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Apple's AirPower Wireless Charging Mat Is In Production (theverge.com)
Apple's long-delayed AirPower wireless charging mat might finally be in production. According to a tweet from ChargerLAB, a "credible source" says that Apple has begun manufacturing the long-delayed wireless charging mat. The Verge reports: If true, it could mean that the long-overdue product could finally reach the hands of consumers before too much longer. Apple announced in September 2017, that it was introducing wireless charging capabilities in with the iPhone 8 and iPhone X, and gave a preview for its own wireless charging mat that would not only charge the iPhone, but its Apple Watch and AirPods. At the time, Apple didn't announce a price -- only that it was expected to be released sometime in 2018. That obviously didn't happen...
If what ChargerLAB says is accurate, that could mean that we'll see more about them in the near future. The site's tweet says that the devices are being manufactured at Luxshare Precision, which already manufactures Apple's AirPods and some cords. MacRumors translated a screenshot of ChargerLAB's WeChat conversation, in which the site's source expects the device be released soon. But given the charger's history of delays and technical challenges, it's probably best not to get one's hopes up just yet.
If what ChargerLAB says is accurate, that could mean that we'll see more about them in the near future. The site's tweet says that the devices are being manufactured at Luxshare Precision, which already manufactures Apple's AirPods and some cords. MacRumors translated a screenshot of ChargerLAB's WeChat conversation, in which the site's source expects the device be released soon. But given the charger's history of delays and technical challenges, it's probably best not to get one's hopes up just yet.
Shiny whizbang marketing gimmick-convenience has no price, sell your mother's eyes for new improved magic beans.
Really, BeauHD, are you really so lazy and clueless that you can't fix the punctuation so it can be displayed here?
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
Nicely put good chap
really??
1) Get rid of features users actually wanted, so those users will be forced to buy more stuff. See "ports on laptops", "headphone jack on phones", MagSafe power connector, etc. Apple is shitting all over itself with this idiocy and unless you are yourself an idiot you will be forced to conclude that Apple has made many of its products LESS USEFUL and less worth owning.
2) Make and market stuff no one needs ( like this charging pad ! ) so more materials are wasted making stuff so Apple can fill its coffers.
3) Never listen to actual end users, because Apple presumes to be some sort of omniscient being and will tell you what you need.
4) Take software which was once tolerable and transform it into a bloated useless piece of shit ( iTunes, anyone ? ).
5) Wastes time and money trying to inject itself into "social" causes, like championing people who think a dick belongs in an asshole. HEY APPLE :
queers are not your core market, and most of us find queers repulsive. You're not going to force us to like stuff we find sickening.
Tim Cook is destroying a company which used to make stuff that really was good.
If the shareholders don't revolt and get Cook to step down, then they deserve to see the value of their shares plummet.
Prediction - iPhone XX will have a solar charging screen that will give you up to 3 days between plug-in charges. ;-)
Maybe
I have a wireless charging mat for my Android phone. It has a few problems. One, the charging is a lot slower than by wire because the efficiency is so poor. Two, the phone has to be placed just right on the pad to consistently charge. A few degrees or centimeters from the ideal position, and the phone charges for a minute or so, then stops, then resumes, over and over again. This slows down the charge, and it probably isn't great for the battery to switch constantly between charging and discharging.
I had a thought to build the charging mat into a kind of stand for the phone that would hold both in the ideal position to charge, but I quickly realized that what I had invented was a charging cradle, and if it just hooked a wire into the charging port on the phone instead of incorporating the mat, it would do everything the wireless mat is doing, but faster and with better energy efficiency.
Maybe Apple's is better, but my experience is that there's not that much point to wireless charging. These days, I just plug my phone in.
Multiplied by the amount of units they'll unload: how many additional nuclear power plants will be needed just to compensate for the apple users that are too lazy to plug in a cable to charge their device?
Tweet - so that means we heard this from a tweeting sound?
Congratulations, Apple, on both:
- implementing 19th Century technology - albeit late and...
