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#News(General) [ via IoTForIndiaGroup ]
AirPower is dead. Apple’s long-anticipated inductive charging pad for Apple devices has been canceled due to the fact that it didn’t meet the company’s own high standards, TechCrunch reported earlier today. The product’s cancelation was later confirmed by WIRED. AirPower, which in the months after its hyped announcement was labeled WherePower, is now officially Ne’erPower.
AirPower’s cancelation is an unusual blemish on Apple’s modern product record, particularly in hardware. Most of Apple’s new hardware products are announced with great fanfare, and go on sale in the weeks immediately afterward. AirPower was initially no exception; it was revealed at a buzzy fall hardware event at the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino back in 2017. Apple hedged it slightly then, saying AirPower would be ready sometime in early 2018. But a delay this long—and an eventual admission that it just can’t be done—is almost unheard of in Apple Land, where product launches are often as smooth and polished as a Jony Ive–designed stylus.
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