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Usually these pages convey how capricious the parent is, but this just feels like an arbitrary accounting of things Apple has moved or updated, with a few of them not having replacements.
The expectation should not be for products to last for ever.
And for each product that happened, more products came after that were inspired by it.
I dunno, I mean… sigh.
There's stuff that deserves to be noticed, like the Mac Pro. The category is a beefy machine with expansion slots and the ability to run so hard that you need massive cooling. Even if the chips have become far more efficient, there's still space for running something so overpowered that you need physics to cool it. They just gave up on this space and it made some people sad (including me, even if I'm no longer that demographic, because I was for two decades).
And then there's the thing that just stopped mattering to most people because it wasn't relevant anymore. I remember my father, who used to love making mixed CDs in iTunes, asking why MacOS got worse at burning music CDs. I had to tell him that what he wanted wasn't the thing anymore. I essentially told him that he was "holding it wrong." It felt bad. Was that killed by Apple or did the market just move on? I'd argue the latter.
If you want to drive engagement, Killed By Apple isn't a bad name. I think that's basically the sum of the idea and not much else.
The whole premise of this site is very negative and pessimistic in nature. Why the emphasis on "killed", rather than "innovated" or "created"? The expectation should not be for products to last for ever. And for each product that happened, more products came after that were inspired by it.
The whole premise of this site is very negative and pessimistic in nature. Why the emphasis on "killed", rather than "innovated" or "created"? The expectation should not be for products to last for ever. And for each product that happened, more products came after that were inspired by it.