“By the summer season [of 2026], when the corporate had sought to start producing the earbuds, provide chain and software program snags led Apple to postpone the product till 2027,” Gurman writes. By summer season, he means mid-June, greater than two months in the past. These snags haven’t miraculously disappeared simply due to the macOS leak. Gurman says they’re nonetheless being resolved.
Worse, the delay till 2027 doesn’t imply January. It means late 2027. When overlaying the snags in June, Bloomberg stated the camera-equipped AirPods would come out “across the identical time as a next-generation foldable telephone and a contemporary iPhone mannequin that can mark that product’s twentieth anniversary,” which implies the autumn of subsequent yr. And that timing doesn’t seem to have modified.
Apple solely simply launched the AirPods Professional 3 final fall, and it’s not unusual for 2 years to cross between releases. Nonetheless, the entire scenario is somewhat disappointing. Apple has had one of many largest merchandise of subsequent yr completely spoiled, and followers who could have had their hopes up nonetheless have a protracted wait.
