The POP charger, a portable station designed to power iPhones and iPads, exceeded its funding goal on Kickstarter earlier this year. Now the company behind the project will have to turn to a Kickstarter competitor to refund that money after Apple reportedly prevented the project from moving forward. In an update posted on Kickstarter, Edison Junior CEO Jamie Siminoff wrote that the company wouldn't be able to create the device because Apple was unwilling to approve products that would use Lightning connectors alongside the recently-deprecated 30-pin connector (initial plans called for two Lightning and two 30-pin connectors). However, Kickstarter "did not have a mechanism for refunding everyone their money," he writes — so a result he...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/20/3789504/kickstarter-charger-pop-turns-to-competitor-to-process-refunds-apple
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