Two hypotheses to explain the delay of Apple AirPods headphones

Apple AirPods know how to wait.
Presented last September during the annual back-to-school keynote, these
new headphones to the apple had recently been
announced for a probable arrival in November. But news
data comescomplicate the schedule. In fact, two
hypotheses are made concerning the cause of the delay in commercialization of this
helmet, the first indicates atechnical problem related to
Bluetooth, the second,difficulties on the chains of
fabrication:

According to Apple's latest report, Airpods need a little more
time before it can reach the hands of those interested, without however
give specific reasons.

But The Wall Street Journal, based on the statements of a source close to the
companies by Tim Cook, citetechnical complications. In
Indeed, on classic wireless headphones, the Bluetooth signal is transmitted to
one of the two headphones, which retransmits the information to the other. In the case
AirPods, the source sends the signal to each earphone. It is therefore necessary
that Apple maintains perfect synchronization of reception, under penalty of
create sound distortion, and this is obviously not a small
affair.

In addition to this, the problem of losing one of the headphones or the
dead battery of one of the two earbuds would also still be
the study.

According to the blogger specializing in the Cupertino company,John
Gruber, it would be very surprising if Apple is still solving problems
design and design issues. According to him, Tim Cook's company would be
insteadslowed down by an unforeseen event encountered on the channels of
fabrication, the technical problems cited above probably having
been resolved a long time ago.

Still, these AirPods remain absent from the shelves for subscribers in
Apple Store. And the hypotheses are also varied on their implementation date.
sale. Tim Cook talks about acommercialization in the coming
weeks. Analysts fromBarclaysare counting on a
going into production in December only, while the
Chinese specialists inEconomic Dailys Newsthink of a
launch in early 2017.

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