Maybe after the new keyboard mechanism failures, bending iPads, and failing laptop video ribbon cables, Apple has decided not to open another can of worms and just cut the losses. One can argue that it is the best decision.
Yes, it is a ridiculous world we live in when real-life engineering problems make my entitlement to consumer goods secondary. Don't they know who I am??
How immature. No need to be so aggressive. It’s ridiculous Apple announced a product as early as they did. There’s nothing entitlement related to that at all.
Um, I’m pretty sure he was being sarcastic. A slight jab at the people whose lives are ruined by this devastating announcement.
Perhaps it will teach Timmy & Co to go back to good, old, well tested Apple product management practices of NOT announcing product till they are ready to ship (meaning they are also properly tested)!
Now if they had done the same with certain keyboards too, a lot of grief on both sides of the coin would have been avoided.
Stop trolling please. The discussion has been going well. We don't need these "Timmy" trolling comments.
It’s great they made an official announcement one way or the other. You probably won’t see products shown like that again until they are really working. Not sure why anybody should be that let down about it. There are other options out there with 3 fixed pads that do charging. So what if you have to take 5 seconds to find the right spots on the pads, who cares. It’s just a charger, that’s all it does
So it was always ever vaporware. Nice going, Apple.
I think you should do a little homework so you can understand what Vaporware truly is. Obviously you don't.
Apparently, nor do you. "Vapourware: nounComputing, informal. Software or hardware that has been advertised but is not yet available to buy, either because it is only a concept or because it is still being written or designed."
I have to seriously laugh at some of the hater comments here. Time after time when Apple has a blunder with one of their products then the haters go on a rampage saying Apple's QC has gone down. Today the company announces their wireless charging mat is presenting some technical problems and they are not ready to ship it. Sounds like the company is on top of the QC here. Apple doesn't want to put out a faulty product and the trolls come alive here trashing Apple for doing the right thing. Hmm.
So it was always ever vaporware. Nice going, Apple.
I think you should do a little homework so you can understand what Vaporware truly is. Obviously you don't.
Apparently, nor do you. "Vapourware: noun Computing, informal. Software or hardware that has been advertised but is not yet available to buy, either because it is only a concept or because it is still being written or designed."
Oh, count me in too then. I hadn't considered Airpower to be vaporware, but based on the meaning of the word I suppose technically it might be.
So it was always ever vaporware. Nice going, Apple.
I think you should do a little homework so you can understand what Vaporware truly is. Obviously you don't.
Apparently, nor do you. "Vapourware: noun Computing, informal. Software or hardware that has been advertised but is not yet available to buy, either because it is only a concept or because it is still being written or designed."
Ok then using this definition, everything is vaporware until it's ready to ship.
Most people reserve the term for companies that are hyping a product that they know isn't ready. So AirPower was vaporware 19 months ago, but lost that status when Apple stopped talking about.
Thought it was a neat idea when they first unveiled it. But by six months ago it hadn't appeared and everyone and their cat was selling Qi compatible charging devices while still Apple hadn't released theirs. This isn't really a surprise, though I will admit being taken in by last weeks flurry of hardware releases and all the speculation that it would be next. But no, this was not really a surprise.
Wow. What a fiasco and admission that they weren’t able to make it real AFTER teasing it.
I tend to save "fiasco" for events that have some meaningful impact on a company's business. Boeing knows what a fiasco looks like; exploding phones is a fiasco; canceling a cool accessory is an unfortunate blip.
Kind of troubling. It can't be the engineering, since there are a billion Tom/Dick/Harry Qi chargers out there... Can't be manufacturing, since Apple makes far more complex things.
"Can't meet our high standards"? So what was it, really?
I have to seriously laugh at some of the hater comments here. Time after time when Apple has a blunder with one of their products then the haters go on a rampage saying Apple's QC has gone down. Today the company announces their wireless charging mat is presenting some technical problems and they are not ready to ship it. Sounds like the company is on top of the QC here. Apple doesn't want to put out a faulty product and the trolls come alive here trashing Apple for doing the right thing. Hmm.
It has gone down, and it not trolling. We see quality issues both in hardware and software that would not have slipped in the past.
So it was always ever vaporware. Nice going, Apple.
I think you should do a little homework so you can understand what Vaporware truly is. Obviously you don't.
Apparently, nor do you. "Vapourware: noun Computing, informal. Software or hardware that has been advertised but is not yet available to buy, either because it is only a concept or because it is still being written or designed."
Alright fair enough, but the term generally is used in regards to companies at CES who only show concepts and announce that the product will be available in the coming months of the same year, but are never talked about any further for several years. It's usually to create hype. I don't see where Apple qualifies under this situation.
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to always be underwhelming and fragile. Good riddance to both.
Stop trolling please. The discussion has been going well. We don't need these "Timmy" trolling comments.
Most people reserve the term for companies that are hyping a product that they know isn't ready. So AirPower was vaporware 19 months ago, but lost that status when Apple stopped talking about.
I tend to save "fiasco" for events that have some meaningful impact on a company's business. Boeing knows what a fiasco looks like; exploding phones is a fiasco; canceling a cool accessory is an unfortunate blip.
"Can't meet our high standards"? So what was it, really?