Since its arrival on the market last December, the stock of AirPods has been very limited around the world, offering an availability of 6 weeks from its launch, an availability that has lasted practically 8 months. But it seems that throughout this month of August, the guys from Cupertino have managed to find the necessary key to finally reduce the supply problems of this device. Almost since its launch, Tim Cook has claimed to do everything possible to reduce this deadline, but it seems that it was not until the beginning of August that he and the manufacturer have managed to reduce the time of manufacture and distribution of the same.
This August it seems that Apple has hit the key, since at the beginning of this month, we informed you of the reduction in the shipping time from 6 weeks to 4, and a couple of weeks later the estimated shipping time has been reduced again to 2-3 weeks. At the latest financial results conference, Tim Cook said they were working to expand the manufacturing capacity of AirPods, a job that finally seems to have paid off.
Although the practically initial availability of AirPods has always been 6 weeks, from time to time and sporadically, physical stores have received the odd AiPod with dropper, AirPods that unsurprisingly have quickly sold out. This reduction in shipping time coincides with the increase in the number of stores that also offer these devices, businesses that had stopped offering them in their catalog after seeing how the expected time for their shipment was still fixed at 6 weeks. Hopefully Apple will continue to reduce shipping time until we can finally buy them overnight, but it seems to me that until we get to that option there is still a long time to go.
This is very good news for those who want airpods and do not want to wait almost 2 months :).