You can still buy a HomePod – two months after it was discontinued

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What you need to know

  • HomePod was discontinued on March 12, but you can still order one today.
  • Black is sold out but there are still white models available at apple.com.

Apple discontinued its chonky HomePod back on March 12 which is a two months ago at this point. Yet, heading over to the online Apple Store shows that you can still order one to be delivered to your door. So long as you want the white one, that is.

Normally Apple products disappear pretty sharpish once they're discontinued, with the company usually pretty good at avoiding having too much inventory sat around. That seems to have gone very wrong with HomePod.

Homepod Mini Review

Homepod Mini Review (Image credit: Stephen Warwick / iMore)

Apple's HomePod mini seems to be selling well, comparatively, thanks to that much more realistic $99 asking price. The $349 HomePod always felt too costly, and sales seem to have backed that up. In fact, one person who bought a new HomePod the week after it was discontinued noticed that it was a unit from the launch stock.

That launch stock was from 2017.

In a market that continues to grow, Apple's diminutive HomePod mini is clearly one of the best wireless speakers on the market. The larger HomePod might well have been as well. It's just a shame so few people got to find that out.

Oliver Haslam
Oliver Haslam
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Oliver Haslam has written about Apple and the wider technology business for more than a decade with bylines on How-To Geek, PC Mag, iDownloadBlog, and many more. He has also been published in print for Macworld, including cover stories. At iMore, Oliver is involved in daily news coverage and, not being short of opinions, has been known to 'explain' those thoughts in more detail, too. Having grown up using PCs and spending far too much money on graphics card and flashy RAM, Oliver switched to the Mac with a G5 iMac and hasn't looked back. Since then he's seen the growth of the smartphone world, backed by iPhone, and new product categories come and go. Current expertise includes iOS, macOS, streaming services, and pretty much anything that has a battery or plugs into a wall. Oliver also covers mobile gaming for iMore, with Apple Arcade a particular focus. He's been gaming since the Atari 2600 days and still struggles to comprehend the fact he can play console quality titles on his pocket computer.