Apple’s AirPods are now available to order and will be delivered by December 22nd.
Apple’s AirPods were first unveiled alongside the iPhone 7/Plus and were initially set to be released in late October.
Unfortunately, the launch was delayed by Apple for unexplained reason(s). Despite rampant speculation that Apple would miss Christmas, it looks like they made it – barely!
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: So, get busy returning those substitute earphones and get your AirPods orders in ASAP!
Got ’em! Wasn’t sure they were going to make it but glad they did. Now I wonder when they’ll sell out?
sold out
Shipment 1
Ships: 4 weeks
Delivers: Jan 12 by Free 2 Business Day Shipping
And I notice BeatsX are pushed back from Autumn to February 2017.
Something seriously wrong is happening at Apple if they can’t get their products into people’s hands for the biggest holiday shopping season of the year.
I’ve been an Apple fan for the past 10 years, but even I cannot ignore the huge fail that is happening at every turn…
Oops – delivery date has already slipped to Dec. 29th 🙁
Yeah, I just noticed that in the e-mail confirmation. Damn. 🙁
Yep date ship date has already slipped past Christmas so another holiday miss smfh.
You don’t get the title of “operations genius” if you’re a retailer and basically don’t have product and miss the biggest shopping season of the year.
What part of “The wireless headphones will be available in stores next week.” do you not understand???
How fast will those “in store” stocks sell out? Hours? Minutes? Seconds? Stock at Apple stores has always sold out faster than the online stores.
Do you want to go to the store every day hoping to get one of the half dozen or so that each store (or maybe even just the biggest stores) gets? (Or maybe you could just camp out overnight to be assured to get one of those rare sets just in case that store actually does get delivery of stock.)
Tell you what – go to your nearest Apple store next week and see if you can get a pair, then get back to us.
Chill out, AustinX. Anyone who wants AirPods will still end up buying them, even if they have to wait until after Christmas. You are way too worried about AirPods and way too quick to take shots at Tim Cook.
Or Santa can just put AirPod I.O.U.s in nicely wrapped packages under the tree. 🙂
Got 2
Nope, they missed it again. Delivery is past Christmas. Duhhhh!
Again, what part of “The wireless headphones will be available in stores next week.” do you not understand???
What part of “will be delivered by December 22nd” don’t you understand, Amigo? Do I have to translate it all to Mexican for you?
Come on, peterblood71! If you are the real one and not some anonymous catfisher, then you know that the initial delivery date for any new Apple product is only valid for minutes. There is a thing called supply and demand, and Apple’s suppliers cannot suddenly crap out 10 or 20 million units to Apple’s exacting standards. That’s life.
Everyone would be a lot better off if they would ease up on the link between Christmas and commercialism. Enjoy being with family and friends, assist other people who could use a helping hand, and recharge yourself for the new year to come.
And relax a little – the Apple AirPod product was announced fairly recently will soon be available in volume for consumers. You did without it until now, and a few more weeks won’t hurt anything. It is called “patience.” You can also practice “anticipation” while you are at it. In the old days, it used to take four to six weeks to receive any order…
4 weeks shipping time on the US Apple website. Very few people are going to have these in time for Xmas.
Apple needs to whip itself back into shape, the regularity that this stuff happens is just embarrassing.
DAMMIT – didn’t see this until now. Not shipping until 12 Jan 2017. On the bright side should be the same time I get my 27″ LG Monitor.
Oh ye idiots of little faith, put it in Trump and see where that will get you.
No! No! No!
I am not a Trump supporter by any means. But I do not want to see any political crap on this forum from either direction. This particular article does not even have any tenuous links to politics. So can the crap, breeze. The last thing that we need around here is to get botty and Fwhatever and their ilk excited and vocal.
Damn, Beats X are delayed until February. I figured they were just holding back on the Beats X until the Airpods came out. But February? Jeez Louise!
http://www.apple.com/shop/product/MMEF2AM/A/airpods
Shipping in 4 weeks!?!?!?!
AGAIN, WHY TIM COOK NEEDS TO BE REPLACED!!!!
Missed ANOTHER Christmas revenue stream.. clearly the guy does not get it and doesn’t know to effectively do his job.
FAIL!
Sign this to help bring awareness to the board to replace him.
https://www.change.org/p/apple-board-of-directors-remove-tim-cook-as-ceo-of-apple
Once again, how does the product miss Christmas when Apple has announced that “The wireless headphones will be available in stores next week”? What part of that do you not understand???
I see that just like a typical Drumpf supporter, you suffer from selective comprehension. Get you head out of your ass and read the whole article, dumbf*ck.
typical crass libsh*t
head to a store next week and let me know how that goes for you
Just like Santa in “Arthur Christmas”, if you miss just one child the project is a failure.
You’re an idiot
Hell no.
At 10:18am (CST) delivery date had already slipped to Jan, 12. 🙁
Oh you poor Yanks. Plenty for sale in Great Britain with immediate shipping. Believe it or not you’re not the only country in the world that Apple supplies.
whats Great Britain – 😉
Thanks for the headsup, MDN! Mine are set to arrive 12/21.
FWIW, since no-one knows how many are shipping by any given delivery date, there’s no way of knowing if Tim and the operations team are genius or not. One thing we can agree on is that new Apple products ship at a scale far beyond what most manufacturers would count as a fully mature market. The challenges they overcome must be hard to believe.
Interesting. You claim to be getting yours before Apple’s stated commitment. Interesting.
These items have been in development for well over a year — likely significantly longer than that. They were announced almost three months ago. Given all that time Apple could have easily gotten their act together on being able to deliver this product before now. These should have been shipping in October and absolutely no later than Black Friday or Cyber Monday. Shipment dates this afternoon stretching well into January makes people believe that what started with the iMac and Mac Pro years ago is just the norm for Apple now.
(Remember the days of “paper launches” by ATI and Nvidia years ago and everyone knew that announced products would not be shipping in volume for another six months after the announcement? Well, that’s what people are starting to think about Apple.)
No reason for you to trust the image, but here’s a screencap of my order confirmation:
. Dec 21. Suck it.
Neither you nor I has any idea how many that Apple is shipping out for delivery on Dec 21. It could be 10 or 10,000 or 1,000,000.
Would you rather they simply waited until they had 10 million on warehouse shelves first? Then zero would’ve shipped before Xmas.
At least this way, some of us – and maybe very many of us – will probably get them in before Christmas day.
You can think what you want about paper launches. And you might indeed be right. But you don’t actually know. So complaining seems almost as much a waste of electrons as this reply to you.
I’ve placed my order. I may cancel it if I can find them in store here in Poland at a reseller. They (Apple) charge about a $19 premium here over the US.
On the operations side I’d like to see Apple be a bit more open and proud of the work they do. Their uber secrecy has already been severely eroded by leaks. Their failure to deliver on numerous occasions makes it look more like they are hiding things than trying to surprise and delight customers.
Patients guys.
Bet your mum(s) still waiting for you to take out the garbage that you promised a hundred or so times…
Haha. You took the bait. Go and buy a map and you’ll see that there’s a lot more to the world than a Trump ruled USA!