Apple has now officially canceled the air power wireless charging Matt. It's totally dead. The project is over. There is no replacement.
It's done and it's so bizarre just because I mean it didn't have to be a big deal at all. This is theoretically a wireless load, but it became a big deal and became very strange because of the way things where it became this big deal and became very strange because of the way things played out and because of what Air Power should be Air Power, was announced two years ago in 2017 with the iPhone 10 and should be, with the iPhone 10 back two years ago in 2017, and it was supposed to be a wireless charging that in white. You've probably seen pictures of it that would charge the iPhone they are pods and your Apple watch all at the same time and because it was made by Apple over third party stuff couldn't do this, but I would have this sweet iOS integration where would show the charging percentage of all the things on the mat all on iOS on the Phone so it would have been in this pretty nifty solution for people who owned all three things. This is not possible with current standards.
But our team knows how to do this. We call it air power. So look for the are par charger next year. So that was September 2017.
They said next year which would have been 2018 all of 2018 past. We kind of held our breaths and obviously nothing happened now apparently interesting fact at these Apple events, you know, there's typically a Hands-On area where if they announce new products that's where you can get your first time to get footage of it. I was there at that event. I'd spent all my time with the new iPhones are power was also in that Hands-On area, but if you go back and look at those videos from 2017 people were in there people were recording it but nobody was actually able to get anything to work people using air power in their videos were putting things on the mat and they just weren't charging. So that was maybe the first sign things weren't exactly going to plan. So a couple weeks go by A couple months go by and eventually, we're getting into 2018 and people start to wonder as we don't hear anything when are powers coming out? Is it going to be with a new product alongside?
"Something else is going to be its own separate thing. Are they just going to silently put it on sale and then slowly one by one piece by piece Apple started to remove air power from their site? They removed the official listing They removed references to it from other listings".
They just slowly started to erase is power from the internet.
But as you know, you can't really erase something from the internet. It kind of has the opposite effect. So when that started happening everyone started finding that and writing articles about any last traces of anywhere, you could find our power all the way up until a couple days ago when they just started shipping are pods to and those wireless charging cases are power was still mentioned on the box. And if you buy even to this day are pods wireless charging case, there's a diagram of air power on the back of it.
So every time someone found something like this or some updated code in iOS that mentioned Power there would be some little glimmer of hope that maybe we're actually going to see this product but also hopes were kind of dashed every time than in September of 2018. So a whole year after the announcement people will still wonder where it was John Gruber who is awesome and a noted Apple Insider and very reliable source all the time wrote on his site what I've heard third hand, but for multiple Little Birdies is that air power really is well and truly hot something about the multi-coil design getting too hot way too hot. So there are Engineers who looked at are powers original design who said it could never work thermally.
And now those Engineers have a told you so smug look on their faces last year Apple is apparently swayed by arguments that they could figure out a way to make it work without getting hot and they were clearly wrong. So that was one of many reports that seem to point to engineering problems with air power. So what is this multi-coil design? Why is this such a problem? So apparently the big feature of air power was not just that it's a wireless charging that for three things but that you could place any one of these Three things down anywhere on the mat and it would detect what it was and just start charging now, if you're like me and you've used a typical wireless charger before that process with one coil in the mat and one coil in the phone can kind of be this like awkward process of lining it up and getting it just right for it to start charging and if it's off or if you bump it and you wake up the next morning and you dumped it off the coil.
It wouldn't have charged and some larger mats have had up to three coils for you know, three different Hotspots for charging three different things at once. But generally, Apple just wanted to basically reinvent this way of wireless charging you wanted to add their own Magic Touch to it. So there are comments. Now from people in this industry saying that air power was rumored to have anywhere from 20 to 30 plus coils in that one mat that allowed for total XY Freedom so you could put it anywhere on the mat and it would pick the nearest coil and be close enough to charge but 20 to 30 coils in one Mass. So clearly thermal issues through that whole process and with that whole idea had it. Not working. It's just too small of a spaceman.
