Selling point is that you can put all your mobile devices on it. So it’s assumed you’re using more than one and it isn’t a quality experience if you have to sacrifice charging speed for regular use.
Re:Apple Cancels AirPower Product
by Dylan16807 on Friday March 29, 2019 @07:42PM
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The phone is the only one that needs a particularly high wattage. If sharing drops the phone speed by a third, that leaves enough spare capacity to do a watch and airpods at the same time (with both of them getting more percent per hour than the phone). That's still a pretty good experience.
What if they couldn’t get the multi coil design to work charging ANYTHING at high power.
Maybe it was capable of charging the watch and the AirPods just fine, it was the phone’s power demands that were the thing killing it.
Re:Apple Cancels AirPower Product
by Dylan16807 on Friday March 29, 2019 @11:17PM
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Definitely one possibility of many! That's why it's so hard to guess which one or two aspects really tanked it.
Re:Apple Cancels AirPower Product
by craftinator on Saturday March 30, 2019 @08:30PM
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Fire? Like, GS Note 7 fire? That would do the trick!
Is it lack of satisfaction with those tradeoffs? Is there a more fundamental flaw somewhere else? It would be nice to know what actually caused this decision.