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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.
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.
I'm pretty sure these charging mats use some kind of induction, which doesn't spew EM radiation all over. Still more wasteful than plugging in, though.
I don't really understand the benefit of these, since it won't reduce cable clutter around your desk. I guess one might make sense if one charger replaces lots of small ones in a workplace etc. Otherwise, it sounds about as useful as a Wifi AP that only works within touching distance.
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
Yep.
And that last article about people not willing to pay Apple's insane prices anymore is amusing. And the article before about them eying 3D cameras, although phones have already done that. And Apple users laughing at phones with fingerprint sensors, then Apple "inventing" it. And laughing at large-screen phones, then "inventing" it. And laughing at the capacitive Samsung S Pen, then "inventing" the concept with the Apple Pencil. Other companies were first with OLED displays, wireless charging, optical stabilization, touch screens, smart watches, keyboard covers, zoom pinching, face ID, removal of home button, slim bezels, dual rear cameras, RFID payments, water resistance... but the distortion field says that either Apple invented them or somehow only Apple could make it work right.
But let's give them credit- they were among the first with no headphone jack, non-user-replaceable batteries, and strange cut-out areas on the display.
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
You chucked one off a bridge in Scotland and it landed in Lincolnshire?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
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.