Just apple and thermals just don't seem to get along especially lately. So basically Apple then had two options at that point and this was last year, but at this point they could either change air power like you can't have 20 to 30 coils in this small of a space so you can change it or you can just cancel it and now in March 2019 finally apples admitted this isn't going to work. They're not going to Rebrand it. They're not going to restructure this project they canceled it and I guess that's pretty Apple like that. They would rather cancel the whole project then make different wireless charging man speaking of which there is plenty of other Qi wireless charging pads all over the Internet Nomads sent me this one, but I've had it for a while and used it at home. It's their wireless charging Hub.
You can charge all three things at once the Apple watch kind of goes up top. But you know the same thing it works. It's not like a white orb or anything, but apparently, they went immediately out of stock of these as soon as that sort of news hit that is power wasn't happening. So it's backward on their site, but I'll leave an On the link below for stuff like this. I don't think that many people were actually going to by air power. It's not like a game changer for them. It's not like they canceled the iPhone 11 or something or canceled the Mac Pro glad please don't cancel the Mac Pro by the way. Oh my God, they could cancel. The Mac Pro Apple is canceling unannounced products. The Mac Pro is unannounced.
"They could cancel the Mac, but they're not going to cancel the Mac Pro. That's too important.
Nobody buys a Mac Pro though".
Please don't oh my God. Anyway bottom line. It wasn't a huge deal because of how small of a product it was. I think it would have been maybe a hundred eighty bucks maybe around 200 bucks, but we could be either mad at Apple for not shipping a product that they promised to ship. That's pretty weird. Not a good look at all.
But also we can be glad that they didn't ship something that would have been dangerous for thermal reasons like maybe a Samsung maybe has in the past. Maybe let me know which can appear in if you're kind of bummed that are powers not happening or if you're just having a laugh at Apple for not shipping something they promised they would but there you go. Now, you know way too much about a product that doesn't exist and a timeline and the history and everything that went into it, but that's been it hope you enjoyed thanks for watching.
It's done and it's so bizarre just because I mean it didn't have to be a big deal at all. This is theoretically a wireless load, but it became a big deal and became very strange because of the way things where it became this big deal and became very strange because of the way things played out and because of what Air Power should be Air Power, was announced two years ago in 2017 with the iPhone 10 and should be, with the iPhone 10 back two years ago in 2017, and it was supposed to be a wireless charging that in white. You've probably seen pictures of it that would charge the iPhone they are pods and your Apple watch all at the same time and because it was made by Apple over third party stuff couldn't do this, but I would have this sweet iOS integration where would show the charging percentage of all the things on the mat all on iOS on the Phone so it would have been in this pretty nifty solution for people who owned all three things. This is not possible with current standards.
But our team knows how to do this. We call it air power. So look for the are par charger next year. So that was September 2017.
They said next year which would have been 2018 all of 2018 past. We kind of held our breaths and obviously nothing happened now apparently interesting fact at these Apple events, you know, there's typically a Hands-On area where if they announce new products that's where you can get your first time to get footage of it. I was there at that event. I'd spent all my time with the new iPhones are power was also in that Hands-On area, but if you go back and look at those videos from 2017 people were in there people were recording it but nobody was actually able to get anything to work people using air power in their videos were putting things on the mat and they just weren't charging. So that was maybe the first sign things weren't exactly going to plan. So a couple weeks go by A couple months go by and eventually, we're getting into 2018 and people start to wonder as we don't hear anything when are powers coming out? Is it going to be with a new product alongside?
"Something else is going to be its own separate thing. Are they just going to silently put it on sale and then slowly one by one piece by piece Apple started to remove air power from their site? They removed the official listing They removed references to it from other listings".
They just slowly started to erase is power from the internet.
