirPower Product

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Post by swozey »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

They're way better now, but I specifically only buy the Samsungs with fast charging that have a fan built in. I have to really mangle how it's put on the charger (like half of the phone hanging off the edge) to have any issues.

I've got a few of these for my old s8 and s10 and they work great. Only downside I can think of is when my battery is low and I need to keep taking the phone off the charger to respond to something, at that point I just cable it in so I can use it and charge at the same time. It's also of course not as fast as cabled fast charging so if I'm very low I'll cable it.

That's not incredibly frequent but does come up every few weeks.

I love them at my desks but I use cables everywhere else as I'm usually grabbing my phone to use it (like in bed).

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