There are many rumors that warned the arrival of new AirPods for this year and in the end they were there, rumors. In this case, KGI again warns that the arrival of some renewed AirPods may arrive during the second half of 2018.
One of the details that remained marked in our retina was during the presentation of the new iPhone models and their AirPower charging base, in which the AirPods or rather the charging box of the AirPods with the new wireless Qi feature was shown.
This presentation of this box increased the rumor about a possible launch of new AirPods earlier than planned, but now the analyst comes to the fore again Ming-Chi Kuo, with a report stating that Apple will release a new version for later and it is possible that that would be the moment chosen to add the inductive charge to the AirPods box.
In any case, the crossing of information has a difficult point to understand, let me explain. Apple, showed that the novelty for the following AirPods would be the box with Qi charging to dispense with the cable and this is something that we all saw at the presentation of the iPhone X and it is totally true, so launching a box for the current AirPods with Qi and then in the second half of the year launching some renewed AirPods can be contradictory and above all counterproductive.
In addition, this type of information can "slow down" sales a bit since we know that something new is yet to come. On the other hand, we must confirm that this is not noticeable at present if we look at the shortage of AirPods that Apple has right now in its stores, a shortage that Ming-Chi Kuo himself argues for the problems that The main battery PCB makes up the supply chain. Do AirPods continue to sell well until they cause product shortages or is this really due to production problems that Apple has? Will Apple launch a Qi charging box before renewing the AirPods or does the renewal consist directly of this Qi box?