Monday, December 24, 2012

Kickstarter charging station POP back on after Apple changes Lightning accessory rules

POP charging station

Last week we reported that a crowdfunded charging station called POP could be back on track thanks to a change in Apple's accessory guidelines, and now the company behind the device has confirmed it will be moving forward with production. In a post on the product's Kickstarter page, Edison Junior CEO Jamie Simonoff writes that "Based on Apple's change we can make POP the way we had promised and the project is back on," promising another update with estimated shipping dates sometime in the next 10 days.


Apple changed its own guidelines last week


The plight of the POP first came to light last week. The charging station had originally been envisioned as an all-in-one product that could charge devices via USB, Lightning, and Apple's legacy...


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