After a two month delay, AirPods are now available to the public, with the headphones hitting the virtual Apple Store shelves last week, and brick and mortar retail stores beginning to stock the miniature devices as of Monday. – Since Apple announced that they needed “a little more time” before AirPods were ready for their customers”, much speculation has been revolving around why the Cupertino tech giant couldn’t uphold their original promised date of sale and the reasoning behind the unforeseen delay.

Many sources, including the Wall Street Journal, claimed that audio issues were the culprit holding back Apple from releasing AirPods to the public however, while I think there may have been a little delay caused by the wireless problems quoted, for the most part I think the majority of the delay was caused by the limited gestures AirPods could perform, with members of the press who were given early samples of AirPods complaining about the functionality the headphones offer.

When the AirPods were first announced, Apple stated that you could double tap an AirPod and it would bring up Siri. While this is a great feature, most of the feedback I heard was that people wanted an easy way to play/pause audio such as on the old inline remote. Now that fresh batches of AirPods have been released to the press, it appears Apple has now added the ability to be tapped once for play/pause and twice for Siri.