After facing the danger of having its plug pulled by Apple regulations, the POP charger is back online.
In an email to investors earlier this week, Jamie Siminoff, a co-founder of the Kickstarter POP charger project, let them know that the project, which was killed off last week due to Apple's strict rules for Made for iPhone, iPad and iPod devices, was back online after the tech giant had a change of heart.
The POP charger is an electrical charger that can charge multiple devices simultaneously.
After raising $139,170 in startup capital from 1,000 financial supporters to get the mobile device charger underway, Kickstarter and Siminoff announced the project was dead on Thursday after Apple declined to approve the product.
The reason? Apple was not willing to give its approval to a product which used the Lightning charger alongside any other charger. Apple holding control over the pins and authentication hardware in Lightning connectors marketed, according to Apple Insider.
However, after the company received many complaints from users when the news broke out of the killing of the project, Apple decided to revisit their previous decision.
Siminoff wrote in his email that Apple's decision was "an incredible turn of events for us."
"We never could have imagined that we would be able to change Apple's rules," Siminoff wrote.
"Based on Apple's change we can make POP the way we had promised and the project is back on. We will not be processing refunds and are going full speed ahead to produce and deliver the product to you ASAP," he added.