Airpods

Tianfeng International analyst Ming-Chi Kuo on Monday lowered his forecast for AirPods shipments this year by 30-35 percent to 75 million units-80 million units, meaning he expects Apple's shipments of the product to fall by 10-15 percent year-on-year this year.

Although the AirPods work with the Apple ecosystem, the device can still be paired with Windows.

Apple is releasing a firmware update for the AirPods Pro today, upgrading the previous firmware version 2D15 to 2D27.

Apple will launch the AirPods 3 and end production of the AirPods 2 in the first half of 2021, Tianfeng International analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said in a new report.

Phone explosions are not uncommon in the news, but headphone explosions are rarely heard of, and this allegedly happened with Apple's AirPods.

Apple's production expansion in Vietnam may go beyond shifting the AirPods supply chain from China to Vietnam, with reports suggesting that Apple will use its Vietnam factory to build the long-rumored earphones.

A week after getting the 2D15 firmware update for the AirPods Pro, Apple has finally released the same numbered firmware update (previously 2A364) for the second generation AirPods as well.

The AirPods performed better than Apple thought they would and "it was almost like wildfire how quickly it spread," Wired reported on Saturday, quoting Greg Joswiak, Apple's vice president of product marketing.

Apple is shifting some of its AirPods production to Vietnam this quarter due to a new coronavirus outbreak, Nikkei Asian Review reported on Friday citing people familiar with the matter.

A number of AirPods Pro users have complained recently, saying their headphones aren't as good as they were when they first got them. One of the issues that made waves on the Apple forums was when users noticed a crackling sound coming from their headphones.