Apple retailer claims 2-3 month delay for W1-equipped BeatsX
Apple's AirPods aren't the only W1 wireless chip product having problems -- a customer who pre-ordered the the BeatsX In-Ear Headphones has been informed that there will be at least a 2-3 month delay on shipping.
An AppleInsider reader was informed by authorized Apple reseller B&H that Beats still does not exactly know when they will ship the item. No additional detail was provided.
The BeatsX In-Ear Headphones utilize Apple's W1 chip, the same as the oft-delayed Apple AirPods. Apple's custom W1 wireless chip, allows for fast pairing, and a robust connection between an audio player and the audio device. The currently shipping PowerBeats 3 headphone includes the W1.
It is not clear what the problems with the AirPods, and the BeatsX are. One report from Friday claimed that continued delays for Apple's AirPods headphones are reportedly related to troubles in syncing audio between the two separate earpieces. However, that report was refuted by one later in the same day postulating that the issue was related to building the technology at scale.
In November, the same retailer claimed that the BeatsX would ship in December. Around the same time, Fry's noted a Dec. 5 ship date.
An AppleInsider reader was informed by authorized Apple reseller B&H that Beats still does not exactly know when they will ship the item. No additional detail was provided.
The BeatsX In-Ear Headphones utilize Apple's W1 chip, the same as the oft-delayed Apple AirPods. Apple's custom W1 wireless chip, allows for fast pairing, and a robust connection between an audio player and the audio device. The currently shipping PowerBeats 3 headphone includes the W1.
It is not clear what the problems with the AirPods, and the BeatsX are. One report from Friday claimed that continued delays for Apple's AirPods headphones are reportedly related to troubles in syncing audio between the two separate earpieces. However, that report was refuted by one later in the same day postulating that the issue was related to building the technology at scale.
In November, the same retailer claimed that the BeatsX would ship in December. Around the same time, Fry's noted a Dec. 5 ship date.
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They have been delayed exactly once up till now, how is that oft ?
What's with all the doom and gloom its a pair of headphones. People are making out that this is a catastrophic failure, as usual they are working till they are as near to their idea of perfect as they can. Everyone who has tried a pair has said they work great, so this is almost certainly a production problem. Companies who do not have to produce millions of anything to not be called out for creating a deliberate shortage and are willing to use their end users as testers obviously don't have this problem.
Also, missing the Christmas holiday for a affordably priced gift/accessory like this is a massive failure of management. It is very telling.
The problems are in mass manufacturing. Period.
These days there are parts of Apple that work well and parts that don't.
The parts that work well seem to be the ones involving the underlying technology -- the engineering parts of the company. The teams that work on things like Swift, iOS, macOS, and the A-series SOCs all appear to be working fine. I presume W1 falls more into that part of the company.
The part of the company that seems more dysfunctional is the part that involves taking technology and turning it into a product that can be mass produced and sold.
Interestingly, I just re-watched the Jobs movie where he (in the movie at least) equated his NeXT computer to SkyLab -- both of which were sent up before the engineering was complete. SkyLab thus came crashing down. The NeXT computer at least did finally get released. But, in the movie Jobs admitted that he thought that the engineering would catch up to the marketing hype prior to the projected release date. It didn't. And Jobs ended up with a PC that was unsellable.
http://www.apple.com/shop/product/MMEF2AM/A/airpods