“If you’ve been waiting for Apple’s AirPod wireless headphones to go on sale, you’re going to have to wait a little longer,” Matthew Panzarino reports for TechCrunch.
“‘The early response to AirPods has been incredible. We don’t believe in shipping a product before it’s ready, and we need a little more time before AirPods are ready for our customers,’ an Apple spokesperson told TechCrunch,” Panzarino reports. “Apple did not say whether hardware or software updates are what is at the heart of the delay.”
Panzarino reports, “My experiences with the AirPods have been very positive this far but the pre-production units that were given out to press are not without their foibles and bugs.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Ah, the joys of new technology! Yes, there’s a lot of technology going on in those little buggers, so best to get it all working properly and in harmony before shipping*.
*unlike Samsung.
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