But as you know, you can't really erase something from the internet. It kind of has the opposite effect. So when that started happening everyone started finding that and writing articles about any last traces of anywhere, you could find our power all the way up until a couple days ago when they just started shipping are pods to and those wireless charging cases are power was still mentioned on the box. And if you buy even to this day are pods wireless charging case, there's a diagram of air power on the back of it.
So every time someone found something like this or some updated code in iOS that mentioned Power there would be some little glimmer of hope that maybe we're actually going to see this product but also hopes were kind of dashed every time than in September of 2018. So a whole year after the announcement people will still wonder where it was John Gruber who is awesome and a noted Apple Insider and very reliable source all the time wrote on his site what I've heard third hand, but for multiple Little Birdies is that air power really is well and truly hot something about the multi-coil design getting too hot way too hot. So there are Engineers who looked at are powers original design who said it could never work thermally.
And now those Engineers have a told you so smug look on their faces last year Apple is apparently swayed by arguments that they could figure out a way to make it work without getting hot and they were clearly wrong. So that was one of many reports that seem to point to engineering problems with air power. So what is this multi-coil design? Why is this such a problem? So apparently the big feature of air power was not just that it's a wireless charging that for three things but that you could place any one of these Three things down anywhere on the mat and it would detect what it was and just start charging now, if you're like me and you've used a typical wireless charger before that process with one coil in the mat and one coil in the phone can kind of be this like awkward process of lining it up and getting it just right for it to start charging and if it's off or if you bump it and you wake up the next morning and you dumped it off the coil.
It wouldn't have charged and some larger mats have had up to three coils for you know, three different Hotspots for charging three different things at once. But generally, Apple just wanted to basically reinvent this way of wireless charging you wanted to add their own Magic Touch to it. So there are comments. Now from people in this industry saying that air power was rumored to have anywhere from 20 to 30 plus coils in that one mat that allowed for total XY Freedom so you could put it anywhere on the mat and it would pick the nearest coil and be close enough to charge but 20 to 30 coils in one Mass. So clearly thermal issues through that whole process and with that whole idea had it. Not working. It's just too small of a spaceman.
Just apple and thermals just don't seem to get along especially lately. So basically Apple then had two options at that point and this was last year, but at this point they could either change air power like you can't have 20 to 30 coils in this small of a space so you can change it or you can just cancel it and now in March 2019 finally apples admitted this isn't going to work. They're not going to Rebrand it. They're not going to restructure this project they canceled it and I guess that's pretty Apple like that. They would rather cancel the whole project then make different wireless charging man speaking of which there is plenty of other Qi wireless charging pads all over the Internet Nomads sent me this one, but I've had it for a while and used it at home. It's their wireless charging Hub.
You can charge all three things at once the Apple watch kind of goes up top. But you know the same thing it works. It's not like a white orb or anything, but apparently, they went immediately out of stock of these as soon as that sort of news hit that is power wasn't happening. So it's backward on their site, but I'll leave an On the link below for stuff like this. I don't think that many people were actually going to by air power. It's not like a game changer for them. It's not like they canceled the iPhone 11 or something or canceled the Mac Pro glad please don't cancel the Mac Pro by the way. Oh my God, they could cancel. The Mac Pro Apple is canceling unannounced products. The Mac Pro is unannounced.
"They could cancel the Mac, but they're not going to cancel the Mac Pro. That's too important.
Nobody buys a Mac Pro though".
Please don't oh my God. Anyway bottom line. It wasn't a huge deal because of how small of a product it was. I think it would have been maybe a hundred eighty bucks maybe around 200 bucks, but we could be either mad at Apple for not shipping a product that they promised to ship. That's pretty weird. Not a good look at all.
But also we can be glad that they didn't ship something that would have been dangerous for thermal reasons like maybe a Samsung maybe has in the past. Maybe let me know which can appear in if you're kind of bummed that are powers not happening or if you're just having a laugh at Apple for not shipping something they promised they would but there you go. Now, you know way too much about a product that doesn't exist and a timeline and the history and everything that went into it, but that's been it hope you enjoyed thanks for watching.
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