- making a big hoopla and getting consumers excited about it
Geezus, it's a frickin' coil of wire! How hard can this be?
I think the concerns about efficiency are overblown, though. Transformers (and this is basically a transformer, formed between the "charger" and a coil in the charged device) can be as high as 98%.
From the company that brought you putting your face on an animated piece of shit comes wasteful, slower charging mechanism years after everybody else.
I'm sure there will be Apple fanboys around that will diligently advocate for this though, if you have seen the keynote where they introduced animojis you can hear the raucous celebratory cheering, howls and whistles from the crowd as Apple announced that their new iPhone would be capable of making you look like a piece of shit.
I like to think that there was at least somebody at Apple saying "come on guys, even our most unthinking fanboys aren't going to buy into us putting their face on a cartoon piece of shit", oh how wrong that person was.
In spite of their massive value drop of ~30% from being a $1 trillion company not too long ago I'm not one of those people predicting the demise of Apple on the back of their shrinking device sales and branching out their services businesses beyond the walled garden (certainly Microsoft is doing very well moving in this direction). However they are most definitely going their way to being a less interesting and far less innovative company. Controversially removing ports from their phones and computers and nonsense like Animojis is really a way to distract from the lack of innovation (or failed attempts at it like the idiotic trashcan Mac Pro). Even the key part of their current phone design lineup was lifted from "Essential" so they aren't even innovating in design anymore.
Apple won't go away and I don't think their platforms will go away, they'll just become less interesting as they license their previously unique services to other vendors and just gradually iterate on their existing products. The iPhone is now commodified, really anybody who wants one has one and you've either thrown money down the toilet on the latest XS so you can put your face on emojis or you've got the more sensible and perfectly workable iPhone 6/7/8, people don't line up around the blocks on release day anymore because the product is simply not special.
No ports = they control how the thing is charged = what can charge it.
So you either pay Apple for the charging accessory, or end up paying Apple for another accessory (that third party accessory maker has to pay an Apple license, which they pass on to you...)
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No one's forcing you to buy one, dipshit.
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before these things start catching on fire and then we hear from the apple defence force how its the users fault.
lol
Nobody "forced" Jack to buy magic beans either, per the analogy, dipshit. Maybe when you learn to read you can start with Jack and the Beanstalk?
Well, TFS was written by one of those fanboys. You see, he tried to cover it up by deleting the âSent from my iPhoneâ message that Apple automatically adds to the end, but he gave himself up when he wrote Ã(TM) after many of his words, which he couldn't help doing because, as a loyal owner of a sample of Steve Jobsâs fecal matter, this iFanâ wanted to make sure that Appleâs trademarks, and Jobâs legacy, couldn't be âgenericizedâ.
Nobody "forced" Jack to buy magic beans either, per the analogy, dipshit.
Also the beans really were magic, so it wasn't just "marketing", and he got all the giant's gold, so the beans were a good deal.
Fee-fi-fo-fum, the bean analogy is really dumb.
The problem with wireless charging is that it is not wireless charging, It is inductive charging. It requires you to still go to the location of the charger and place the phone on the charger.
If one must go through the trouble to walk over to their inductive charging pad, set the phone down, is there really any advantage to talking the couple seconds longer to plug it into a cable to charge, which will charger faster and more efficiently?
The only reason apple wants this is because it will allow them to eliminate the last port on their phone and will give users no choice but to use things like air pods.
How the fuck was Jack going to MOVE the GIANT gold from the castle in the sky, genius?
He could use gravity. Gold is heavy, so gravity will move it downward.
And NOBODY told him they'd grow into a beanstalk leading to gold
But he was told they were magic, and they were.
Further you're overlooking the possibility the whole thing was a drunk's dream
Why would someone just make up a story? Occam's Razor says the magic beans were real, since that is the simplest explanation.
The product may now ship but the reputation damage is permanent. Right up there with the white I-phone.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
How the fuck was Jack going to MOVE the GIANT gold from the castle in the sky, genius?
