RIP AirPower 2017-2019

Apple’s charging mat is official dead. AirPower was announced in September of 2017 with the iPhone 8, 8 Plus and X. It went alongside Apple’s addition of Qi wireless charging and was supposed to be an easy way to charge your AirPods, iPhone and Apple Watch. The cancelation was brought to us in a statement to TechCrunch, Apple’s senior Vice President of Hardware Enginerring, Dan Riccio, said “After much effort, we’ve concluded AirPower will not achieve our high standards and we have cancelled the project. We apologize to those customers who were looking forward to this launch. We continue to believe that the future is wireless and are committed to push the wireless experience forward.“ Even if you don’t believe in Apple’s business decisions, you can agree that they release high quality products, Apple could have release a terrible product for over $100 and people would buy it, but Apple decide instead to cancel the product then release something that was not up to their standard. They release expensive products, but everyone can agree they are high quality.