Apple officially cancels AirPower after an eighteen month delay

29 March 2019
Announced back in September 2017, AirPower proved too ambitious to be turned into reality.

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  • 30 Mar 2019

Luxor, 30 Mar 2019Wireless dream just got disconnected after almost 2 years. ... moreThey innovate. They never say invent. Putting stuff together to create new products.

Gunpowder was invented in China, Western innovate it to guns, Chinese innovate it to fireworks.

Flexible displays came out, Samsung fold in, huawei fold out, xiaomi fold twice.

You find sony camera in other brand phones.

Ur comments can be applied to just about every companies out there now.

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    • Luxor
    • KZK
    • 30 Mar 2019

    Wireless dream just got disconnected after almost 2 years. Liar company that cannot deliver. There you go. Apple cannot innovate. The next news you will see they will buy a wireless charging company or something and 'innovatively' come out with Airpower. When does Apple ever invent anything? They just buy and own things and claimed it invented by them.

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      • PMT
      • 30 Mar 2019

      Kangal, 29 Mar 2019The connectivity portion (of showing %), is not easy, but i... moreit was the charging pad itself- not having enough space for the induction coils was the issue. there was a discussion about this in a tech blog site (i forgot the name but i'll look for it again). each device of course will have to be provided its own induction coil; the design is simply too small for three induction coils to be laid out next to each other as there cannot be an overlap between them. the trouble with wireless charging is that the coils on both the charging mat and the device have to be properly aligned for it to work, and each single coil on the mat can only charge one device at a time. with apple's design there needs to be total of 3 induction coils laid out next to each other. it doesnt have to be the same sizes but they can never overlap, which would make the design for small footprint unuseable- it has to be bigger.

        We continue to believe that the future is wireless and are committed to push the wireless experience forward.
        Lightening port is about to die

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          • AnonD-844557
          • X$c
          • 30 Mar 2019

          Apple can't even make a wireless charger pad lol

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            • AnonD-732843
            • gCm
            • 30 Mar 2019

            The most important question is: How long can apple delay consumers' minds before they finally snap out of the brainwashing of which they're the victims of?

              As expected.....
              They need someone to copy or a company to buy, to come up with anything new...

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                • wre
                • 30 Mar 2019

                Anonymous, 29 Mar 2019Samsung will create one. Samsung already made 3 version of it for years

                  Well china will probably make it a reality soon enough

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                    • pI@
                    • 30 Mar 2019

                    Anonymous, 29 Mar 2019There's something similar by Samsung since long time... Jus... moreWhy you say Samsung ? Why not Huawei or Xiaomi or Oppo or what ever Asian brand ?
                    Btw samsung makes everything by it's own. Does the design and architecture or the tech and everything. Basically make TV's and washing machines and freezers and what ever you think of by there own. Apple does what exactly by there own ? Copy design only and it's not like they made any of the CPU's they so called designed as it was existing technology and they just set parts together. They all use the same cores but just tweak them a bit and thats about it.

                    Apple only innovation was to start patent war with silly things like rounded corners or a home button under screen. Apple didnt invent touchscreen phones even as they were in the market before them. Jobs just made genius commercials that made it popular and thats about it. And they copied the shape of the phone too as rectangular box and then sue Samsung that made phones decades before Apple even had idea to make them.

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                      • Anonymous
                      • Ngy
                      • 29 Mar 2019

                      Anonymous, 29 Mar 2019Samsung will create one. Copy*

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                        • 0Wf
                        • 29 Mar 2019

                        dbjungle, 29 Mar 2019So does this mean headphone jacks are coming back?From Apple? NO. They are still affirming that they want all wireless and NO standard, all propietary from them to make all pay them for all.

                          So does this mean headphone jacks are coming back?

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                            • Anonymous
                            • j5y
                            • 29 Mar 2019

                            hmm, 29 Mar 2019It's when you cant copy from others, then apple cant make i... moreThere's something similar by Samsung since long time... Just that they can't copy it properly

                              The connectivity portion (of showing %), is not easy, but its definitely not difficult.
                              The charging pad itself is not difficult.

                              The only excuse that actually makes sense is if the Wireless Charging was too slow.
                              And at 10W's its pretty slow, so people were expecting something proprietary of better.
                              If that is the justification, then I am sympathetic to Apple's decision here.

                              ....and somehow I have a feeling that is not the justification for cancelling the device.

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                                • Anonymous
                                • 2Au
                                • 29 Mar 2019

                                Oh come on Apple, give it to the Chinese and they will show you how it is done

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • 2Au
                                  • 29 Mar 2019

                                  I've waited more than a year for this and now this is what I see? apple are we (apple fans) to you?

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                                    • JbS
                                    • 29 Mar 2019

                                    This is why OEM's like Apple should stick to being OEM's.

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                                      • Anonymous
                                      • IVN
                                      • 29 Mar 2019

                                      Samsung will create one.

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                                        • pI@
                                        • 29 Mar 2019

                                        It's when you cant copy from others, then apple cant make it by there own.
                                        Need to have something in the market that have it working, so it will be easy to copy for them. Thats how they roll or at least thats how it looks like they roll from a spectators view.