From John Gruber at Daringfireball
AIRPOWER: I wrote about AirPower’s absence earlier this week. What I’ve heard, third-hand but from multiple little birdies, is that AirPower really is well and truly fucked. Something about the multi-coil design getting too hot — way too hot. There are engineers who looked at AirPower’s design and said it could never work, thermally, and now those same engineers have that “told you so” smug look on their faces. Last year Apple was apparently swayed by arguments that they could figure out a way to make it not get hot. They were, clearly, wrong. I think they’ve either had to go completely back to the drawing board and start over with an entirely different design, or they’ve decided to give up and they just don’t want to say so.
— Read on daringfireball.net/
Looks like Apple designed themselves into a corner. While the technology was interesting and convenient, it was a nicety.
AirPower was on my list because it was new and did something different, but it wasn’t a must have.
It will be interesting to see what happens here.
- Does Apple keep pushing to solve its issues?
- Does it pivot the device into something else?
- Does it scrap the project all together and sweep it under the rug?
- How will this effect future devices?