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Apple's AirPower, Unveiled in September 2017, Officially Misses 2018 Shipping Deadline (9to5mac.com)
From a 9to5Mac report: As the new year begins in Pacific Time, where Apple's Cupertino headquarters are based, the AirPower charging mat has officially missed its 2018 release window. The charging mat promised to charge iPhone, Apple Watch and AirPods on a single compact mat with flexibility on where devices can be placed. However, the product has been rumored to have faced internal development challenges as late as this past summer, which prevented Apple from bringing the product to market as smoothly as it expected.
[...] Unusually, Apple has not provided a statement to press with an update on AirPower's status. Apple refused to acknowledge the product at its September and October events, and has not responded to press requests for comment at the end of December. The product therefore enters 2019 still in limbo.
[...] Unusually, Apple has not provided a statement to press with an update on AirPower's status. Apple refused to acknowledge the product at its September and October events, and has not responded to press requests for comment at the end of December. The product therefore enters 2019 still in limbo.
Nikola Tesla is rolling in his grave...
Bluetooth headphones - worse than a wire.
Clearly Apple is learning from its past mistakes ...
Apple wanted to increase buzz by letting the constant stream of Apple Haters have a few more months of giving them free press by trash talking them.
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Just don't give us constant updates on this sh**. Seriously, why is it journalists feel we need updates on all of Apple's stock movements constantly. Does anyone care about this, and is anyone surprised N
Why is this even a story? Any common sense person would realize Apple decided not to release it for whatever reason. Was not even mentioned in the last iPhone event.
Am I the only literate person here?
Charging mat - for people who are too lazy & feckless to plug in a cable.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Well, Apple is used to refining tech developed by others and assembling it in something "stylish". So it is not shocking that they have issues developing something relativelly new. Give them some time...
is starting to have a negative impact on delivery dates. /s
My penis. Your mouth.
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Apple delayed because they couldn't find a way to make it incompatible with any other wireless charging system.
You're not.
Headquarters is derived from head quarters (the quarters - living areas - of the people leading the organisation).
Quarters is the plural of quarter.
"The word is plural in construction and can take singular or plural verbs."
Thus "headquarters is" and "headquarters are" are both perfectly valid English (depending where you live) while the obvious plural (ending in 's') will tend to lead people to use it as a plural instead of singular.
There is not one "headquarter". Nobody uses that term except US English. There is one set of "headquarters". Though language evolves, the plural is the original, just as valid today, and more common worldwide.
Thank you for the lesson
the term you're looking for is "vaporware".
When does it become eligible for misleading advertising? I purchased a new iPhone and AirPods, in part, because I liked the idea of a single wireless charging platform.
Speaking of slipping bullshit, how is uBeam going ? Another success storey headed by a strong, independent woman socking it to " The Man" !
At least Apples inductive loop charging will actually work without 99.9% losses......
Was the author watching the clock with trembling hands hoping Apple would fail on a deadline?
Actually, there IS one "headquarter".
It just happens to be a verb instead of a noun.
"The word is plural in construction ..."
This makes no sense. "quarters" is plural but that doesn't make "headquarters" plural, "headquarters" being a specific one (the head one) of the quarters. There could be one or more "head" quarters, therefore the "construction" is ambiguous.
'"There is not one "headquarter". '
No, but there could be one "headquarters", as above.
"Though language evolves, the plural is the original..."
A misreading of the origin of the word.
How is he supposed to discuss with your penis in his mouth?
#DeleteFacebook
Scanning the options sheet for Mercedes...a charging mat is an option.....
I think it's absurd to beat up Apple over the inability to ship a charging mat that they mentioned just once!! Come on, was it really a huge problem for Apple they could not ship something that you can buy a score of near equivalent products for?
If you really wanted a story about Apple missing deadlines, it seems like, oh, I don't know, maybe the Mac Pro would be a better target for that? Since there is no word about that yet and at one point we were all expecting it to arrive at the end of 2018. Mac users would really be chomping at the bit if they hadn't been placated to some degree by the iMac Pro and updated Mac mini, but there are indeed some users that really need a Mac Pro, it would be great to have word from Apple about that... now it seems like maybe we'll not hear about it until June.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
apple aqquired vapourwae company ppowerbyproxi in October 2017
ASL?
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
Apple vs physics: physics wins. Maybe consider letting engineers design products instead of powerpoint managers.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
They most certainly can not. They use some proprietary Apple extension to Qi to charge and require special mats to charge on.
Fake news. Find on Amazon a SINGLE Qi charger that says it is not iPhone compatible. You cannot, because they are... the typical text reads:
The magic array wireless charger adapts to all Qi compatible devices, including iPhone 8/ iPhone 8 plus/ iPhone X/ XR/ Xs/ Xs
Now Apple DOES have some custom additions to support a faster charging rate, But even there iPhones can still use something like 7.5W of the total charging ability of devices that support greater charging ability, instead of the base 5W. I think Samsung can support up to 10W with it's own custom QI extension... or maybe it's just supporting a faster Qi standard, I am murky on that point since I consider "wireless" charging technology kind of useless overall since it all actually has wires..
The Apple charger I think would have been something like 10-15W so it would be faster. But again, its not like the other chargers do not work and ALL of them are somewhat slow compared to a wall charger, so they are about as useful.
Frankly even if Apple had shipped the charging mat I would not have even bought it as other wireless chargers have configurations I prefer.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
How's life in the hypocrite lane?
That's not nearly the same, though, right?
The Apple that made high quality hardware that really did 'just work' is dead and gone.
I'm os agnostic and run all three on my laptops. The simple, clean, robust and well built macs I've relied on don't exist anymore.
It's a shame.
(one of things that I always loved about macs is that the mouse tracking was basically flawless. That's been gone for quite a few years now.)
Am I the only one that DOESN'T want wireless power?
Call it a decade or two of wiring 110v or having lightning strike close enough (twice) to feel some of it . . . I'm in no hurry for wireless power. Honestly, I think smart-leads (that can't be shorted) on the back of the phone and a gravity cradle that contacts enough to integrate was an idea we never should have went away from.
Apple has to make sure it's not going to cross someone's ironclad patents (one it know it would lose against) as well as make it safe to charge. THEN they need to make sure non-certified stuff doesn't cause a fire (shuts it down, doesn't work). Any time almost any cell phone bursts, catches fire, or leaks, we find someone that couldn't even pay for a good knockoff adapter.
One poster said they couldn't make it inoperable with everyone else's stuff --- this is one technology I'd like to see the big-guys develop themselves (own the problem) and see what implementation is right before we start making everything "compatible".
I don't get it. Apple is having trouble designing a Qi charger? I've been using a wireless charger for a couple years now. My current phone, a Kyocera, came with it built in, but I had to add a $5 coil into the back of my Samsung S6 for it to work. The Samsung charging pad cost about $15. I don't understand why Apple is having issues.
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