This list can't be serious. Is there single thing on this list that was genuinely killed by Apple, and not just outdated or moved to be a part of other software?
Killed by Apple
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#42Some of these are like "Find My Friends" which is still a thing, but like the website mentions, was just folded into the Find My app. It's not like Google killing popular services like Reader or trying and failing to get another messaging app off the ground
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#43A more interesting list of products that Apple still supports in someway or there other: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102772
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#44I think the website would benefit of listing the lifespan regarding support rather than when it stop selling the device. Right now, it lists the Homepod 1st Gen had a lifespan of 3 years, but mine is still receiving updates regularly.
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#45Apple killed its soul. I was a happy Apple user around the time of the Apple ][. From there it went downhill.
I dunno, I hated how the Apple ][ forced a case on you. Had more choice before.
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#46Apple killed its soul. I was a happy Apple user around the time of the Apple ][. From there it went downhill.
The market seems to think otherwise, though?
I'm surprised so many people are ok with not owning the device they paid for, and with being nannied by Apple all the time.
But I know, I'm not the target audience anymore.
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#47> Lightning Connector
Good. Apple users are a minority in my local community, yet the vast majority of broken charging ports over the years have been Lightning. Some micro-USB, and zero USB-C problems so far.
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#48I 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…
> widest
wider sure, but widest?
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#49that is perhaps the Nobel Prize in Clickbait Titles winner for 2026, and it's only May. Well done (not kidding...it's clever)
It's a riff on https://killedbygoogle.com/
But killing a service is something completely different then discontinueing hardware or interface standards. A lot here is still well supported.
This page could have used some heavy editing after asking the LLM to compile all stuff from wikipedia.
Lost it at the Lightning listing, which apple still first party even:
https://www.apple.com/shop/product/muqw3am/a/lightning-to-us...
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#50This list can't be serious. Is there single thing on this list that was genuinely killed by Apple, and not just outdated or moved to be a part of other software?
iphone mini. sure you could argue nobody wants it.
i agree most other things there were just old, renamed, folded into sth else or obsolete etc.