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Re: Killed by Apple

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Post by azan_ »

andrewmutz wrote: post #8

Hacker news holds Apple and Google to different standards, so I doubt this post will get much traction. (I'm still angry about how I must use an iPhone if I want to be able to text high quality video to people I don't know very well)

Well, even looking at the list it's clear that there's huge difference between things killed by apple and by google. E.g. there's lots of hardware for which there's just no genuine market, e.g. iPod touch. I'm surprised it was killed only in 2022. Lots of software was just incorporated into other products. It's completely different compared with what google does.

Re: Killed by Apple

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Post by benoau »

I think this conflates "old" with "killed". Most of the stuff is just old.

I would say the Mac Pro was "killed", left to languish after the trashcan model, then isolated from third party GPUs when it finally got upgraded to Apple Silicon, and then left to languish again until the lack of sales justified killing it.

Rosetta 2 will certainly deserve a spot on this list next year when they start yeeting it, an amazing piece of technology that has made Apple Silicon-era Macs uniquely capable of executing the widest range of software.

Re: Killed by Apple

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Post by someguyiguess »

hatsix wrote: post #6
bel8 wrote: post #2

Many of them are hardware which is understandable. It would be nice, but perhaps hard to do, to have a list of "sherlocked" apps and services.

Or acquisitions where they immediately killed the product... RIP FingerWorks TouchStream

I've never heard of that product but man, that's an... unfortunate name.

Re: Killed by Apple

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Post by benoau »

jmye wrote: post #24
mholm wrote: post #11

This has a very different feel than similar pages for other companies. Hardware is still supported if it's within age, most of the software features are just elsewhere and renamed, and some of it is just previous generations of products they currently sell? 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…

I read some of it as interesting "quick fails" - Apple's BNPL, for instance - I see why they would have tried, and it's interesting that they pivoted relatively quickly out of it. Some of the text is silly sour grapes, but it always will be with editorial content about tech products.

BNPL is kind of back for apps subscriptions, but not in the US for some reason.

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/04/27/app-store-monthly-subsc...

Re: Killed by Apple

#39

Post by butlike »

I just want to say Rosetta is still around, it's just not PPC -> Intel anymore. Required for Serato DJ to work as recently as a year or so ago.

Re: Killed by Apple

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Post by jm4 »

benoau wrote: post #33

I think this conflates "old" with "killed". Most of the stuff is just old. I would say the Mac Pro was "killed", left to languish after the trashcan model, then isolated from third party GPUs when it finally got upgraded to Apple Silicon, and then left to languish again until the lack of sales justified killing it. Rosetta 2 will certainly deserve a spot on this list next year when they start yeeting it, an amazing p…

Agreed. Aside from obsolete hardware that was replaced with newer products, there isn’t really anything on this list that I miss except for HyperCard. Just about everything worthwhile became another product or got rolled into something else.
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