Although Apple has a history, there is no shortage of iPhone 4 antenna doors, iPhone 7 burn basebands, butterfly keyboards, etc., which are obviously designed and hardware itself is a problematic product.
But these can all be launched and listed, you have to say that Apple is not aware of it internally... Anyway, I don't believe it.
But there is such a thing, even Apple itself can not look down (may not really be able to deceive themselves), "extremely disappointed" to cut it off the product, but it is very regrettable.
And it's AirPower.
Why do many people feel sorry for it, this has to start from the press conference:
At the press conference, Apple drew a cake for everyone to show a beautiful reverie, that is, on a charging board, the equipment can be charged at will.
And on the iPhone, you can also directly see the charging status of all the charging devices.
Who can refuse this "one-handed" pleasure?
At the time of the press conference, it was said that AirPower would be launched in 2018. But everyone waited, waited, the broccoli was not waiting, only waited for a "bad news":
In March 2019, Apple's senior vice president of hardware engineering said: "After hard work, AirPower still can't meet our high standards, so we canceled the project." ”
At that time, the whole fruit powder circle was a cry of mourning. It can only be said that the apple cake is really too big.
In the two years of silence, although the news of the return of "AirPower" will be exposed from time to time, many of them are empty words.
But the brother found that recently, AirPower is likely to be really "restarting".
Brother this is not a double standard, I have evidence drops -
Because, Apple recently filed a patent called "wireless charging system with multiple power receiving devices."
This patent, in simple terms, is a system based on multi-device wireless charging, and developed. And you can see the charging status of other devices on the main device.
The whole text does not mention what kind of product it is, but the clear-eyed people know at a glance that this is AirPower
Not only that, before this "restart", Apple also launched a new charging program.
You know, the real cause of AirPower's "miscarriage" is the extreme fever phenomenon that has been unable to be solved.
Apple's original vision for AirPower was to be able to charge it in any position. From the original patent design drawings, we can see how "mad" Apple once was.
In order to increase the coverage area, in one board, 16 wireless charging coils were stuffed. Dense phobia ecstasy.
But the ideal is beautiful, but the reality is cruel.
It is not wrong for multiple coils to increase the charging area, but in the actual charging situation, the mutual disturbance phenomenon between the coil and the coil will further aggravate the heat generation of wireless charging.
This is a normal physical phenomenon, and even if Newton came, it would not help.
So the new solution is: prioritize charging of devices.
According to the equipment, this system can intelligently allocate different charging power and adjust the order of charging.
Although I can make you full at the same time, I don't have to queue up, one by one.
This avoids as much as possible, and all coils are charged at high loads, resulting in extreme heating.
Just like the charging logic of the MagSafe external battery, it is to first fully charge the iPhone at 15W at full speed (really overspeed), and then slowly charge yourself.
Maybe this will, some friends do not understand: Apple already has a multi-device charging MagSafe, why bother with AirPower?
In fact, MagSafe solves the problem of accurate positioning of wireless charging. Wireless charging, and even AirPower, is designed to be charged as soon as you put it away.
MagSafe, in essence, is an existing stage and cannot be implemented as a "replacement" for AirPower.
So Apple won't give up on its research on AirPower, and one day in the future, AirPower may actually reappear in front of us.
The eighth brother asked: AirPower can return, can you give me back 3D Touch?
Presumably, there are many friends who are looking forward to 3D Touch like the eighth brother. Like this guy, he has been sticking to the iPhone XS, the last generation of iPhones that support 3D Touch.
At that time, the brother also replied to the friend, saying that 3D Touch is likely to be "resurrected", and today, the brother is just free, come and talk to everyone:
Recently, Apple's new patent called "Pressure Sensor for Portable Electronic Devices" has been titled "New Generation 3D Touch".
This new force sensor, which senses pressure in the form of microcurrents, will theoretically be more accurate and more durable than traditional force sensors.
What's more, because it occupies a smaller footprint, it can also replace the original physical buttons of the device.
One of the reasons for the design is to replace the physical buttons on the existing Apple Watch and give more space to the battery...
But seeing this, I think the fans are confused: you are talking about a new generation of 3D Touch, but why have you been talking about replacing the physical buttons?
Don't worry, brother ji started to say ~
The reason why everyone thinks it is a new generation of 3D Touch is mainly because of this diagram:
In this figure, you can see that this new generation of force sensors can be used on Mac trackpads.
You know, the Force Touch technology now used in the Mac trackpad is not particularly different from 3D Touch in essence.
If you have to say the difference, it is a Force Touch, and one is called 3D Touch.
It also has the function of force induction recognition and re-pressing to open the secondary interface.
Being able to use it seamlessly on the Mac trackpad also shows that what 3D Touch can achieve before, it can also be achieved.
In the patent description, the operation of pressing on the display is also clearly mentioned.
Not only that, but because the new generation of force sensing uses a combination of small modules, it is easy to cover the force sensing area to the entire screen.
Foreign media for this patent, indicating that the future iPad is likely to use this technology.
For now, though, on the iPhone for nearly two years, we won't necessarily see the technology in person.
But obviously, if the iPhone wants to really achieve no holes and no physical buttons in the future. This kind of forward-looking patented technology accumulation is very necessary.
Moreover, it is often necessary to treat other products as "guinea pigs"...
Like last year's Apple Watch Series 7, it has taken a big step towards "no interface":
It eliminated the hidden interface for after-sales reading and writing Apple Watch device information and switched to a new wireless data transmission backup.
The S7 is also Apple's first product without an interface in a sense.
Then we can also come to a "prediction": since the 2018 Apple Watch Series 4, the first launch equipped with LTPO technology, was only late on the iPhone 3 years later.
Then we are likely to see iPhones without charging ports in the next three years.