Still 6 week in apple stores in Europe. Very limited parties pop up with retailers, but practically impossible to catch. If you guys are getting yours in US, I hope something is going to change here as well.
Tough to catch but not impossible. Last week they magically showed up at Proshop in Denmark, so I ordered from there. At first I suspected the green 'in stock' icon was a glitch, given that Proshop was the only one out of 44 listed vendors @ prisjakt claiming to have them, but sure enough the order went through and they shipped the same afternoon.
They had AirPods in stock for about 24 hrs after I ordered, then they ran dry, but right now their site says the ETA for the next batch is July 21. So either Apple has finally started to catch up, or those Danes have a safe full of Apple executives' sex tapes...
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I agree with the lack of button control, would have been pretty awesome if you could take your finger and slide it up/down the stalk to control volume.
Yeah, or maybe some kind of Theremin-style operation. You'd tap an earbud first and then move your hand to a distance of say 30 cm away from the ear to raise the volume to max. Some tiny laser could probably measure the distance. It would work for scrubbing/seeking tracks as well... or video content on Apple TV.
