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Apple’s long-awaited AirPods will ship in ‘next few weeks’
- Apple revealed the earbuds alongside the iPhone 7, promising an October delivery date, but anxious customers have not been able to buy a set.
- In email obtained by MacRumors, a customer asks Tim Cook where his AirPods are.
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- Customer’s comment: “Give us a release date. I really bought in to the wireless vision you painted….Let us know if it’s a month or 6 months, because then I’ll just buy some other wireless headphones.”
- Tim Cook’s response: “Thanks for your note. Sorry for the delay—we are finalizing them and I anticipate we will begin to ship over the next few weeks.”
Innovative iPhone 8 could shatter sales records
- Apple has big plans for the iPhone 8, claims KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.
- According to Kuo, Apple will be scaling up iPhone production 120-150 million units in the second half of 2017. If true, this would would be well above the 110-120 million units Apple ordered of its bestselling iPhone 6 generation handsets.
- Kuo claims this “unprecedented” demand will be centered around the myriad big improvements Apple has planned for its next-gen iPhone series.
iPhone 8’s glass design will finally bring wireless charging
