Quirky Ohm Bluetooth Speaker/Qi Charger Set
- A Bluetooth speaker that charges wirelessly via an (included) Qi charger
- The charger works with other Qi-compatible devices including the new iPhones and a bunch of Android phones
- The speaker sounds “as good as a Jambox” according to those in the office who tested it
- Wireless charging still amazes us – how does it work??
- Model: POHMM-WH01 (There’s something to be said for a model number that is both bizarre and semi-sensical, because it allows you to remember it without copying and pasting, kind of like those stupid confirmation codes some websites give that are a combination of real, random words. Oh wait …)
Aligning Our Qi
You know that feeling when something goes your way and you feel really smart about it? Even if you had almost nothing to do with it? That’s how we feel about our purchase of these Bluetooth speaker / Qi wireless chargers. A few weeks after we bought a truckload of them, Apple announced that the iPhone 8 and 10 would be compatible with Qi chargers.
We nailed it.
So we can sell a wireless charger for the new iPhones (which start arriving today) and other Qi-compatible devices as well as a pretty decent Bluetooth speaker for cheaper than a regular Bluetooth speaker alone. We feel like a golfer who won a tournament because our opponent shanked it on the playoff hole.
Sure, we had no idea whether Qi chargers would catch on. It seemed a little rocky whether or not it would become the standard, and everybody knew that Apple would release their own proprietary chargers. But then … they didn’t. And we had already secured this deal. So now we can sell them for way cheaper than we would have been able to if we had made this deal after the Apple announcement. Everybody wins.
Well, everybody wins except the poor sucker who sold these to us. He could have hoarded these speaker/chargers like so many Beanie Babies and watched their value skyrocket (unlike so many Beanie Babies). But markets are volatile. Prices change overnight. And there’s no way to predict what will happen — unless you’re super smart like us.
Of course, we don’t crow as much about our losses. Like your friend who only tells you when they “kill it” in Atlantic City, we’ve had our fair share of humiliating investment failures that we keep quiet. (Our algorithms told us the price of candy corn was set to double!)
But today we win and we’re not afraid to sing it from the proverbial rooftops. That is, until the sale tanks. Then we’ll descend shamefaced from the proverbial rooftops.
