Apple abruptly cancels AirPower project

Sometimes you have to fold ’em.

Late Friday, Apple announced that its long-awaited AirPower charging mat product had been abruptly canceled.

“After much effort, we’ve concluded AirPower will not achieve our high standards and we have cancelled the project,” Dan Riccio, Apple’s senior VP of hardware engineering, said in a statement. “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.”

The AirPower project had been delayed for more than a year, despite its having been announced alongside the iPhone X in September 2017. It was expected to debut in 2018.

Stay tuned for additional details as they become available.

Via CNN Business