Nearly a year after its announcement, Apple charger may be ready to hit market

At its special product event in September, Apple promised that the new iPhone 8 and X will be able to be charged with an upcoming wireless charger called AirPower.

Apple CEO Tim Cook promised AirPower will “intelligently work together and communicate with each other to manage the charging through one more efficient charging system.”

Since that announcement nearly a year ago, the AirPower has neither been announced nor been spoken by Apple publicly. But the nearforgotten wireless charger may finally been on sale in September, according to Bloomberg.

Apple engineers working on the AirPower hoped to get the product to the market by June but now have their eyes set for September — around when Apple usually hold its special product event every year — according to Bloomberg.

The AirPower faced delays due to concerns over overheating and dealing with the product’s complex circuitry, according to Bloomberg. The product is expected to charge up to three Apple products simultaneously, such as an iPhone, Apple Watch and the AirPods wireless earphones.

Because of Apple’s vision to allow multiple products to charge at the same time, the AirPower is packed with multiple charging sensors which can adapt to all three Apple devices which need different charging components, making it an engineering challenge, according to Bloomberg.

Apple’s internal AirPower delay is only the latest of many product delays the Cupertino tech giant faced under Cook’s tenure. Under predecessor and founder Steve Jobs, all products launched by Apple shipped usually a week after the announcement.

Both the AirPod and the HomePod — Apple’s two latest major hardware products — faced delays for several months. The time between Apple’s announcement of a new or updated product to its shipping dates have increased under Cook as CEO to 23 days, whereas it was only 11 days under Jobs, according to the Wall Street Journal in January. who has often been a swing vote on many Court decisions, wrote a dissenting opinion on the ruling saying “it places undue restrictions on the lawful and necessary enforcement powers exercised not only by the federal government, but also by law enforcement in every state and locality throughout the nation.”