Apple’s AirPods have now officially joined the NES Classic and Hatchimals as the high demand, hardest to get your hands on, marked up outrageously on eBay, must have gifts of the season.
Apple added AirPods to their personal shopper list so you can check stock at your local Apple Stores. But iStockNow is showing zero stock. Anywhere. And Apple is showing first availability as February 13th.
Scorchingly hot product.
I don’t deny that they are hot, but like the NES Classic I think this may be more of a side effect of low stock.
clearly Apple intentionally caused the manufacturing problems in order to create an artificial constraint and subsequent demand in order to generate headlines rather than quarterly profits.
/s (but what you can expect to see on MR and AI)
Thanks to this post I picked up my AirPods today (using istocknow.com)