Apple just confirmed once and for all that AirPower will never come out

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Enlarge / AirPower was announced at an Apple keynote back in 2017. (credit: Valentina Palladino)

Apple has canceled its AirPower wireless charging mat product, according to an email sent by an executive from the company to TechCrunch. The product had seen repeated delays due to technical challenges.

AirPower was introduced alongside the iPhone X and Apple Watch Series 3 in the company's first event at the Steve Jobs Theater, in September of 2017. Apple said it would be a wireless charging mat that could simultaneously charge your iPhone, your Apple Watch, and your AirPods, regardless of where you placed them on the mat. At the time, AirPods could not be wirelessly charged, but Apple just released a version of the AirPods' charging case that supports the feature.

As the mat failed to arrive in 2018, reports and speculation abounded that Apple was facing serious technical challenges in developing the product. Apple initially planned to launch the product by June 2018, but the company delayed it to September. When the product didn't appear then, Apple bloggers revealed a little more inside info: AirPower's design, which incorporated overlapping charging coils, was prone to overheating. Some engineers within Apple reportedly believed they could solve this problem, but as time went on, those working on the project inside the company became less optimistic.

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