Quick hits: April 2020

AirPods Pro Lite, the third generation is coming?

This is the name of Apple’s new wireless headphones, according to the latest rumors: however, no further details are known.

Apple would already be working on a new model of wireless headphones, the AirPods Pro Lite. The indiscretion, taken up by MacRumors, comes from DigiTimes which, in a report, explains how the Californian company is facing the production problems in China, caused by the Coronavirus: the idea is to strengthen ties with partners in Taiwan to Ensure the release of new generation devices on the market. And the AirPods Pro Lite also appear in the list of these devices, together with Apple Watch, iPad and iMac. The detail on the document - This is the text to which reference is made: ‘Apple, while maintaining partnerships with Chinese suppliers, could make the Taiwanese partners manage the greater production load of the new devices - iPad, Apple Watch, AirPod Pro Lite and iMac -’. Note how DigiTimes, write AirPod (s), without the final S: difficult to understand if it is just a typo or a possible change of name chosen by Apple. It is not the only difficulty, because in the report there are no further details regarding the

Tesler, the computer father of "copy and paste" is dead

A long career between Xerox, Apple, Amazon and Yahoo. Silicon Valley mourns Larry Tesler, the computer scientist who invented the ‘cut’, ‘copy’ and ‘paste’ commands in the seventies, still in use on computers, smartphones and tablets.

Lawrence Gordon Tesler, this is the full name, died at the age of 74, but the news only became public after a while, to respect the family. ‘The inventor of cut, copy and paste, find and replace, and more was former Xerox researcher Larry Tesler. Your work-new wireless headphones and this leaves much room for hypotheses. The model Cupertino would be working on, in fact, could be a cheaper version of the AirPods Pro, which therefore may lack some of the features, such as active noise cancellation or adaptive equalization. If it were really so, however, it is not clear how this model can fit into Apple’s current lineup.