By the time they do have them in January (supposing its true) many people will have bought something else rather than disappoint.
Well, there's hope that the site is wrong, because they made an error. They refer to the Airpods as a BlueTooth device, which they are not. Hopefully they have their timescale wrong too. I find it difficult to believe that Apple won't be pushing for the holiday sales, but I was wrong in thinking that they would get them out in October, as planned.