If the goal they failed to meet was fast wireless charging then Xiaomi did that successfully already.
So how are those new airpods that only charge wirelessly gonna work?
Fuckin apple. So sick of their shit, and sick of the people who eat it the fuck up.
I don't understand how the most anti-consumer company on the fucking planet, is the richest.
Only dumb people can make that happen.
They wanted to make fast charging pad that could charge 3 devices at once in ny position.
https://i.imgur.com/ktIwyi0.png
IMO this thing was doomed from the minute they announced it. It was simply too ambitious of an engineering project to succeed with the tech we have now. If they managed to succeed, this almost certainly would've been the greatest Qi wireless charger ever released hands down. It was supposed to be able to charge wirelessly fast-charge 3 devices at once, anywhere you put them on the mat, because the plan was to have 21-24 coils in the mat. For reference, the charger on the market with the highest number of coils I can find has 5 - AirPower would've had at least 4 times that, in a small fanless charging mat.
Yep, that thing could speed up global warming on full throttle, I suspect
Because the free market doesn't work the way people think it does
it's not that they struggled with meeting the fast wireless charging part, it's that offering fast wireless charging for three different devices in a single, rather compact unit is asking for way too much from modern wireless charging technologies
they can still charge through standard wired charging, and they still work with preexisting wireless chargers using the Qi standard
Same thing can be said about a lot of their products in the last decade.
You've got the Butterfly Keyboard fiasco (which is still going on even after 3 generations!), multiple iPhone bugs, a sudden increase in security issues (mostly Kernel Exploits in MacOS) and stupid design decisions like riveting the keyboard into MacBooks which takes a £30 keyboard repair up to the multiple hundreds as they've got to rip the MacBook apart to get the broken keyboard out (because the rivets don't come out properly).
It just looks like the money went to their head. They knew about the issues, but they also knew there'd be a bunch of idiots who would do their damndest to ignore the issues and spend over the top on products which may look nice, but under the hood have inexcusable flaws for the asking price.
I was really hoping this would succeed because it would have been an incredible innovation. I'm pretty sure they solved the problem with being able to put devices anywhere on the pad, but couldn't get it to be a reasonable price.
If there was no free market there would be no smartphones and Facepunch. I remember the time when calling people on a stationary phone was normal. Were Soviet Union to swallow up the whole world and destroy that pesky free market at last, it would've been the norm still.
Every single piece of hardware inside the first iPhone was developed by military with government money, and so was the internet.
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-military-is-responsible-for-almost-all-the-technology-in-your-iphone-2014-10
Military operates in free market like no other market. I specifically said that if SU was to swallow up the whole world they would have no enemies to fight and those enemies wouldn't develop anything for soviets to steal.
So technological, societal, and artistic developments would never happen in a system without currency? Or jobs?
Eh without a currency you won't get anything more complex than a potato.
It's imaginable for a complex society to exist without it. Which is why planned economy doesn't work in theory, because it's impossible to come up with prices. Soviets took their prices from the free west to plan their economy.
That doesn't even make sense? They could price it however they want.
Okay, granddad.
looks like apple folks will have to use the galaxy S10 to charge their accessories wirelessly
How so?
Please explain
People assume that if a company or corporation doesn't serve consumers, the free market will naturally force it to either treat consumers better, or go out of business. They think that the free market creates a system where only the best of the best survives, but we can see that''s not true. All the free market does is reward the powerful with more power, and encourages them to use their power to bend and break any rules that stop them from making the most profit, off the least cost. Free market encourages monopoly.
"Its impossible to do this"
https://image.samsung.com/us/smartphones/galaxy-note9/accessory/duo/06_ACCESSORIES_07_Wireless-charger-duo_1440-FB.jpg
Sure, and samsung hasn't had this for 3 years now
but it doesn't match apple's high standards / inability to make it
they probably couldn't figure out how to make a 500% markup
lots of misunderstandings in this thread.
air power is a flat surface that charges 3 Qi devices at once irregardless of where they are placed
you could place the items anywhere on the pad and they would charge, without hunting for three marked charging points like all other Qi chargers
well that's needlessly complicated. Wireless charging doesn't work like that, you have to center your items in the middle of the coil, you can't just software around physics like that
it was going to have 35 qi coils layered and spread around, and it would just turn on the 3 coils that were closest to the devices
https://edge.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/samsung-galaxy-buds-hands-on-1-1280x720.jpg
Samsung allows devices to charge one another now.
they came up with a overly complicated idea and failed.
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