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holy moly hot news in the tech world Apple officially cancels the air power product citing inability to meet its high standards for hardware nobody saw this coming the air power mat has become like a meme in the tech community if you follow any tech enthusiasts on Twitter Apple enthusiasts and so on people have been talking about this air power mat and how it was announced like two years ago never got released then the wireless ear pods come out and everyone's saying that air power mats gotta be closed then I'm doing an air pod video and on the backside of the wireless charge case it shows the air power mat references the air power mat and now this officially cancelled they'll sell you the wireless air pods wireless charging air pods but they won't sell you the mat to charge it after all apparently this product is just too difficult to engineer to manufacture to release and now Apple has officially cancelled it as far as I know I mean I can't recall a moment where Apple has canceled a product they've announced before it was released that obviously this is not an iPhone it's not a high profile product it kind of became a high profile product after time and then just as people were hyped up to receive it it gets cancelled very unusual for Apple here's the official statement after much effort we've concluded air power will not achieve our high standards and we've canceled the project we apologize to those customers who are looking forward to this launch we continue to believe that the future is Wireless and we are committed to push the wireless experience forward that was said by Apple's senior vice president of hardware engineering dan Rickey oh wow I know this might not seem like a big deal to you but for a company like Apple they're all about appearances they just had an event recently where they marched out every celebrity on planet Earth it's all about the way that things are looked and cancelling a product is never a good look why can't the the biggest company in the world make a wireless charging mat I mean making products is obvious difficult and this is one of those circumstances almost like a Kickstarter circumstance where they're like show you the thing and they're like one day we will make it now the difference being that Apple is such a well-established company that when they put the message out you thought they really could deliver it but it turns out that heat is an issue and when you pile together you know these three separate charging areas on one singular wireless charging surface you get an issue with heat and apparently it's the heat that eventually spelled the end for this particular device there was the potential for the devices that were on it to also overheat themselves and Apple didn't want to do that so you kind of have to commend them for not just releasing it anyways like for example the keyboards on the Mac books that for whatever reason haven't been changed yet and keep getting released so I'm glad people didn't spend a boatload of money receiving these only to find out they were gonna cook their devices well there's two ways to look at this right you could say that Apple has changed for the better or for the worse you could say they're more transparent they're letting you know what's going on it's not you know they're not locking the door here they're letting you and they're saying hey we made a mistake and you have to appreciate that or you could look at it in another way and say they're not who they used to be the perfectionist that they used to be that maybe they're overstepping over-promising and then not being able to deliver why why is that the case they obviously have the talent is it a strategic problem has their relationship with the supply chain changed so there's a couple different perspectives you can have there I'm just glad it's not a fiasco where people are going to pay for it and then customers are going to suffer I get it some people might have been waiting for it but the damage at this point is at least fairly minimal no one has spent money on a product that's subpar but nonetheless no one saw this coming there's been all kinds of jokes on social media and now we have an answer it's not just delayed anymore it's simply not happening and yes Apple has said that they are not giving up on Wireless they still believe that wireless charging is the future but they haven't mentioned some other product they haven't mentioned like a singular wireless charge pad every other manufacturer in the world has one of those at this point and of course you can pick one up for a couple of dollars on Amazon practically so you would assume Apple could at least deliver that nonetheless apparently they have very high standards I was surprised to find out this news I'm sure you are as well I guess the jokes can stop now or they can accelerate who knows there's probably plenty of memes left to be had in the tech universe when it comes to Apple's air power there you have it officially canceled don't wait for it now's the time if you're a super Apple fan and you were waiting for this thing before going Wireless you can now officially go to Amazon and spend a lot less money maybe 20 bucks and get a decent wireless charger just make sure it's Qi compatible it'll work with your iPhone and it'll work with your brand-new wireless charging air pods there you have it air power our IP