Top 10 Most Discussed MacRumors Stories of 2019: AirPower Canceled, Apple Card Launches, and More

Can you do an equivalent article for the 2010's

Can you do an equivalent article for the 2010's

Here is all-time: https://forums.macrumors.com/forums/macrumors-com-news-discussion.4/?order=reply_count&direction=desc

Even with the failed AirPower project I think that 2019 was a really good year for Apple :)

This kind of statistic is heavily influenced by how many articles Macrumors publishes on a specific topic and how close time-wise these multiple articles are published. Other things like time of the day (and week) will also affect the results.

It seems like there was an article every week reminding us AirPower wasn‘t shipping yet but still nobody could restrain themselves from commenting about Apple not delivering a charging mat that they thought was too expensive and unnecessary...

The great AirPower whinge of ‘18/‘19 was truly something to behold.

The people have spoken - more tech stuff, less entertainment stuff!

AirPower wasn’t Apple’s finest hour.

That’s because Jim, it was only mentioned for a minute during the keynote. ?

Seriously though, what’s the big deal? Do you think Apple is the first company to cancel a product because they couldn’t successfully launch it due to XYZ reason(s)? It’s not like they had this marketed for quite some time, it was mentioned briefly during a keynote. Who cares that they didn’t release it, the fact that they owned up to it and didn’t release a product that potentially could pose problems, says more about the company itself. I mean, not to pick on Samsung, but they have a lengthy history of releasing products that have been flawed and/or half-baked <—which transcends into damaging the reputation.

If its about "inability to meet their own high standards" how come they support the tech by producing wireless charging capable devices. That's a little bit confusing.

This is confusing. Apple allows devices, such as external drives, to be connected to the lighting port on an iphone 11, yet they don't make the devices that they allow to be connected.

Because that kind of statement is like saying that the tech is not up to their standard. If its about wattage it would still make no sense because if I am not mistaken iPhone only shipped with 5watts and Qi standard starts at 5watts and according to Wikipedia future extension of the standard is up to 60watts. Basically they are contented with slow charging of a 5watts charger.

You may be reading more into this than was meant by the original statement from Apple.

If the rumor about iPhone without ports comes to life in the future then having no wireless charger of their own is a little bit awkward.

I don't buy this rumor, but that's me.

In March 2019, Apple's hardware engineering chief Dan Riccio finally came out and said the AirPower was canceled due to the product's inability to meet its high standards.

It was probably for the best that Apple canceled AirPower than releasing a half-baked product, but it is still pretty embarrassing.

I sometimes wished they would have canceled iOS 13 and tvOS 13 and worked on it for a little while longer.

Having read so many articles over the past few years, I thought there would have been more PRSI stories in the top 10 but I am glad to see the most popular stories were mainly product related.

The real top story is macrumors being 20 years old next month.

The AirPower story was most unique in that apple as I can remember never cancelled a project publicly.