After much rumor and speculation, Apple has just officially confirmed through TechCrunch that the development of the AirPower charging base has been canceled indefinitely. If you are waiting for the launch, which seemed imminent, of this charging base, you can now start looking for alternatives.
Apple Senior Vice President of Engineering Dan Riccio has sent a statement to TechCrunch in which the Cupertino-based company apologizes to all customers who have been waiting this innovative charging base that allowed up to three devices to be charged together.
As we could see in the announcement of this charging base, an announcement that was made in September 2017 at the presentation of the iPhone X, this charging base was ideal for charging the iPhone X, the Apple Watch and the second generation AirPods, second generation generation that has taken almost the same time as the announcement of the cancellation of this project on reaching the market.
The main reason why Apple has canceled this project is because it has not managed to make the charging base exceed the quality standards that Apple requires for all its products. Logically, this does not mean that in a few years, as the technology in this field advances further, we cannot see how this project is carried out.
The AirPower charging base was made up of three independent coils, In the market we can find models with two coils at most, which would allow us to charge both the iPhone and the Apple Watch and the AirPods (in its wireless version) together. If you were waiting for its release, for now you will have to settle for the two-coil ones that Belkin currently makes available to us in the Apple Store.
Hopefully now that Apple seems to want to become a service company, it does not neglect hardware design and that this case be something specific in the history of Apple. It is striking that Apple's engineering team has not been able to offer a solution to the heating problem, as long as it was this problem that led to its cancellation.