Apple cancels AirPower product, citing inability to meet its high standards

[Merry Nihilist]

Because my parents lived there and I know how the wonderful planned economy "for the people" looks like. And no, they really didn't. The absolute majority of Soviet inventions we're "answers" to the western this and that made out of lower quality materials. And while they were doing that, ordinary people were rationed margarine instead of butter.

Apple sell a lot of products people are willing to buy, get over it. They made the first exemplary smartphone and capitalized on that. What's bullshit is that the US government lets them pay essentially no taxes while regular people have to chip in. That's disgusting.

[Paul-Simon]

Makes me wonder if you could achieve the same with physically moving coils beneath the shell.

[Peachy]

Yes, but moving parts that are supposed to never, ever be accessed don't tend to work. They'd break, a lot.

[Paul-Simon]

It's not like we can't make mechanical things that last for years and years.
This is a low-load application. It would only move occasionally (maybe a few times per day).

[Peachy]

We really don't have mechanical things like that that work for years and years without mantinence tho.

[Paul-Simon]

Depends entirely what you mean by "mechanical things like that".
Consider a sealed electronics product like a camera lens. They'll work reliably for 10 years no problem, assuming you don't drop them.

[Peachy]

Camera lenses move in one dimension and are "dumb" devices; they've also been able to refine that exact one dimensional action over many generations of product.

[TheTalon]

How about go back to the drawing table for existing products, Apple. Which one of you geniuses came up with a wireless mouse with the charging port on the underside instead of the front? You twats