Home Pod Sells Out On Launch Day

Apple’s HomePod officially goes on sale today, but anyone expecting to walk into an Apple store and buy one may be out of luck.

According to MediaPost, Apple’s site and Apple stores checked in multiple cities are currently sold out of the device, Apple’s relatively late entry into the smart speaker market.

A HomePod ordered today won’t be delivered until Feb. 22 at the earliest, according to the Apple site, though those who preordered are expected to receive them earlier.

However, BestBuy may have them with its website stating the devices ‘should be ready for pickup Friday.’

Apple significantly trails Amazon’s Echo and Google’s Home lines of smart speakers entering the market, but Apple put a high emphasis on speaker sound quality.

“HomePod is a magical new music experience from Apple,” stated Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing in. “It brings advanced audio technologies like beam-forming tweeters, a high-excursion woofer and automatic spatial awareness, together with the entire Apple Music catalog and the latest Siri intelligence, in a simple, beautiful design that is so much fun to use.”