Yeah, you'd have to be some kind of Einstein to figure out how to use mass-energy-induced space-time curvature to accelerate heavy objects along a geodesic from the sky to the ground.
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Apple are producing old (and highly inefficient) technology and selling it as the new hotness!
I did not see this dramatic plot twist to their product lineup coming.
Scaled GIANT, gold would be nigh-immovable by humans even today. 1 coin would be a massive undertaking to move at all. You're obviously not a physics major lol. Debunker debunked, next fairy tale truther?
Jack's world was set in medieval times, the technology of note was cows and beans. Occam's Razor lightly suggests you have better things to worry about, if you read it more carefully. Life is precious, what a waste.
GIANT gold coins, or worse gold bricks, scaled appropriately for a GIANTS CASTLE in a FAIRY TALE, unless they're already perfectly-rounded and already too happen to be on their edges, WOULD BE IMMOVABLE.
On "the ground" in the sky. Otherwise they'd already have fallen. Swell attempt to think things through there Einstein, but you.. kinda tripped and died out the starting gate unfortunately. Tie those shoes, try again.
Debunk the fairy tale better or you're getting kicked out of Mensa, I don't make the rules.
I just bought two wireless charging pads from Costco for $18. How many of these can I get for $18?
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
Finally, the last connector port can be elimited from the design.
THERE WILL ALWAYS BE CONSEQUENCES FOR YOUR LIES AND PROPAGANDA NAZI FAGGOT KEN DOLL UNTIL YOU DIE.
Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING. Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING. Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
How the fuck was Jack going to MOVE the GIANT gold from the castle in the sky, genius?
Who said anything about moving it? - Goldfinger...
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
If nothing else here... I have lost control of my meme.
Otherwise, we might have to worry about wasting all that extra energy for nothing more than the minor convenience of not plugging a cable in.
Apple will just remove the power/usb connector from iphone and poof, every customer has to buy a charging mat. Their next step is selling a subscription to apple certified wireless electricity.
Hey, why not? That strategy worked for Trump in his 2016 election bid.
It's always awesome when someone makes grammatical errors in a statement complaining about others' grammatical errors.
Not only will it not do much more then what's already out there. It will most likely be priced as yet another money maker for Apple. I am sure the flock will somehow convince themselves that it must be better, and worthy of the Apple tax.
Shiny whizbang marketing gimmick-convenience has no price, sell your mother's eyes for new improved magic beans.
Also late to the market... Every Android phone I've owned for the last 5 years has had wireless charging... using a standard that didn't tie me to a single vendor.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
They'll finally be brave enough to remove the power charging option from the USB connector.
According to TFS, Apple said they would release AirPower "in 2018". It is now less than TWO WEEKS into 2019, and apparently Apple is already in Production.
Sounds like an insignificant "delay" to me.
Apple will just remove the power/usb connector from iphone and poof, every customer has to buy a charging mat. Their next step is selling a subscription to apple certified wireless electricity.
I laughed at this, then it dawned on me this really could happen.
- Sent from my iPhone
I don't believe the gold is specified as being giant. It could just as easily have been gold dust (perhaps the goose was fed with it). Furthermore he also takes the goose
LUL. In production != for sale. We have no idea when they will be on sale.
So now Apple has "innovated" wireless charging.
Just like my Windows Trophy (7.1), HTC 8X (8.1) and Lumina 735 (10). That's what, nearly TEN YEARS BEHIND FUCKING WINDOWS (It's dead Jim) PHONE?
Christ can't Apple keep up?
Tying to a single vendor? Maybe I missed something, my iPhone XR uses an "Atomi Power Pad 3x" charging mat just fine. So apparently I have choices on which pad to use.
Are you upset because the Apple device may or may not work with non-Apple devices, is that it? I'm trying to understand the issue here. Another competing product usually makes everyone else tighten their stuff, resulting in better offerings for customers. Leapfrogging is great.